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Lt. Jason Davis of Greenville, S.C., leading a combat patrol last month in Kandahar Province.When President Obama joins other NATO leaders Sunday and Monday, the full extent of how his Af...

Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident, arriving in New York on Saturday shortly after he landed at Newark Airport.Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer whose escape from house arrest j...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been getting tougher on insider trading on Wall Street, but its potential target may be too wide.

From left, Stephen Harper of Canada, François Hollande of France, President Obama and Angela Merkel of Germany.Meeting at Camp David, leaders of the world’s richest countries banded toget...

Diplo in Argentina.Diplo is a ubiquitous musician, D.J. and advertising star, and an artist who brings different worlds of music together.

Rescue teams searched through matchstick rubble Saturday for thousands of people missing in flooded areas of northeastern Japan, beginning one of the most complex relief efforts in history.

Japanese authorities said Sunday that efforts to restart the cooling system at one of the reactors damaged by Friday's earthquake had failed, a major setback in the struggle to contain wh...

A day after the historic Facebook IPO, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status Saturday to "married."

Joplin, Mo., residents recover from last year's deadly tornado that left 161 people dead and hundreds more injured.

The presidential retreat Camp David let its guard down this weekend for a bucolic summit enjoyed by leaders from around the world.

The White House isn't sounding exactly confident that a deal will be completed by the end of the NATO summit.

Tropical Storm Alberto swirled off the South Carolina coast, packing maximum sustained winds of 50 mph on Sunday.

The size of J.P. Morgan's bets is bogging down its efforts to extract itself and threatening deeper losses.

Facebook shares struggled to stay above their $38 IPO price, as Wall Street bankers stepped in to prevent the newly minted stock from ending its first day with an embarrassing loss.

Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta say he was estranged from convicted hedge-fund mogul Raj Rajaratnam at the time of some alleged tips. Prosecutors say the friendship ...

Google said Saturday that Chinese antitrust authorities have cleared the Internet giant's purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, pushing the $12.5 billion deal over its last regulatory h...

General Motors has decided it won't advertise in the next Super Bowl, balking at steep ad rates as the auto maker overhauls its global marketing operations.

Tom Fuentes was chairman of the Orange County Republican Party from 1985 to 2004. He helped maintain its powerhouse status and is remembered as 'the godfather of every idealistic person i...

The Kentucky Derby winner shows great closing speed again in overtaking the front-runner in the final 100 yards to move within one victory over the Triple Crown. BALTIMORE --The 2012 Prea...

San Antonio uses a 24-0 run in the third quarter to take control of game during a 96-86 victory that puts the Clippers on the brink of elimination. No team in NBA history has come back to...

President Obama and leaders of the world’s other leading economies Saturday embraced a policy of growth over austerity in Europe as they met on the cloistered grounds of Camp David ...

The service, held on a beautiful spring morning, was private, but the list of celebrities attending was a testament to both Kennedy star power, and Mary's knack for friendship. Family and...

Senator Scott Brown has discovered in his first two years in office that his considerable political charms have not always helped him navigate a clubby Senate chamber.

US Senator Scott Brown has turned questions over Democrat Elizabeth Warren's claims of Native American ancestry into a key strategy, to the exclusion of nearly all others, in his bid to r...

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More than 200 people came together in a University of Auckland chapel in New Zealand on Saturday to mourn the loss and celebrate the lives of three Boston University students killed a wee...

Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez submitted a letter to the Miami Beach commission, saying he would resign in May 2013. Several of the commissioners said that is unacceptable.

It’s not about whether LeBron James or Shane Battier guards Carmelo Anthony.

Hoping to explain their plans to win over the country’s 12 million Hispanic voters, Republicans instead muddied their message on the sensitive subject of immigration.

The governor’s chief of staff, Steve MacNamara, used his Senate clout to sign a contract for a web-based budget system developed by the business partner of a friend

The University of Miami medical school plans to lay off up to 800 workers in administration and research to deal with reduced government and private funding.

Chicago Police and NATO protesters clashed repeatedly in a series of pushing and shoving confrontations Saturday night in the Loop following a day of cat-and-mouse marches that tested the...

Viciedo, Pierzynski and Dunn homers power Danks to 7-4 victory over Cubs Dayan Viciedo did his part for international diplomacy Saturday night, although he sure did nothing to soothe the ...

Ten people were injured this afternoon when a large group of people wielding bats and hammers burst into a south suburban restaurant and attacked a group of diners, according to officials...

Three women and a man died and two others were seriously injured in a car crash early this morning, according to authorities.

A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed Friday night while he and a friend were riding their bikes in the Brighton Park neighborhood, according to the victim's older sister.

