Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed ...

It is the first time a Democratic candidate won the presidency without Missouri and could signal the end of the Show Me State's ...

Washington lawyer Eric Holder, a former deputy attorney general and U.S. prosecutor, is poised to be President-elect Barack Obama's ...

A 30-day age limit in the Nebraska safe-haven law appears headed for final approval.

Several generations of Robert F. Kennedy's family gathered Wednesday with some of the country's other Democratic elite including ...

A painting forcibly auctioned by Germany's Nazi government should remain with the estate of a late Jewish art dealer who lost ...

Mediators succeeded Wednesday in getting direct talks going between Russia and Georgia, pressing the two neighbors to resolve ...

Opera-loving philanthropist Alberto Vilar was convicted on fraud charges Wednesday for swindling investors, including the mother ...

Jury selection resumed Wednesday, with a defense attorney looking to eliminate potential jurors he said dripped with "venom" ...

Why does a Yugo have a defroster on the rear window?

Baltimore police say they apprehended a man who got in a cab with a rifle, asked for a ride to Washington and mentioned the White ...

Organizers of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial say former President Bill Clinton will help raise funds to complete the project ...

Weather forecasters are predicting a colder-than-normal start to winter in the eastern part of the United States.

A suspected U.S. missile launched sparked angry condemnation from Islamabad.

Government officials say a decorated federal immigrations officer has been arrested on drug distribution charges.

Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case headed into a fourth day of deliberations Thursday but talks halted when one juror fell ill; deliberations to resume Friday

Iran's state-run television says it successfully test-fired a "top secret" missile, the third in a week.

University cancels remainder of season after allegations that three players raped an exotic dancer at a party.

About 100 homes were being evacuated Wednesday morning as a small earthen dam in Calaveras County in northern California weakened by an overnight thunderstorm threatened to break.

A poor-quality video posted on the Internet Wednesday in the name of an extremist group claimed to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the burning body of a U.S. pilot on the ground after the crash of an Apache helicopter.

The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday for using the Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage girl, authorities said.

Former Iraqi dictator is cross-examined for the first time in the trial for the killings of Shiites in 1982.

Venezuelan authorities found the bullet-ridden bodies of three Canadian boys who had been kidnapped more than a month ago in the South American country, the justice minister said.

France's biggest trade unions set a 10-day deadline Wednesday for the government to revoke a divisive jobs law, threatening more protests and strikes that have spiraled into a national crisis.

A baby shower erupted into a fight among guests in which one man was shot and several other people, including the seven-months-pregnant guest of honor, were beaten with a stick, police say.