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...

House Republicans and Democrats pushed dueling economic stimulus measures Monday as evidence mounted that the financial meltdown is dominating the presidential race and...

As Marcia Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” Maureen McCormick projected an image of the wholesome girl next door. But off camera, she spiraled downward into drug...

Attorneys general from three states are asking 11 companies that make baby bottles and baby formula containers to no longer use the chemical bisphenol A.

Today a man was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt. Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when...

Intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California Monday morning and whipped up a 3,000-acre wildfire, forcing the closure of a major freeway during rush hour and...

Wall Street snapped back from last week’s devastating losses after major governments announced further steps to support the global banking system, including plans...

John McCain says he knows Americans are worried the current financial crisis could determine the nation’s future and he promised to fight for a new direction for...

Officials from the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are scheduled to meet later Monday with top executives from financial firms to work out details of the...

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says a new tropical depression has formed over the eastern Caribbean even as what had been Tropical Storm Nana lost strength over...

An aide to House Republican Leader John Boehner says the House GOP is demanding that majority Democrats call Congress back into session before the elections to pass a...

Four manmade waterfalls on New York’s East River are about to dry up _ much to the relief of critics who say salty water from the art installation has destroyed...

President Bush is voicing confidence that close cooperation between the United States and other nations will help move the world past the painful financial crisis.

Nebraska officials say another teenager from outside the state has been left at an Omaha hospital under the state’s safe haven law.