Swiss banking giant UBS AG agreed Friday to buy back nearly $20 billion in auction-rate securities from investors, a day after Citigroup Inc. reached a similar...

Here is the text of John Edwards’ statement:

Many Kodiak residents were a bit confused when they received election pamphlets urging them to “Bumoto!”

John Edwards says he made a serious error in judgment when he had an affair and is ashamed of his conduct.

The rooms may be standard, and the location is a bit out-of-the-way, but Charlie Mattingly thinks his planned hotel in southwest Jefferson County will have a unique...

Cuban-American groups in South Florida and journalism watchdog organizations are seeking the release of 22 Cuban political prisoners, including an independent...

A Massachusetts man is recovering after slashing his own throat upon hearing his conviction of assaulting a child.

A former University of Notre Dame president plans to donate a kidney to a woman Monday in a four-patient transplant procedure involving his nephew as a recipient.

An unlicensed charter bus carrying a Vietnamese-American Catholic group on a pilgrimage to an open-air religious festival blew a tire and skidded off a highway early...

Telegraph appears to be confirming last January’s rumor that Tarantino was considering Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, and Kim Kardashian with its recent suggestion that...

Matthew McConaughey says the birth of his son will help bring a little joy to others in the world someday.

A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications

One more person is confirmed dead in a charter bus wreck in Texas, bringing the death toll to 14.

Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom,...

A bar worker has been ordered held without bail in the killing of a Lil’ Kim fan during the rapper’s birthday bash at a popular Times Square karaoke club.

The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.

During the early months of 1996, not long before Easter, an amateur wildlife photographer named Christo Baars made his way to the Australian island-state of Tasmania,...

When the 2008 Summer Olympic Games kick off on August 8th, the eyes of the world will be on Beijing, where more than 10,000 athletes will compete for gold in 302 events...

Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as...

With Brett Favre headed to the Jets less than a week after Ken Griffey Jr. joined the White Sox and Manny Ramirez packed his bags for Los Angeles, now is as good a time...