Stocks are heading for a sharply lower open after the government disappointed investors with news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in August.

The government says the nation’s unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs.

Last night, John McCain finally threw President George W. Bush under the bus. About time, if you ask me. He did it very tactically. He began by acknowledging President...

Tropical storm watches or warnings were extended from Georgia to areas just south of New York City on Friday as states along the Atlantic braced for Tropical Storm...

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter has crashed in waters five miles south of Honolulu, and officials say three crewmembers have been recovered and one remains missing....

Before Sarah Palin, there was Dan Quayle. Just as Sarah Palin represents a new generation away from the John McCain’s generation, so did Dan Quayle in 1988 represent...

Specialty insurer Assurant Inc. has agreed to acquire the warranty management business of General Electric Co.’s appliance and consumer electronics division.

A 47-year-old record-setting motorcycle racer from Montana has died when he lost control and crashed while traveling at 239 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Wall Street looked to extend its losses on Friday, with investors worried that the government’s August jobs report will show that the economy is in recession.

Federal researchers are warning that warming temperatures could soon cause California’s giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly unless forest managers plan...

One Utah community is cheering a special bear _ but don’t call him Smokey.

After seeing what “An Inconvenient Truth” did for environmental awareness, Hollywood producer Laura Ziskin wanted to make a documentary about cancer, a...

San Francisco is delaying a controversial program that would provide identification cards to all residents regardless of legal status.

Barack Obama’s campaign plans to employ high-profile female supporters in an effort to blunt GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s potential to...

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ike has weakened to a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic.

Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.

Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan were to converge in Beijing on Friday to discuss the worsening impasse over North Korea’s nuclear...

Tropical Storm Hanna was accelerating early Friday as it made its way toward the United States’ southeast coast.

Droughts. Hurricanes. Floods. Monsoons. Disappearing coastlines. These are just a few of the weather effects we’re currently experiencing and will see more of in the...

I remember about a month ago reading a news article on MSN stating the United States 911 systems were choking with non-emergency calls. I’ve got to be honest, I...