Climate change may soon make the tropics too hot for many native species, which will be forced to head for higher ground to escape the heat, U.S. researchers said on...

It was a wild, chaotic scene across a rugged swath of the San Fernando Valley as fire season arrived with a vengeance.

Powerful gusts stoked three major wildfires in Southern California early Tuesday that have charred nearly 12,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands...

The Supreme Court is meeting to issue orders and hear arguments in cases about voting rights and warrantless home searches.

Justice Department officials released new guidelines yesterday that empower FBI agents to use intrusive techniques to gather intelligence within the United States,...

Former presidential candidates Bob Dole and George McGovern both saw their presidential ambitions quashed in landslide elections.

The state’s corn harvest for this year may not break any records as once anticipated, but it’s still likely to be most bountiful crop produced in Kansas...

Long held U.S. antagonism to the International Criminal Court could soften under a new president, but that does not mean that either Barack Obama or John McCain is...

The tobacco industry is asking a federal appeals panel to overturn a landmark ruling that could open the door to more lawsuits from smokers claiming they were harmed...

The National Hurricane Center says the newest tropical depression is forecast to become a tropical storm as it drifts southeast in the Atlantic.

Unlike in other nations where abortion is legal, in America (where abortion became legal nation-wide in 1973) whether the procedure should still be allowed is...

North Korea planned to resume dismantling its nuclear program Tuesday for the first time in two months, days after the United States removed the communist regime from a...

Late-night TV show hosts found humor in the presidential debate. A sampling from Monday night:

Boeing Co. says renewed negotiations with its striking machinists broke down over an issue crucial to the company’s “long-term competitiveness.” A...

Alan Jackson won songwriter/artist of the year honors for his hits “A Woman’s Love” and “Small Town Southern Man” during the American...

You can call her CutoutDissection.com, Cutout for short, but just don’t call her Jennifer.

A former U.S. Army sergeant who has been living in Canada as a war resister has been denied refugee status there.

Four manmade waterfalls cascaded to a close Monday, ending an ambitious public art project that inspired both admiration and complaints.

A jury has convicted a woman of capital murder for the shooting and beating deaths of four people in suburban Houston in 2003.

A playful polar bear pawing at a toy lost his balance and slipped into a moat at the Milwaukee County Zoo.