The number of foreign children adopted by Americans fell 12 percent in the past year, reaching the lowest level since 1999 as some countries clamped down on the process...

Some 691,000 children went hungry in America sometime in 2007, while close to one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately even before this...

Jolted by rising unemployment and shrinking investment portfolios, Americans have been feeling the pain of the world’s worst financial upheaval in more than a...

Hundreds of lenders told federal housing officials Thursday that a $300 billion mortgage aid program requires too many losses for consumers and lenders to realistically...

Americans have slammed their wallets shut since the financial meltdown, and the future is looking downright scary for stores across the country and the whole U.S....

President-elect Obama honored fallen troops Tuesday by placing a wreath at a memorial and making a Veterans Day pledge to the many Americans who have served in the...

The lives of nearly 8,000 black Americans could be saved each year if doctors could figure out a way to bring their average blood pressure down to the average level of...

Vitamins C and E _ pills taken by millions of Americans _ do nothing to prevent heart disease in men, one of the largest and longest studies of these supplements has...

Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day’s losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United...

Inheriting an economy in peril, President-elect Obama warned on Friday that the nation faces the challenge of a lifetime and pledged he would act urgently to help...

The nation’s jobless ranks zoomed past 10 million last month, the most in a quarter-century, as piles of pink slips shut factory gates and office doors to 240,000...

U.S. intelligence agencies have loosened security clearance and hiring rules to open their ranks to first- and second-generation Americans and to outside professionals...

President-elect Obama says the hardships many Americans are suffering economically are an “urgent reminder” that the nation’s leaders must act swiftly...

The U.S. government arrested and deported record numbers of illegal immigrants _ nearly 350,000 _ in the past year, authorities say. It has also naturalized a record...

The number of out-of-work Americans continuing to draw unemployment benefits has surged to a 25-year high, while shoppers turned extra frugal, further proof of the...

The nation’s retailers are reporting what are expected to be the weakest October sales in decades as an intensifying financial meltdown and mounting layoffs leave...

Americans voted in unprecedented numbers in Tuesday’s election, topping the record set in the 2004 presidential race by several million.

Voters cast their ballots Tuesday in numbers not seen in at least 40 years, as millions of Americans picked their president early and waited in lines that stretched the...

A wealthy arms dealer has gone on trial in New York City on charges he tried to sell millions of dollars in weaponry to Colombian rebels so they could attack...

Many Americans endured long lines to vote. Tim Robbins had to get a court order before he was allowed to cast his vote for president.