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According to KTRK-Channel 13, a 6-year-old boy drowned Saturday at Trails at Dominion Park Apartments, in the 200 block of Dominion Park Drive in north Harris County.

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Administrators at a Dallas-area high school confiscated school yearbooks for describing students’ disabilities and listing some as “mentally retarded” in a section meant to honor classmat...

(05-18) 14:41 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what...

(05-19) 16:33 PDT MIAMI (AP) -- The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts "to codify discrimination or hatred into the l...

Gov. Jerry Brown backed off a plan to phase out and eventually shutter the state's shrinking Division of Juvenile Justice after criticism from county officials who warned the closure woul...

(05-19) 18:33 PDT BALTIMORE (AP) -- I'll Have Another did just that, winning another Triple Crown race with even more flash and dash than he did in the Kentucky Derby. By surging past Bod...

(05-19) 19:50 PDT , (AP) -- Since Affirmed last won horse racing's Triple Crown in 1978, 11 3-year-olds have won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness _ but fallen short in the Belmon...

The charges against Msgr. William J. Lynn are narrow: that the former Archdiocese of Philadelphia official endangered children by letting two priests live or work in parishes despite sign...

Ryan Howard felt a tiny pinch Sept. 18 when a team physician's needle penetrated the numbed surface of a left heel that had been throbbing red-hot for weeks.

NEW YORK - Michael Jackson was the King of Pop. Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul. Like them, Donna Summer, who died Thursday of lung cancer at 63, was given a title befitting musical...

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Thief videos released Police on Friday released a pair of surveillance videos in hopes of finding a burglar who struck two Vietnamese restaurants on the same block in South Philadelphia t...

CHICAGO (AP) -- World leaders weary of war will tackle Afghanistan's post-conflict future - from funding for security forces to upcoming elections - when the NATO summit opens Sunday....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to th...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to ...

CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must b...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A blind Chinese legal activist who escaped house arrest, endured a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle and a hurried daylong flight paused ever so briefly upon his arrival...

Didier Drogba scored the winner in a dramatic penalty shootout as Chelsea beat Bayern Munich Saturday to win the European Champions League for the first time.

A strong earthquake struck northern Italy early Sunday, leaving at least six people dead, authorities said.

Two suspects in a fatal bombing outside a school in Italy have been identified, a prosecutor said.

Iran's finance minister tells CNN oil prices could rise as high as $160 a barrel over the summer thanks to sanctions over its nuclear program.

The road map out of the war in Afghanistan is expected to be drawn up U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders gather in Chicago on Sunday for a summit that will chart a path out of Afghanistan, as Western nations seek to fend off fissures in their alliance and ens...

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a gl...

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight major economies raised the pressure on Iran on Saturday, signaling their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quic...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Be...

BONDENO, Italy (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rocked a large swathe of northern Italy early on Sunday, killing at least three people and causing serious damage to the area's cultural her...

Three men accused of building Molotov cocktails were planning attacks at President Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters and at the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel during this weekend'...

WASHINGTON — There were a couple new faces in town at the annual Group of Eight summit, and a couple new allies for President Obama, who has been urging Europeans to follow America’s lead...

It was to have been the dawn of a new era, private companies launching into space and on to the International Space Station. The first such launch was set for before dawn this morning, an...

I'll Have Another wins Preakness, keeps Triple Crown bid alive

Self-taught lawyer at center of recent U.S.-China tussle arrives at Newark airport with family

Activists were accused of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot to attack President Obama's campaign HQ and other targets

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Facebook CEO marries his long-time girlfriend a day after the company goes public

In these tough economic times, the votes of young college graduates are up for grabs

A war-weary U.S. faces off with wary NATO allies in Chicago about money and support for Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops withdraw in 2014.

A series of quakes struck just north of Bologna, Italy, on Sunday, and authorities are reporting several deaths.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday, wedding longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan.

Two weeks ago, J. Paul Reddam's I'll Have Another ran down pacesetter Bodemeister to take the Kentucky Derby under the Twin Spires at Churchill Downs. On Saturday, I'll Have Another took...

A tropical storm watch was issued for the South Carolina coast after Alberto formed, bringing an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg marries girlfriend of nine years in a surprise ceremony Facebook's Overnight Millionaires Begin Lavish Spending Spree

Scientists call ship one of the most well-preserved, as gin, wine bottles and muskets are found near the wreck

Group of Eight world leaders warns North Korea it faces more sanctions if it continues with provocative acts like failed long-range rocket launch in declaration on results of the two-day ...

