One of President Barack Obama's first acts is to order federal agencies to halt all pending regulations until his administration can review them.
With all the talk about a new fleet of electric cars coming down the �pike, Jacob in Denver is wondering: Is the nation's power grid ready for all these vehicles? The Answer Desk.
Sarah Palin, still smarting over coverage of her vice presidential run, calls the media's reporting on her family "very scary".
Killings dropped by a third here last year, making Wisconsin's largest city among the nation's most successful in tackling its 2008 murder rate.
Six recipients of Kennedy Center honors, including Barbra Streisand, are visiting the White House this weekend.
More than 2,000 World War II veterans and other observers have gathered in Hawaii to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
A hunter bagged a big buck on the second day of firearms season, but the kill caused him a lot of pain.
President-elect Barack Obama stood before tens of thousands in Chicago's Grant Park Tuesday night and told them: "Change has come to America."
In the hours before Election Day, as inevitable as winter, comes an onslaught of dirty tricks - confusing e-mails, disturbing phone calls and insinuating fliers left on doorsteps during the night.
Barring a major upset, Barack Obama will defeat John McCain on Tuesday and become America's first black president. That any doubt remains about his victory is, in many ways, astonishing.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's law banning a type of late-term abortion is getting another review by a federal appeals court.
Police in North Carolina had to halt traffic on a highway to help a mother bear get to her cub after it was struck and killed by a vehicle.
Airship Ventures Inc.'s zeppelin arrived in the Bay Area on Saturday, passing over the Golden Gate Bridge en route to its new home at Moffett Field.
Southern hospitality and much more! You thought a hurricane or two could keep this city down?
The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretc …
Four times in history, the winner of the popular vote didn't capture the most electoral votes, therefore losing the presidency.
An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base in 1957 was ordered to open fire on a UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain's National Archives.
Anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players who use Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles or played games that were illegally downloaded from file-sharing sites, according to the company.
A Connecticut football player who was an expectant father was stabbed to death early Sunday after an on-campus dance, just hours after helping his team to a homecoming victory.
The Navy is considering ending its ban on women serving aboard submarines, 16 years after it allowed female sailors onto surface combat ships.
Israel's military chief says all options remain "on the table" in dealing with Iran's nuclear program, indicating that the Jewish state hasn't ruled out the possibility of a military strike.
The nastiness of August's health care debate reaches into the U.S. Capitol as President Barack Obama tried to move his reform plan forward.
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