In a wide-ranging session on Tuesday dealing with global biofuel, food security and poverty issues, there was plenty for the presenters to disagree about — but the...

Given how opposition to legal abortion is almost entirely based on religious dogma, one might think that areas where belief in religious dogma is highest will be areas...

A Louisiana state senator has submitted his resignation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Fort Benning officials say a trainee has been punished in the beating of a Jewish soldier, but won’t face military proceedings.

A half sister of Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, has died of Alzheimer’s disease, the family announced.

President Bush said Friday that the government’s financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in....

Oil prices plunged in another violent sell-off Friday, briefly tumbling below $78 a barrel as investors grow more pessimistic about the prospects for resolving a...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens’ word “sterling” at the senator’s corruption trial.

An advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound and the doctor describes to her what...

Supreme Court justices regularly confront cases involving companies they own shares in or that employ a family member. The decision is easy _ the justices have a...

Wall Street extended its devastating decline Friday as investors, still seeing no resolution to the credit crisis, sold frantically and propelled the Dow Jones...

Police in North Carolina say a woman hunting rats on her property caused a scare at a neighboring public school.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says Republican candidate John McCain is trying to distract voters from the nation’s financial problems.

As the presidential race revs up, political conversations in NFL locker rooms echo those in workplaces nationwide.

Afraid cash isn’t secure even behind the thick walls of banks, more people are turning to something that’s protected money since the days of Jesse James and...

A 16-year-old Michigan girl has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for poisoning her grandmother with morphine.

General Electric Co. spared investors any nasty surprises as it reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter earnings, meeting its own lowered forecast and blaming the...

Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday accused Republican John McCain of trying to divide the country, but he let fellow Democrats handle harsher attacks while...

Lars Ulrich, songwriter and drummer for the heavy-metal band Metallica, is selling a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting from his art collection that could set a new auction...

Morgan Stanley Inc. shares plunged Friday as investors questioned the investment bank’s future even with a major investment from Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ...