The world’s species are declining at a rate “unprecedented since the extinction of the dinosaurs”, a census of the animal kingdom has revealed. The...

The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux.

Democrats think they have a chance this year to unseat the sole GOP senator on the West Coast. But first voters have to choose a challenger: the state House speaker or...

The day of campaigning had barely begun and Hillary Rodham Clinton was already eyeing the whiskey.

Six cars of a freight train derailed early Saturday, including one that began leaking hydrochloric acid, causing thousands of people to evacuate homes, businesses and...

Last summer, the local CBS affiliate television station, News 8, aired a story about a website called BumFinder.com. The website solicited users who would spot people...

A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said.

A man with a rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said.

Los Angeles police say a man with a rifle has wounded two people at a festival outside a Southern California church.

Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party’s presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in...

Before the Civil War and Antietam, the bloodiest battle fought on American soil was here, on a narrow but strategically vital strip of land between Lake Champlain and...

Picking a winner of the presidential contest is front and center at what’s being billed as the largest astrologers’ convention in years.

Last month, Marine Staff Sgt. Travis N. “T-Bo” Twiggs went to the White House with a group of Iraq war veterans called the Wounded Warriors Regiment and met...

Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love. “I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school,” the...

The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark...

Six rail cars have derailed in southern Louisiana, with two cars leaking hydrochloric acid and forcing police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile of the...

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts has been hospitalized in Boston after suffering stroke-like symptoms, The Associated Press has learned.

Source says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts hospitalized with apparent stroke-like symptoms.

A Democratic congressman on Saturday urged Republicans to “step up to the plate” to help veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

When President Bush, once a Texas oilman, asked Saudi Arabia to pump more crude, he may have forgotten that the Saudis have a long memory. And that made it a good bet...