By Christi Parsons
The Obama administration plans to purchase a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., regardless of whether Congress allows terrorism suspects...
By Andrew Zajac
Taking aim at the tobacco industry's youth marketing machinery, the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday outlawed free samples of...
By Noam N. Levey and Michael Muskal
Healthcare overhaul will cut the federal deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years, top Democrats said on Thursday as they unveiled a...
By Jeff Coen
A U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he scouted targets in advance of the coordinated terrorist...
Associated Press
A cruise liner hit by an outbreak of stomach illness for the third trip in a row has returned to port in South Carolina.
The picture of an economy growing modestly without producing inflation yet struggling to create jobs emerged from government reports...
By Christi Parsons and Peter Nicholas
President Obama was certain that he wanted to pass a healthcare bill. The question before his advisors was how to go about it.
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Even with tuberculosis cases falling sharply in the United States to historic lows, strains of drug-resistant disease are gaining ground...
By Robert Faturechi
Months have passed since the city of Pontiac prompted a loud national guffaw with the sale of its crown jewel, the colossal Silverdome...
By Janet Hook and Noam N. Levey
President Obama and Democratic leaders gathered momentum for their sweeping healthcare overhaul Wednesday, picking up support from...
By Baxter Holmes
Your foot strikes the ground about 1,500 times when running a mile. It strikes the ground about 39,300 times when running 26.2 of them....
A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that a northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutor may not pursue felony charges against a teenage girl who...