Historic civil rights group backs gay marriage, as board members cite commitment to equality for all Gay Marriage Big Voting Issue in Colorado Obama Takes Women's Issues From Campaign Tra...

At least three people dead and some buildings damaged after 6.0-magnitude quake hits northern Italy

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York, after his escape to the US embassy in Beijing last month sparked a diplomatic crisis.

US President Obama wraps up a G8 summit saying that leaders agree economies must focus on jobs and growth to boost recovery.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ends a hectic week by getting married to long -time girlfriend Priscilla Chan in a surprise ceremony at his home.

The US firm SpaceX aborts the lift-off of its Falcon rocket and Dragon ship to the International Space Station.

The highest court in Maryland allows gay couples to divorce, even though same-sex marriage is not yet allowed in that US state.

Speaking from a UPS customer center, President Obama announces a new public-private program, the Green Fleet Partnership, and discusses his Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future that will...

The President today laid out a number of measures to help America shift to a clean energy economy, reducing our dependence on oil, protecting our planet, and spurring economic growth thr...

Figures released by the U.S. Labor Department, this morning, show that unemployment has fallen to 8.8% . Speaking earlier today, President Obama said: Nearly two years after one of the w...

Today, the U.S. Labor Department announced that our economy added 216,000 jobs in March, marking 13 consecutive months of growth and totaling more than 1.8 million jobs created over that...

Speaking this afternoon, the President will highlight the National Clean Fleets Partnership—you can watch the speech live online here . The National Clean Fleets Partnership is a p...

U.S. diplomats can breathe a little easier knowing Chen Guangcheng is in the U.S. and that weeks of difficult negotiations and high drama are behind them. Chen arrived Saturday with his w...

One of the strongest earthquakes to shake the region struck around Bologna early Sunday. The magnitude-6.0 temblor killed at least three people, toppled some buildings and sent residents ...

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's board voted at a leadership retreat in Miami to back a resolution supporting marriage equality, calling the position consi...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday. Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif.,...

Clay Johnson, author of "The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption", discusses with Hari Sreenivasan how abundant technology affects our health -- producing pulsing side effe...

In this week's Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks and NewsHour's Christina Bellantoni discuss the end of two campaigns. Watch Video In ...

Prosecutors released this week more than 200 pages of photos, eyewitness accounts and investigative reports in the case of Trayvon Martin's killing in Florida. The Washington Post's Sari ...

Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's top political news including a recent Obama campaign video that tries to debunk Mitt Romney'...

President Obama outlined Friday a private-public partnership to work on global poverty issues ahead of the Group of Eight summit in Camp David this weekend. Ray Suarez and USAID Administr...

President Barack Obama is in his home town of Chicago, Illinois, where he will host leaders of the 28 trans-atlantic allies for the NATO summit beginning Sunday. Mr. Obama arrived in Chic...

An international human rights group has accused Egypt's military of beating and torturing protesters arrested during a huge rally near the Defense Ministry in Cairo earlier this month. Th...

THURMONT, Maryland - As U.S. President Barack Obama finished meetings with leaders from the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations and African heads of state at the Camp David retr...

​​ Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has arrived in the United States, saying he is gratified that the Chinese government showed restraint and calm in dealing with his situation. Ch...

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Barack Obama says the leaders of the world’s biggest economies are beginning to agree that more jobs and more growth will help reverse Europe’s economic crisi...

May 18 (Bloomberg) -- William Black, associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Caroline Baum, Bloomberg View columnist, discuss banking refo...

May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Torrenzano, chairman and chief executive officer of the Torrenzano Group, says JPMorgan Chase & Co. will face months of fallout related to its large trading ...

May 18 (Bloomberg) -- David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect," says the goal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg "is to turn it into infrastructure for society." Kirkpatrick ta...

May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Lawrence Goodman, a former U.S. Treasury official and president of the Center for Financial Stability, a research firm, says "it is very difficult for Greece to demo...

May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Pablo Goldberg, head of emerging-market research at HSBC Holdings Plc in New York, says among emerging markets, Chile is more reactive to what happens in Europe. Gol...

Before diverting your child's college savings fund to invest in Facebook stock, read our take on the biggest "liquidity event" of the social-media era

Despite its association with something everyone hates, Hormel's lunchmeat has not only survived, it's thrived

The man who plans to relaunch the iconic 80s sports car is expanding the DeLorean brand into luxury, two-wheeled transportation

President Obama’s campaign rhetoric undercuts the vision for bilateral affairs he laid out just 18 months ago

Despite intensifying drama, Greece could still end up sticking with the euro

n?s wealth and expatriation make him an ideal candidate to host a new reality show:??America's????Top Tax Lawyer. Sure, there are lawyer shows, but not about??tax??lawyers. They tried a??...

