Tropical Storm Hanna rattled the tourist beaches of the Carolinas as its center edged closer to shore early Saturday for the start of a projected dash up the Eastern...

Despite a 48-hour contract extension, negotiations between Boeing Co. and Machinists union officials have failed and the union declared: “The strike is...

Despite a 48-hour contract extension, negotiations between Boeing Co. and Machinists union officials have failed and the union declared: “The strike is...

Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus and Charlize Theron were among the celebrities who appeared at the fifth annual Fashion Rocks concert celebrating the relationship...

The Sarah Palin story, or is it a fantasy, is playing out big time in America and it has barely begun. It was good to hear two major conservative pundits, Peggy Noonan...

So-called ‘intelligent’ computer-based methods for classifying patient samples, for example, have been evaluated with the help of two methods that have...

Alain Jacquet, a French pop artist known for his reinterpretations of famous paintings, has died, the French Embassy said.

A light earthquake has rattled the San Francisco Bay area.

The latest images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show faint, partial rings orbiting with two of Saturn’s small inner moons, scientists said Friday.

Nevada regulators have shut down Silver State Bank. It was the 11th failure this year of a federally insured bank.

The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as soon as this weekend in a monumental move designed to protect the mortgage market from the failure...

A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.

A federal judge ruled Friday that the city of Vallejo could push forward with its bankruptcy case, rejecting a legal challenge by police and firefighters unions.

The University of California, Berkeley has begun cutting down trees at the center of a dispute over its plans to clear the area to make way for a new sports center.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to be taken over by the government as soon as this weekend in a bold move designed to protect the mortgage market from the risk...

Unlike his Republican opponent, Democrat Barack Obama is still raising money for his presidential campaign, and he turned Friday to rock legend Jon Bon Jovi for help.

Authorities in New Jersey are searching a freight-train car after a woman reported that a Federal Express package containing a bomb might be aboard.

Gov. Sarah Palin’s church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.

“I kill for God. I listen to God,” a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree...

A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.