Republican John McCain pledged to fight for a new direction for the country in an energetic new campaign stump speech Monday that sought to distance him from the...

Weight used to be a health concern for people because many diseases may be developed as a result of overweight. However, a recent large United States study suggested...

Delpha Speak has 13 grandchildren and she didn’t think it was completely implausible that one of her grandsons-in-law would call her to say he was in trouble. The...

Two wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds threatened neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, killing one person, destroying several dozen mobile homes and...

Forget about the boob tube. Places to watch TV on the Internet are proliferating, from NBC Universal and News Corp.’s Hulu to Joost _ a site that plans to...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accidentally mistook some of her own fans for protesters Monday.

Catherine Stevens has become the linchpin in the corruption trial of her husband, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens _ to both the prosecutors and his defense team.

A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty “hot kielbasa” _ for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the kielbasa was really...

The chief executive of Chrysler LLC said Monday that his company hasn’t reached any new deals with other automakers but has spoken with outside parties interested...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a Democratic rejoinder to the Republican chant of “drill, baby, drill.” Said the one-time presidential candidate:...

Barack Obama and Joe Biden won the endorsement Monday of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Democrat Barack Obama is calling for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures and a two-year tax break for businesses that create jobs as part of a plan to heal the...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that seeing the U.S. in an economic crisis eight years after Democrats left the nation in sound fiscal shape is heartbreaking.

A television station says two people died when its news helicopter crashed in a rural area north of Houston.

A looming federal investigation and possible trial is making it difficult for seven juvenile Florida boot camp guards and a nurse acquitted last year of state charges...

The U.S. automotive sales slump worked its way to Janesville, Wis., Monday when General Motors Corp. told workers that it would stop making sport utility vehicles at a...

Democrat Barack Obama is calling for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures and a two-year tax break for businesses that create jobs as part of a plan to heal the...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says President Bush doesn’t see how hard the economy is the middle class and that voters should elect Democrat Barack Obama.

Five years as a Prisoner of War doesn’t mean a war Hero! War Heroes return Home with Prisoners BUT NOT as Prisoners.

A second teenager from outside Nebraska has been left at an Omaha hospital under the state’s unique safe-haven law, apparently after his parent flew to the city...