NEW ORLEANS - Prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges Wednesday against the last two bouncers accused of suffocating a visiting Georgia college student to death after a dispute about getting into a F...
In this photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Brad Lindsey inspects a container at a pollution site on Goat Island, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. Teams have been working t...
Despite the struggling U.S. economy, the nation's richest Americans retained their wealth.In the 27th edition of The Forbes 400, the list of the richest Americans -- topped by Bill Gates -- starts at ...
The success of the government's $700 billion plan to buy toxic mortgages depends on a gamble - that, eventually, foreclosed homes will sell for enough money to pay back taxpayers. But if one...
President George W. Bush, hoping to secure his legacy but also help fire up Republicans in battleground Ohio a month before the presidential election, reminded Americans Monday that his eight years of appointing conservative judges will affect the United States for decades.
The first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, seen by an estimated 52.4 million viewers on Friday, was one of the first events of the presidential campaign that was not a huge TV hit.
Bill Clinton's annual summit of world leaders and celebrities opened Wednesday with the former president sharing the stage with the rock star Bono and dignitaries including Al Gore, who warned that humanity is struggling in the fight against climate change.
Republican presidential nominee John McCain told an audience Sunday that Barack Obama behaved more like a politician than a leader, both on matters of national security and on last week's near-meltdown of the U.S. financial system.
A sheriff's deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Kentucky taunted state police in an e-mail exchange Monday, saying he was going to "make them earn their money" in their search for him.
President Bush said administration officials would be talking to congressional leaders Tuesday on how to move a financial bailout package forward after Monday's rejection of the plan in the House....
Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
facing possible indictment for corruption, is expected to begin
the process of stepping down in favor of his party's chosen
successor, Tzipi Livni, as early as Sunday.
AP - Four tropical storms have wiped out most of Haiti's food crops and damaged irrigation systems and pumping stations, raising the specter of acute hunger for millions in the impoverished country.
PR Newswire -
Today the Pan American Health Organization and the Pan American Health and Education Foundation presented Dr. Cesar Victora of Brazil with the highly coveted 2008 Abraham Horwitz Award for Leadership in Inter-American Health for his outstanding dedication and contribution to maternal and child health in the Americas. The award was presented at the 48th Directing Council meeting of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) by the President of the Directing Council and Dr. Benjamin Caballero, Board Chair of the Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF).
A century and a half after California built its first railroad, the Golden State may be about to launch the most ambitious rail project undertaken by any state — a nearly 800-mile system of bullet trains that can top 200 mph.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ San Francisco's landmark universal health care program can continue to operate, after an appeals court ruled that it does not violate federal law.Tuesday's unanimous ruling by a t...
It's been touted for its antioxidant properties and green pedigree, but now some worry that the fruit's surging popularity could spell trouble for the rain forest.
A frenzy overtakes the teeming harbor here as a wooden-hulled riverboat chugs into port.
Thousands of people returned on Wednesday for the first time since their island city was blasted by Hurricane Ike nearly two weeks ago, choosing home over warnings that Galveston is "broken" and infes...
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