A suspect in the slaying of the leader of the San Francisco Hells Angels motorcycle gang a month ago surprised police in this small city in Oklahoma by turning himself...

Wall Street has turned around sharply with stock index futures shooting higher in response to an emergency half-point interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve has ordered an emergency interest rate cut of a half a percentage point to cope with the worst financial crisis since the 1929 stock market crash.

A prolonged recession and a tight credit market would cripple New Orleans’ still-fragile recovery from Hurricane Katrina, delaying or eliminating road work, new...

Wall Street looked set to plunge along with markets across the world on Wednesday as fears about the growing financial crisis and fears of a global recession continued...

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The nation’s first plant with the capacity to recycle used transformer oil opened this week in Canton, bringing some coveted green jobs to northeast Ohio.

A study on bullet fragmentation begun over concern about lead in hunter-harvested deer has found fragments spread farther than most hunters might expect, Minnesota...

President Bush plans to sign into law on Wednesday a bill allowing civilian U.S. nuclear trade with India.

A Milwaukee couple is still waiting for answers after their baby boy died in foster care last week _ two days after being removed with three other children from their...

It was only midmorning on the first day of absentee voting, but 200 people had already shown up to cast their ballots at the clerk’s office in Bernalillo County,...

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Norbert has strengthened to a Category 3 storm in the Pacific Ocean.

Congressional investigators are looking at a federal government agency’s quick approvals for oil and gas drilling in Utah, a development applauded by...

State regulators say a Willie Horton-style campaign ad that suggested the first black member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court freed a child molester played so loose with...

Rebel groups and government-armed militias using child soldiers in the Philippines and 16 other strife-torn countries face prosecution in the United States under a new...

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain tried to rectify perceived shortcomings and played against type at key moments in Tuesday’s presidential debate,...

With financial markets still tumbling, the Federal Reserve is signaling that it might cut interest rates after a series of bold steps by federal regulators failed to...

Prosecutors have begun winding down their case against Sen. Ted Stevens after playing secretly recorded conversations between two of his friends about the work one did...

The Supreme Court is weighing whether presidential power in wartime can override environmental concerns in a case that pits the Navy’s submarine-hunting training...

A man who climbed The New York Times building over the summer to promote the fight against malaria has been indicted on criminal charges.