Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson expressed fresh reservations Tuesday about tapping a $700 billion bailout pool to provide mortgage guarantees to help stem soaring home...

Authorities say a Mississippi State tennis player has been arrested and charged with raping a 20-year-old woman during a party at his apartment.

NAACP National Board Chairman Julian Bond says he will not seek re-election as chairman, a post he has held since 1998.

A dispute on the board of budget airline easyJet PLC escalated Tuesday when founder and non-executive director Stelios Haji-Iannou refused to approve the...

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...

Spain’s most famous judge abandoned a drive for a symbolic indictment of the late Gen. Francisco Franco and his regime, dropping a probe Tuesday into atrocities...

Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception.

Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception.

Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States...

ESPN will broadcast 15 Bowl Championship Series games from 2011 to 2014.

Chinese President Hu Jintao was on a triumphant tour through Havana on Tuesday as his country expanded its already extensive economic relationship with the...

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed higher Tuesday.

Massachusetts’ top securities regulator on Tuesday accused Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. of fraud over the investment bank’s sales of auction-rate securities...

Peruvian authorities say a man has been arrested in Lima carrying a box of 36 grenades ahead of the arrival of 18 world leaders for a Pacific Rim economic summit.

Hip-hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight is facing felony drug charges and a misdemeanor battery charge in Las Vegas.

A man whose groin was disfigured by a flesh-eating bacteria infection in prison has accepted a $300,000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that both leaders hope Lufthansa can work out a collaboration deal with...

A Democratic senator says Democrats are letting Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Republican...

Northern Ireland’s long-feuding Protestant and Catholic leaders ended a five-month deadlock Tuesday by agreeing to form a Justice Department that will oversee the...

Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...