Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dared Republican John McCain to keep attacking his character, saying Americans are more con- cerned with the economy.
The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede.
Gov. Sarah Palin violated a state ethics law by using the governor's office to try to get a state trooper fired, according to a newly released report.
Two former military linguists said they were involved in monitoring phone calls made by American military officers, journalists and aid workers.
Washington's actions haven't quelled financial fears. The next steps could include buying up foreclosed pro...
As the Iraqi election cycle nears, highly targeted and sophisticated political assassinations are supplanti...
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, told jurors that senators have 'absolute faith' in Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska...
Iraqi leaders met a U.S. progress benchmark by approving a law that makes Jan. 31 the deadline for holding ...
The financial crisis could force legislators and the next U.S. president to make tough decisions on militar...
A federal judge has ordered the release and transfer to the U.S. of 17 China-born Guantánamo detainees.
Reaching out to an anxious nation, John McCain and Barack Obama vied in a spirited debate Tuesday over who ...
Jerome Corsi, the controversial author of a much-criticized book slamming Sen. Barack Obama, was detained i...
Further restricting the use of cold medicines for young children, drug companies now say they shouldn't be ...
Secretly recorded telephone conversations between friends of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens were played in court.
A wayward manatee is headed home to Florida after being pulled from frigid Cape Cod waters in an early morn...
Authorities say a jet boat that was spotted zipping across a Michigan river smashed into a dock, killing th...
Pioneering Oregon winemaker David Lett, widely considered the father of Oregon's thriving pinot noir indust...
Five people, including three young children, died in an apartment fire early Saturday, some taking refuge f...
No skyscrapers jut from this low-lying federal city, allowing iconic buildings like the Washington Monument...
A Japanese businessman charged with plotting the murder of his wife in Los Angeles 27 years ago hanged hims...
A homeless man died after being doused with gasoline and set on fire on a street where he had lived for man...
When financial panic sweeps Bedford Falls in the 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life," the villain, Mr. Potte...
While all eyes Thursday were on Wall Street's plunge, its cause is being felt across America as the snowbal...
The tiny Uighur community in the Washington, D.C. area has been largely anonymous, but is suddenly in the s...
Reacting to a U.S. court order to transfer Uighur Muslims to the United States, China said it respects the ...
The U.S. sent home two detainees from Guantánamo, while seeking a stay on an order to bring 17 other...
An appeals court put the brakes on a federal judge's plan to transfer 17 Uighur detainees at Guantán...
A federal judge has ordered the release and transfer to the U.S. of 17 China-born Guantánamo detainees.
Abdul Salam Zaeef, a top Taliban envoy, had a meeting in Saudi Arabia with Saudi King Abdullah.
Unlike recent years, the court hasn't yet scheduled a Guantánamo Bay or obvious national-security case, tho...
War court prosecutors argue that Osama bin Laden's driver shouldn't get credit for time served at Guant&aac...
A Pentagon appointee Friday spurned a prosecutor's request for a death penalty trial in approving war crime...
Former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, a Democrat, said an Obama administration might keep Secretary Robert ...
Marine Corps judge declines to recuse himself from the 9/11 mass murder trial despite argument from alleged...
Even as the Pentagon resumes pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 case, the military is still dogged by what to d...
