With panic tightening its grip on investors here and abroad, pressure was growing on the United States Tuesday to take further aggressive steps to stem the economic...

In a move to dramatically cut costs and better compete with Intel Corp., chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Tuesday it will spin off its factories into a new...

Iowa authorities say they’ve captured a Kentucky sheriff’s deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend.

Misty May-Treanor is too hurt to keep dancing. The 31-year-old “Dancing with the Stars” contestant and Olympic gold medalist volleyball player appeared at...

A small-to-moderate earthquake has shaken rural northeastern Nevada, and there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

Forget about the outdated notion of thrift shops as the refuge of the working poor, the down and out or the vintage fashion hipster. In these troubled times, the...

Wall Street headed for a slightly higher open Tuesday amid hopes that central banks around the world will cut interest rates to help alleviate turmoil in the credit...

Oil pipeline executive Bill Allen returns to the witness stand Tuesday to continue his testimony in the corruption trial of his old friend, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.

A federal judge has scolded California officials for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state’s...

A small group of Chinese muslims being held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay want a federal judge to order their release into the United States.

Supporters and opponents of a ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage in California have poured $41.2 million into the race, more than the combined total...

The only hints of trouble in the big beige house on Como Lane were the newspapers in the driveway and the lack of any activity behind the front door.

New Jersey is powering up an ambitious plan to become a world leader in the use of wind-generated energy.

The United States will continue its troop presence in Kosovo until at least late next year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said just before he arrived here Tuesday,...

In the wake of the priest-abuse crisis, the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia debuted a short film that urges teens to report sexual violence.

Quintin Watts had a lengthy criminal record, a history of substance abuse and a string of motor vehicle offenses. Even his mother says he wasn’t a good driver.

The Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar said that a bridge is a man crossing a bridge; those words came to me while I was walking through the exhibition Act/React that...

For years, Massachusetts was known derisively as “Taxachusetts.” But voters could help shed that label in November by completely eliminating the...

GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in...

Nearly two decades later, John McCain is still haunted by his role in the Keating Five scandal.