In a return to the public stage, John Edwards has confirmed plans to talk politics a month after admitting to an extramarital affair. But his wife won’t be at his...

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has given his military superiors and Defense Secretary Robert Gates his initial recommendation on when to resume a...

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Gustav is now a dangerous Category 3 storm with winds near 115 mph.

He was a respected former NYPD detective and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War who struggled in recent months with inoperable liver cancer.

The Maine artist who brought LOVE to the world is doing the same with HOPE.

A small plane overshot a runway and crashed into some power lines near Bob Hope Airport. Three people inside the aircraft were injured, authorities said.

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Gustav gained strength to become a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will be among the speakers at a memorial service Saturday for the late U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of the Cleveland...

A co-defendant in the bizarre bank robbery plot that led to the collar-bomb death of a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man more than five years ago will plead guilty next...

A small airplane crashed into a parked car near Bob Hope Airport Friday evening, seconds after a woman inside the vehicle saw the plane coming and fled.

A train slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma on Friday, triggering a huge explosion that killed two people and injured a third, authorities...

President Bush witnessed cannons firing, guns flinging and heavy marching at a Marines parade Friday night while visiting their barracks.

Attorneys for a polygamous church sued a court-appointed accountant on Friday, seeking to reverse an $8.8 million judgment against its $110 million property trust.

Two airliners were one minute from colliding when at least one of the planes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean this week, federal authorities said...

DNA evidence has linked an air conditioning repairman to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, police said Friday.

NASA’s staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent...

A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec.

The mother of a missing Florida toddler being put behind bars again.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence will pay $1.3 million to four people who said they were abused by priests, lawyers announced Friday.

Canada’s prime minister will likely schedule an election in October to try to shore up his minority government, a senior official in his office said Friday.