Republican presidential candidate John McCain pledged Tuesday night in campaign debate to require the federal government to renegotiate the mortgages of individual...

Health officials say a 14-year-old Iowa girl has been abandoned at an Omaha hospital under Nebraska’s safe-haven law.

Rocco DiSpirito will serve seconds on “Dancing with the Stars.”

“Our opponent though is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he is palling around with terrorists who would target...

After weeks of limited contact with the news media, Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin ventured to the back of her campaign plane Tuesday and answered...

After weeks of limited contact with the news media, Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin ventured to the back of her campaign plane Tuesday and answered...

A 29-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly binding the hands of a teenager sitting next to him on a Southwest Airlines flight and trying to tape her older...

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are squaring off in their second debate with the economic meltdown the top concern among voters. Obama said, “We...

Mental health counselors were on the alert Tuesday for calls from people depressed or possibly suicidal about money woes, after an unemployed financial manager killed...

The bus that crashed and killed eight people on a Northern California road was driven by a man who wasn’t properly licensed and owned by another man who had...

About 90 elementary school students in Montana have started a series of rabies shots after a parent let them touch a dead bat that was later confirmed to be diseased.

The mother of a little girl long known as “Precious Doe” testified Tuesday she knew the injured 3-year-old needed medical attention but that she feared...

The federal investigation of a fatal Texas bus crash zeroed in Tuesday on foreign-made passenger buses that operate in the U.S. but don’t meet minimum U.S. safety...

Dan Rather could have made millions of dollars more per year if CBS had not defrauded him before firing him, his lawyer said Tuesday.

You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim, of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra, of Petersburg, Germany, claim to have broken the Guinness World Record for...

In these times of trouble and turmoil, financial crisis and contentious presidential campaigns, it’s nice to know we can always find some humor among the news...

Britney Spears may have to stand trial for driving without a valid license after all.

A new federal indictment has been handed up against a Canadian man who was days from being tried in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member when a...

An animal control officer stumbled across the body of a Hurricane Ike victim on an island near where the storm slammed ashore last month, bringing the national death...

The works of David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide September 12, are famous for their obsessively observed detail and emotional nuance.