The U.S. military has started a media campaign to educate soldiers about working with electricity as part of an effort to prevent future electrocutions in Iraq.

A woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for beating her 93-year-old neighbor with a vacuum cleaner during a robbery that netted her $5.

The mother of the girl who became known as “Precious Doe” has testified in a Missouri courtroom that she watched her then-boyfriend kick her daughter in the...

Higher gas sales and a boost from its more upscale stores helped grocer Safeway Inc. post a slight rise in profit in its third fiscal quarter.

A Serbian court has freed a former diplomat suspected of helping a student facing assault charges in the United States flee to Serbia, a court official said Tuesday.

President Bush has reached out to European leaders, urging coordinated action to address the global financial crisis. The White House says Bush is open to the idea of a...

The Internal Revenue Service, seeking to make cash more available during the current credit crunch, has issued a rule making it easier for U.S. corporations to bring...

Alongside a photo spread that shows her in little more than a T-shirt, Halle Berry talks about being the sexiest woman alive, a title Esquire magazine gives her in its...

Lawyers have begun to question potential jurors in the case of five men accused of plotting to kill soldiers at Fort Dix.

Democratic registration has surged by 13 percent and Republican ranks have shrunk by 1 percent as a record 8.6 million people registered to vote in battleground...

A federal judge has ordered the release of a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States.

A federal judge has ordered the release of a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States.

Oil prices rebounded slightly Tuesday, briefly rising back above $90 a barrel after some stability returned to the shaky financial system and prodded investors to put...

In the year of Sarah Palin and “Sex and the City,” perhaps it’s no surprise that an event honoring women drew some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Germany has returned over 20 pounds of highly enriched uranium fuel to the U.S. for safeguarding from terrorists or potential misuse.

A man accused of coaching immigrants on how to make phony asylum claims pleaded guilty to fraud and other charges and agreed to forfeit $1.7 million.

Tennessee sheriff’s deputies say a 10-year-old was driving up to 90 mph when he crashed a van carrying two adults who had been drinking and taking pills and two...

Stocks fluctuated in quiet trading Tuesday as investors appeared to adopt a wait-and-see approach to the range of options the Federal Reserve has laid out to inject the...

The credit markets saw some slight easing Tuesday after the Federal Reserve said it would buy commercial paper, the unsecured short-term debt that companies sell for...

A lifelike baby Triceratops that children can ride on, a Wall-E robot that responds to your voice, a dancing game that eliminates wires and mats.