A flood of voracious ants is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers, radios and even vehicles in their path. Even the Johnson Space Center has called in...

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled three new ads Friday in the upcoming primary states of Oregon and Kentucky, including one that pokes fun at Washington pundits...

The southwest Alabama town of Coffeeville has been shaken by a small earthquake.

An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried...

In President Bush’s hint that Barack Obama wants to appease terrorists, Democrats heard troubling echoes of 2004, when Republicans portrayed John Kerry as...

A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted the former head of UCLA’s cadaver program on eight felony counts for allegedly trafficking in parts of bodies donated...

Beyond the confines of the Barack Obama and John McCain presidential campaigns, independent groups are planting the seeds of the left- and right-wing attack ads that...

American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen announced Friday that she will step down from her post in October after leading the group for nearly two...

Two congressional committee chairmen said Friday they plan to investigate whether there were broader motives behind a Veterans Affairs Department employee’s...

Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called “naive and irresponsible,” serving notice that...

The United States said Friday it has reached a deal with North Korea to provide more than 500,000 tons of food aid over the coming year to the closed-off communist...

President Bush’s contentious nominee for the Federal Election Commission has yanked his name from consideration, potentially ending a broader confirmation...

Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor...

Studies of how cancer cells spread have led to a surprising discovery about the creation of cells with adult stem-cell characteristics, offering potentially major...

Police say DNA found on a half-eaten candy bar helped them zero in on a robbery suspect.

South Texas emergency managers working to ensure the area is prepared for a hurricane are worried that federal officials will cause disastrous delays by insisting on...

A winery spokeswoman says California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi has died. He was 94.

President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the U.S. opposition party to appeasers...

Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company’s board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.’s $47.5...

Scientists are preparing for “seven minutes of terror” as a Nasa spacecraft makes a nail-biting descent to the surface of Mars. The Phoenix lander needs to...