Federal authorities in Chicago say they’ve shut down one of the largest spam e-mail operations in the world. The Federal Trade Commission says the group generated...

Barack Obama and John McCain both have big-ticket proposals to change how people obtain and pay for health insurance. A long history of failed health-reform plans shows...

Republican John McCain says he would order the Treasury Department to guarantee 100 percent of all savings for the next six months as president.

A former mob prosecutor who is now a federal judge says a former Boston FBI agent on trial for murder was key to major New England Mafia investigations.

Wall Street fluctuated Tuesday as investors reacted enthusiastically to the U.S. government’s plans to spend $250 billion to buy stock in private banks but also...

United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said Tuesday he would oppose a merger between General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC because it would cost workers their...

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday, holding near $80 a barrel as a joint U.S. and European plan to inject billions of dollars into the beleaguered banking system brought a...

An Arkansas man convicted of murdering four people aboard the Florida charter boat “Joe Cool” will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney on Tuesday admitted causing “embarrassment and heartache” in his marriage but denied paying hush money to a former aide to...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain proposed on Tuesday that the government eliminate taxes on unemployment benefits, one plank in a $52.5 billion economic...

Wall Street fluctuated Tuesday as investors reacted enthusiastically to the U.S. government’s plans to spend $250 billion to buy stock in private banks but also...

A father and stepmother were charged with withholding their 14-year-old daughter’s food and water so drastically that she weighed only 48 pounds, authorities...

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Omar has formed as the 15th named storm of the Atlantic season.

Wall Street turned lower Tuesday as investors reacted enthusiastically to the U.S. government’s plans to spend $250 billion to buy stock in private banks but also...

The children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King are facing off in an Atlanta courtroom, at odds over their mother’s personal papers that...

Sen. Ted Stevens has added his name to a list of possible defense witnesses at his corruption trial.

Wall Street fluctuated but largely extended its big advance Tuesday as investors reacted enthusiastically to the U.S. government’s plans to spend $250 billion to...

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Georgia man to be put to death for killing a police officer, two weeks after it halted his execution to consider his...

A Marine who fled to Mexico shortly before he was charged with killing a pregnant comrade is fighting extradition in a move that prosecutors said could delay or...

Stocks are soaring for a second day as investors react enthusiastically to the government’s plans to spend $250 billion to buy stock in private banks.