The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading...

Leaders of a Southern California Indian tribe are meeting with sheriff’s deputies to calm tensions over the killings of three people on the reservation.

The political fortunes of Democrats down South once were so bad that people openly joked even Jesus Christ would lose by a double-digit margin if he ran for office on...

Stocks that are moving substantially or trading heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq:

We cannot go back in time and stick a thermometer in the early universe, but astronomers have done the next best thing, using an indirect technique to find out what the...

The health benefits of sex extend well beyond the bedroom. Turns out sex is good for you in ways you may never have imagined.

A judge says he will release a man who was jailed last week for failing to make sure his daughter earned her high school equivalency diploma.

There’s a limit to how far John McCain will go to win over young voters. Wearing a dress on national television crosses that line.

The nation’s largest single immigration raid, resulting in nearly 400 arrests earlier this week, violated the constitutional rights of workers at a meatpacking...

Rice futures sank to a six-week low Friday, falling for a fifth day on hopes that exports from Pakistan and Japan will ease fears of a shortage of the staple consumed...

Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for his part in a fake-check scheme.

Texas mayors and business leaders have filed a class-action lawsuit to stop construction of the U.S.-Mexico border fence.

Oil prices held on to most of their gains Friday after Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said his country boosted production by 300,000 barrels per day last week in...

Health regulators reiterated their warning Friday that organ transplant drugs from Roche and Novartis can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant...

The Energy Department says it has canceled oil shipments into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning in July when the current purchase contract expires.

The Energy Department says it has canceled oil shipments into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning in July when the current purchase contract expires.

Barack Obama is criticizing Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for “dishonest and divisive” attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential...

The man who was the nation’s first elected black governor is ending his term as mayor of Richmond, Va.

Barack Obama has called President Bush’s comments on appeasement “exactly the kind of appalling attack that’s divided our country and alienates us...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says financial markets are “considerably calmer” now than they were two months ago. He predicts the economy will be...