ISLAMABAD — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday he wants Pakistan to hand over a captured Taliban commander,...

Tornadoes have struck parts of Arkansas, injuring four people and destroying a handful of homes.

Virginia's General Assembly on Wednesday joined Utah in approving measures bucking attempts by Congress to implement a...

When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a...

MIAMI — The city's major hospital network, which runs Miami's only round-the-clock trauma center and is a safety net...

Kansas City board closing 29 schools

Say what you will about the half-baked scam perpetrated by Anna Ayala at a San Jose Wendy's five years ago, the finger she...

For soldiers patrolling in Iraq and Afghanistan, death can come from a bomb hidden in a trash pile or an innocent-looking...

A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a...

They just don't get it in Washington.

As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country,...

Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack...

Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the...

The highest court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that requires gun owners to lock...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Bennett has a proposal he says will "pull America back from the brink of economic disaster."

Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday,...

WASHINGTON — House GOP leaders are pushing rank-and-file Republicans to break their addiction to pet projects by going...