WASHINGTON (AP) — A crucial first Senate vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a rare Saturday...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A powerful anesthetic recovered from Michael Jackson's bedside after he died had been purchased in Nevada by his doctor who had it shipped to California, court documents...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.

During Christmas seasons for decades, these...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An astronaut is gearing up for the first spacewalk of his career while awaiting the imminent birth of his daughter.

Atlantis crewman Randolph Bresnik...

KABUL (AP) — Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious...

BEIJING (AP) — A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 37 people and trapping 71 others nearly a third of a mile under ground.

The...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clippers longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler and color analyst Michael Smith were suspended one game by the Fox Sports Prime Ticket cable network for their...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities say 11 people confirmed dead in coal mine explosion, 128 trapped.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities say 11 people confirmed dead in coal mine explosion, 128 trapped.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that's thrilled...

DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge...

DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Pat Farnelli says there's something in the water at her house. The last time she drank it, she says she vomited four times. It's made her...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the Internet holiday shopping season nearing, a Senate committee Tuesday condemned three online companies, saying they are...

MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the...

If you missed out on Washington's cash incentive program to trade in your old clunker, Uncle Sam still has a deal for you: The government will sell you rejects from its own fleet, even as it...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight years after the 9/11 attacks brought a new focus on security at airplane maintenance facilities — and six years after Congress first required action — the...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Atlantis is closing in on the International Space Station.

Atlantis will do a pirouette for the station cameras late...

BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (AP) — Intrawest ULC has agreed to sell its Copper Mountain ski resort in Colorado to Powdr Corp.

Intrawest, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, said Tuesday...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House rebuked Israel with heavy criticism Tuesday after the Jerusalem city government moved toward the construction of 900 additional...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump ended his war with bondholders of the casino company that bears his name, settling Tuesday for 10 percent of Trump Entertainment Resorts...

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and 12 local labor unions have inked an agreement that will pay union workers prevailing wages to build Honolulu's rail transit project while...

NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is teaming with billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest $500 million to provide thousands of small business owners...

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State University athletic director Ed Czekaj, who was credited with helping coach Joe Paterno build the football team for its success...

JARRATT, Va. (AP) — A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For the first time, a miniature heart pump shows the potential to become a widely used, permanent treatment for many older people with severe...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Soros Fund Management LLC, the hedge fund run by billionaire investor George Soros, increased its holdings in U.S. stocks to $6.2 billion from $4.2 billion and bought...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are looking at swelling deficits further, at least temporarily, on a jobs-producing bill in response to double-digit unemployment and a sense within their...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' governor said Tuesday that the threat of a lawsuit over education funding won't influence the spending cuts he'll make to keep the current state budget in...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press laid off an undisclosed number of news employees Tuesday as part of the cooperative's yearlong plan to cut worldwide payroll expenses by 10...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

The people spoke on...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Cuts in state funding for education mean teachers at one northeastern Oklahoma school now must clean their own classrooms while their superintendent scrubs the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Fans in Sarah Palin's home state turned out as early as possible Tuesday to snap up copies of her highly anticipated memoir.

Curiosity drove Natalie...

BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama's first visit to China underscored a shifting balance of power: two giants moving closer to...

CHICAGO (AP) — Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city's school board president a suicide...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Concur Technologies Inc., which makes corporate expense-management software, said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose as revenue got a boost from a 13...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Tuesday that efforts to strengthen the global financial system to prevent another deep crisis...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Dickinson construction materials company ignored years of Internal Revenue Service warnings before the corporation and its executives were indicted for tax fraud, a...