There are ample reasons for America’s shoppers to act like grinches this holiday season, with lost jobs, wilting retirement accounts and shrinking home values...

Hands up! Drop the merchandise! Your busted, sucka’! Oh no, look at that crappy mugshot! Recently, I read the article below on the Associated Press...

To mark World AIDS Day, a Civil Forum on Global Health at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. will present President Bush with the first “International Medal of PEACE”...

Even though he’s nuttier than a hard-ass germ-infested Christmas fruitcake, the former black man whose hair caught fire in the 80’s due to a greasy-ass...

A federal judge has banned MGA Entertainment Inc. from making and selling its hugely popular Bratz dolls in a sweeping decision that rival Mattel Inc. hailed as a major...

When a man sounding remarkably like President-elect Barack Obama called a Florida congresswoman Wednesday, she assumed it was a crank call.

A judge on Wednesday granted an injunction sought by toy maker Mattel Inc. that bars rival MGA Entertainment Inc. from manufacturing or selling its popular pouty-lipped...

Authorities say a chartered bus carrying students has collided with a semitrailer in northern Illinois, and people have been taken to hospitals as a precaution.

An autopsy has determined the death of a Japanese businessman found dead in a jail cell after being extradited to California in a decades-old murder conspiracy case was...

The legal staff for the U.S. House of Representatives has challenged the constitutionality of the Justice Department’s prosecution of retiring U.S. Rep. Rick...

A wealthy Russian-born businessman from suburban Philadelphia was charged Wednesday with traveling to orphanages in his native country to molest young girls and hire...

The current homeland security secretary advised his successor Wednesday not to reorganize the young department or try to please everyone.

Former President Jimmy Carter has written a new book on the Middle East with a title he hopes will not be as controversial as the last one, which was called,...

An autopsy shows the Metrolink engineer involved in a train collision that killed 25 people in September was not on drugs or medication before he ran a red light that...

In broadcasting the world’s first live 3-D football game to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston on Thursday evening, the NFL promises an “up close,...

A family of Hurricane Katrina survivors whose new house was partly built with lumber from last year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree were among thousands who...

A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu _ despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the...

A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu _ despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the...

The outlook for the majority of the U.S. information technology sector is negative for 2009, Fitch Ratings said Wednesday.

One of the men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix said it was time to bring holy war to American soil after listening to an Islamist lecture, an...