With the world’s financial markets on a stomach-churning ride, the Bush administration is scrambling to get a $700 billion rescue effort for the U.S. banking...

A jury has awarded nearly $11 million to a woman who became partially paralyzed after waiting two hours for a hospital brain scan.

These are tough times for Detroit, America’s auto Mecca. Two American icons and carmakers General Motors and Chrysler have recently started to explore the...

The North Korean nation led by eccentric leader Kim Jong Il has just been removed from the U.S. State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism this past...

Orientalism, Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said’s 1978 groundbreaking text, was an invaluable contribution, and the most plenary one, to understanding historic...

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Tropical Storm Nana is disorganized and is expected to weaken to a tropical depression in the Atlantic.

Michigan voters will be thrust into the crossroads of science, ethics and religion next month when they decide whether to loosen the state’s restrictions on...

A wildfire that had burned more than 2,000 acres and forced more than 1,000 people from their homes north of Los Angeles was only smoldering early Monday, but worries...

With the registration deadline only a day away, New Jersey election officials say they’re struggling to keep up with a record tide of new voter registrations.

North Dakota barley production jumped in 2008, thanks in large part to weather during the growing season in the east that one farmer described as...

John McCain’s supporters have finally gone off the deep end. Fearing that they are going to lose the election, his supporters have resorted to frantic and vile...

A 51-year-old woman was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and tampering with evidence after she allegedly served a marijuana-tainted ginger cake to her real...

The nation’s leading pediatricians group says children from newborns to teens should get double the usually recommended amount of vitamin D because of evidence...

The debate season that has chewed up its moderators comes to a close Wednesday when John McCain and Barack Obama meet for the third time, with CBS News’ Bob...

Allan H. Spear, a former Minnesota state senator who was one of the nation’s first openly gay legislators, has died. He was 71.

Dorfman has a small paneled room, lined with his books and sports trophies, close enough to the front door so that if Mrs. Dorfman is out, cigars can be enjoyed.

Allan H. Spear, a former Minnesota state senator who was one of the nation’s first openly gay legislators, has died. He was 71.

William Claxton, a celebrated photographer who worked with such entertainers as Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra and who helped establish the organization that runs the...

Chowdown champ Joey Chestnut has done it again _ this time proving he’s a pizza powerhouse.

Take a look at the above Cisco ASR 1000 series router, sexy?Cisco Systems took the launch of the their Cisco ASR 100 series routers onto Web2.0 and many blog...