The grip on the credit markets loosened just barely on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve said it would buy commercial paper, the unsecured short-term debt that...

Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that the presidential candidates should end the smear campaigns and get back to the issues.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the “truthfulness and judgment” needed to be president. But the...

A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a...

Barack Obama’s campaign is citing the University of South Carolina’s speaking invitations to William Ayers and Republican Gov. Mark Sanford’s role as...

A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home wins $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year. Kory McFarren cashed in...

If William Kennedy had updated all his financial paperwork in accordance with his divorce decree, chances are his daughter would not have been at the Supreme Court on...

Will NASA’s flagship mission to Mars fly next year?

Americans’ retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months _ about 20 percent of their value _ Congress’ top budget analyst...

Members of a polygamous church are suing to regain control of a property trust, claiming court reforms since 2005 have stripped it of its constitutional rights.

Online video leader YouTube has opened up its version of a home shopping network in its latest effort to wring more revenue from its massive audience and justify the...

The Bush administration is criticizing a federal judge’s decision to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo Bay into the U.S. and says it will seek to...

The deadpan and depressed characters Bill Murray has specialized in portraying as an actor in recent years have always stood in contrast to the life-of-the-party guy he...

Dusting off Depression-era emergency powers, the Federal Reserve is extending its reach over the economy as never before, pushing the limits of its authority, if not...

Nick Nolte has escaped a fire that burned a Malibu home to the ground.

A man was charged Tuesday in the strangling death of his 11-year-old stepsister who was starved by her parents and slept a locked room inside an upstate NY house filled...

It can be a fine line between investing and gambling. But in Las Vegas, you know the odds. On Wall Street, that’s not always the case.

The spokesman for a Connecticut congressional candidate is learning that not everything is private on the Internet.

Alaska’s top finance officer will review payments made to Gov. Sarah Palin for nights she charged the state for staying in her own home.

Boston police said a passenger who was angry because his flight was delayed tried to get back at the airline by throwing foot powder around the plane. Arthur Nicolson,...