If you want to know where the web is going, one clue is to look at the personal sites of top-tier web designers. And one trend that just bubbled to the surface is large body type. Jeffrey...

Toyota?s Scion is growing up. The marque, hatched in 2003 as the company?s ?youth? brand, remains its forward agent among the American Millennial generation ? but in a new approach to the...

?? In a quiet backyard celebration , CEO of married his long-time girlfriend, Pricilla Chan at his home in Palo Alto, today.?? Guests were told they were celebrating Chan's graduation fro...

Men in Black III hits American theaters on May 25th, but in Moscow the fun is already beginning. Well, the fun is beginning on the red carpet anyways. At the Moscow premiere of the film, ...

Merkel resists efforts by other G8 leaders to push eurozone to do more to stimulate growth

Departure of Chen and his family brings to an end the worst diplomatic spat between Beijing and Washington in over a decade

Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group’s shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday

Value of bad loans held by banking sector increased a third during the past year to €148bn and accounted for 8.4% of their entire loan portfolios

The Pentagon report says the country will continue to be an ‘aggressive and capable’ collector of sensitive US technological information

Europe will keep its chokehold on financial markets in the week ahead as investors size up Greece’s commitment to the euro zone. Europe will keep its chokehold on financial markets in the...

Is Trump's Pre-Nup Advice to Zuckerberg Any Good?

Facebook IPO Scrutiny? The Secret Genius of FB

An earthquake measuring around 6 hit northern Italy, killing at least three people and injuring at least 50, media reports say.

Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident whose escape from 19 months of house arrest has tested Chinese-U.S. relations, has arrived in the U.S., ending a month-long diplomatic dispute, acco...

After the worst week of the year for U.S. stocks, investors will be looking for signs of whether the U.S. economy can continue to recover in the face of ongoing uncertainty about Greece, ...

G-8 leaders begin talks at Camp David with the euro zone crisis among key discussion points.

Three men are accused of a terror plot ahead of Sunday’s NATO summit in Chicago, according to media reports.

Brazilian steelmaker Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA (USIM5.BR, USIM3.BR, USNZY) on Saturday restarted operations at a chimny in blast furnace number 2 at is plant in Cubatao, Sao ...

In his most partisan remarks since J.P.

Credit Suisse AG (CS, CSGN.VX) has informed Argentine conglomerate Grupo Petersen that it must pay back loans used to buy a stake in oil company YPF SA (YPF, YPFD.BA) after it missed a $4...

ConocoPhillips (COP) is expected to make an additional $5 billion investment to ramp up its operations in Malaysia, the New Straits Times daily reported Saturday citing Malaysia's Prime M...

The Queensland government has withdrawn its support for a 9 billion Australian dollar (US$8.86 billion) coal port expansion in the northern part of the state, in a sign the country's reso...

A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs’ domination THE dinosaurs, famously, went out with a bang. Some 65.5m years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, the Earth coll...

Demography may not quite be destiny, but it makes a big difference to countries’ economic prospects. Many emerging economies are in the sweet spot of a demographic transition, wher...

Richard Corliss counts down the 10 greatest films made since the year 2000

Chen Guangcheng's New Home: A Soviet-Style Complex in Greenwich Village

Solar Eclipse: 'Ring of Fire' Coming Sunday

As Greek politicians tried in vain to form a coalition government this week, the Olympic torch made its way across the country -- reminding Greeks of better times.

G-8 Summit: Is China the New Power?

Rebranding the webslinger for 2012.

Meet the family leading Russia’s opposition.

We the people want our leaders to lead.

Forget underpants. Al Qaeda’s diabolical new plan.

Laila Lalami discovers a metropolis at once foreign and familiar.

There's another outbreak of craziness surrounding Obama's birth certificate.

Successful mission to the space station would be a first for commercial spaceflight.

Global powwows are often highly orchestrated, but there's a lot at stake for Obama at NATO summit.

J.P. Morgan's loss doesn't mean more regulation is needed

Hybrids cost more upfront but are cheaper to operate than nonhybrids. The federal government has launched FuelEconomy.gov so consumers can calculate the payback period for buying a hybr...

Health-care bills taking a swipe and President Obama's health-care program passed the Missouri legislature this week. One allows employers to refuse health insurance for birth control; t...

Now that Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has reached the United States, both Beijing and Washington are hoping to put what could have been a tense diplomatic situation behind them.

Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the d...

A war-weary US faces off with wary NATO allies in Chicago about money and support for Afghanistan after US combat troops withdraw in 2014. Don't expect any "Mission Accomplished" speeche...

