Senate candidate Alvin Greene indicted on obscenity charges

Alvin Greene, the unemployed veteran who shocked the South Carolina political establishment when he earned the Democratic nomination for the...

Gates: Reinvest defense savings in weapons systems

A Pentagon plan to reduce spending on civilian contractors could free up more than $10 billion in the next four years, according to...

Flood-hit Iowa city tells residents to stop wasting water

Ames officials implored residents Friday to do a better job of conserving water after historic flooding caused pipes to break and left the...

Blagojevich jury reaches verdict on 2 counts, is deadlocked on others

The federal jury in former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich's corruption trial has reached a verdict on only two counts in the case and is...

Target stores negotiate with gay-lesbian group over political spending

The bull's-eye is still on Target's back.

Senate passes border security bill

Congress gave final approval Thursday to a $600-million border security package that President Obama had sought to tighten the border with...

Banker tied to Rep. Waters answers critics

The banker at the center of the Rep. Maxine Waters ethics controversy is firing back at his critics, saying sex and drug cases against him...

Investigators arrive at Stevens crash site as another drama plays out on a faraway glacier

As investigators took advantage of improving weather Wednesday in southwest Alaska to reach the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted...

Whipping New York into shape

For all the Californians who thought they'd cornered the market on healthy living, meet Michael Bloomberg, the 108th mayor of New...

Police: Israeli man suspected in US stabbing spree is also suspect in attack in hometown

RAMLE, Israel (AP) — A man accused of going on a stabbing spree across three U.S. states and who was once suspected in a stabbing near...

Reid's GOP challenger tests 'tea party' appeal

After Sharron Angle scored a come-from-behind victory in June's U.S. Senate primary, political observers wondered if she'd cool her fiery...

Democrats hail election results as breakthrough

The White House and national Democrats were quick to celebrate Wednesday what they saw as a breakthrough in an otherwise bleak political...

$3 billion allocated for jobless homeowners

The Obama administration announced Wednesday that as part of an effort to stabilize housing markets it will send a $3-billion lifeline to...

Guantanamo jury recommends 14 years for Al Qaeda cook

A U.S. military jury recommended a 14-year sentence Wednesday for an Al Qaeda cook, but he could be released much sooner under a plea...

Arctic rocks shed light on ancient Earth's inner workings

Geochemists studying Arctic rocks say they have found evidence of ancient rock from the interior of the Earth that is nearly as old as the...

Oil cleanup comes with tensions in this Louisiana town

BP pledged to rid this semi-tropical coast resort's sensitive shorelines of oil — to "make things right," as the company put it. But...

Fingerprinting program now includes all border counties

Immigration officials now have access to the fingerprints of every inmate booked into jail in all 25 U.S. counties along the Mexican border,...

Anti-incumbent trend affects primary races

Establishment candidates struggled in four state primaries late Tuesday as anti-incumbent fever threatened to claim more political victims.