The NAACP board of directors has chosen Ben Jealous, a former news executive and lifelong activist, as the organization’s next president and the youngest in its...

After nine months of turmoil that started with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, Wall Street appears to be at a turning point of sorts.

Russia’s new president has promised the kind of democratic change that Washington advocated during predecessor Vladimir Putin’s tenure. At the same time,...

An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station Friday, killing the driver and hurting seven people,...

Three Mexican men held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid “drop house” in South Los Angeles, where one woman was raped and others say they were...

An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried...

An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station Friday, killing the driver and hurting seven people,...

Three Mexican men held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid “drop house” in South Los Angeles, where one woman was raped and others say they were...

A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring all 24 people aboard.

I am making a big assumption here – that President George Bush is capable of feeling any sense of embarrassment. For the second time in five months, the Saudis have...

A bitter 80-day United Auto Workers strike against an auto parts maker that has crippled dozens of General Motors Corp. factories could be coming to an end soon with a...

The Ohio Lottery says a winning Mega Millions ticket has been sold in Ohio.

Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state’s ban.

A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring at least 17, including three seriously, an emergency official said.

Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that adds new restrictions and requirements for illegal immigrants, the cities in which they live and the...

Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.

Emergency officials say a carnival ride has collapsed at a fairgrounds, injuring three people severely.

The federal government isn’t used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments.

A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat...

A New York financier has been sentenced in San Diego to more than eight years in federal prison for laundering bribes for former Congressman Randy “Duke”...