I'll Have Another did just that, winning another Triple Crown race with even more flash and dash than he did in the Kentucky Derby.

Kevin Durant scored 31 points and hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 13.7 seconds left and the Oklahoma City Thunder seized control of the second-round series with a 103-100 victory over...

I'll Have Another did just that, winning another Triple Crown race with even more flash and dash than he did in the Kentucky Derby.

Pacers reserve guard Lance Stephenson has apologized to his coach for making a choking gesture toward LeBron James during Indiana's Game 3 win over Miami.

Game 4 between the Clippers and Spurs, scheduled for Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Staples Center, would be moved to Monday if the hockey game between the Kings and Coyotes delays the start of ...

Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Mark Ellis was placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday following emergency surgery to remove pressure on his left leg, and will remain hospitalized ...

Clayton Kershaw outdueled Jake Westbrook with a six-hitter for his fourth career shutout, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers over the St. Louis Cardinals 6-0 Saturday night.

Manny Ramirez went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts in his first minor-league rehab game for Triple-A Sacramento on Saturday.

David Ortiz homered, singled and drove in two runs to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 7-5 win over Philadelphia, snapping the Phillies' six-game winning streak Saturday night.

Justin Maxwell hit one of Houston's season-high three homers to put his team on top in the fifth inning and the Astros held on for a 6-5 win over the Texas Rangers on Saturday night.

Durant talks about big 3-pointer

Jimmie Johnson discusses his team's seven-day run of success.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. proud of Showdown victory, all-star segment win and top-five finish.

Pair gets notice with all-star race runs.

Brad Keselowski holds head high after finishing second behind a five-time Cup champ.

Postnuptial agreements aren’t as silly as they might seem, writes Jacoba Urist, provided you do your homework first.

The president talked of shifting from Europe to Asia. But that idea has faded as the G-8 and NATO meetings loom. Good riddance, says Leslie H. Gelb.

How Iran’s army is infiltrating Latin America.

He’s not yet divorced, but the former VP is said to be dating Elizabeth Keadle. What we know about Liz.

Got Your 6 blends politics, propaganda, and Hollywood self-righteousness, writes Roy Scranton.

BEIJING (Reuters) - While the blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng on Sunday enjoyed his first hours in New York after years of jail and detention, relatives and supporters back...

World leaders weary of war will tackle Afghanistan's post-conflict future — from funding for security forces to upcoming elections — when the NATO summit opens Sunday.

A restive district of the Syrian capital that has been a hotbed of dissent against President Bashar Assad was rocked by fighting overnight between government forces and army defectors, o...

Italian police have arrested two suspects over the bombing of a school that killed a 16-year-old girl and seriously injured five more teenagers, media reports said here Sunday.

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Alberto is churning off the Southeastern U.S. seaboard as a tropical storm watch continues on a stretch of South Carolina coast.

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WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard gradu...

LOS ANGELES — Kevin Durant stood above the 3-point line and watched the shot clock dwindle in the final seconds of Game 4. When Metta World Peace backed up slightly on defense, Dur...

Wisconsin's biggest newspaper released an editorial on Saturday recommending that voters choose to keep Governor Scott Walker in office. (Read the whole thing here .) "No governor in rec...

This week, Facebook went public with the third largest IPO in history. On the downside of the ledger, Moody's downgraded more than three-dozen Spanish and Italian banks, and JPMorgan's tr...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven 3-year-olds have won the Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes). Nineteen have failed by losing in the Belmont. How they raced in the Belmont....

Mitt Romney isn't very far into the vice presidential selection process. But according to a dedicated band of conspiracy theorists, the pick is all-but a lock: Sen. Marco Rubio.

Leaders agree on oil, global economy.

Could the Texas congressman's revolution march on without him?

Three men arrested in Chicago allegedly had plans to attack Obama's campaign headquarters.

It comes in the wake of President Obama's public endorsement of same-sex unions.

At least 30 people died in a staggering surge in drug-related violent crime in Mexico rocking the cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara, and the northern state of Chihuahua, police said Sat...

A senior White House official on Saturday criticized Iran's refusal to let opponents of the regime hold a rally in support of Arab uprisings. "By announcing that they will not allow oppos...

Speaking to conservatives, Paul warns US government 'in the process of failing' For the second year running, Texas congressman Ron Paul came out on top among conservative Republicans in a...

Without court oversight, the nation's top law enforcement agency can obtain domestic records of telephone conversations made to international receivers, the Justice Department claimed rec...

WASHINGTON – A scheduled high-level meeting among U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officials this month has been postponed, the State Department said on Saturday amid a deepening diplomatic rif...