The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ike has been downgraded to a Category 2 storm with winds sustained at 110 mph.

The challenge for Barack Obama is to make himself acceptable enough to disgruntled voters eager to toss Republicans from the White House if they see a comfortable,...

Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm’s whipping winds and rain didn’t linger long enough over the Southeast to...

Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership...

Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are putting aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fourth teenager has been charged in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.

Authorities in New Jersey say a bomb scare involving a package on a freight train appears to have been a hoax.

Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as...

Don’t let the celebrities at a Jermaine Dupri party distract you from partying, or you might get an admonishment from the host himself.

President Bush says if Congress doesn’t permit offshore drilling to increase U.S. oil supplies and possibly ease gasoline prices, lawmakers should not expect...

John McCain’s presidential campaign did not speak with the Alaska House speaker and other leading Republicans before McCain tapped Gov. Sarah Palin as his running...

Authorities in Philadelphia say an allegedly drunken teen motorist has smashed into a police car during a pursuit and one of the officers has died.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain’s approach to Social Security on Saturday, saying it would undermine the government...

Tropical Storm Hanna sailed easily over the beaches of Carolinas’ coast and moved inland Saturday, blowing hard and dumping rain in eastern North Carolina but...

Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats _...

Tropical Storm Hanna sailed easily over the beaches of Carolinas’ coast early Saturday, blowing hard and dumping rain but apparently causing little damage at the...

Another rising star, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, has fallen. The young major of Detroit resigned this week amidst a sex scandal that began early this year. It started when...

Hell hath no fury like a Newsvine query...on illegal immigration. As the story has been told, 12,000,000 of my Mexican compatriots waited until nightfall to sneak...

When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed the previous year.

Boeing Co. machinists walked out on strike Saturday after talks with a federal mediator failed to produce an agreement.