Obama stresses urgency of peace talks in speech to pro-Israel group

President Obama reassured a powerful pro-Israel group that America's support for the Jewish state's security is "ironclad" but insisted on a...

'You Light Up My Life' songwriter dead of apparent suicide

New York — Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" who was awaiting trial on suspicion of...

Gingrich hits bumps in presidential campaign

By the time Newt Gingrich got here, his first week as an official presidential candidate had been a doozy. He'd been skewered by members...

Obama's Israel speech fodder for the presidential election

Hours after President Obama gave a major speech on the Middle East, Rep. Michele Bachmann flooded Iowa with automated phone calls and posted...

Pope phones shuttle crew in 1st papal call to space

Pope Benedict XVI had a direct line to the heavens Saturday, with NASA's help.

U.S. soldier to plead guilty in killing of Taliban prisoner

An Army private accused of killing a Taliban prisoner last year in Afghanistan has agreed to plead guilty, according to his attorney, even...

Former IMF chief is released from jail

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is out of jail, but instead of living under house arrest in a ritzy Manhattan apartment building that his wife had...

Al Qaeda wanted to attack tankers, Bin Laden files show

Material seized when Osama bin Laden was killed show that Al Qaeda considered attacking tanker ships and other marine infrastructure last...

Congress to vote on extending Patriot Act

Congress is expected to vote next week to extend expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, which would allow the...

Supreme Court may hear case on tuition breaks for illegal immigrants

California's policy of granting lower, in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants who graduate from its high schools is facing a...

Obama and Romney lead the pack in fundraising

Frenzied fundraising by presidential contenders this week served to underscore the bracing reality of the 2012 campaign: When it comes to...

Shuttle astronauts take first of four spacewalks

Two shuttle Endeavour astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Friday for the first of four spacewalks to get the...

Small steps for paralyzed man, giant leaps for treating spinal cord injuries

A 25-year-old Los Angeles man paralyzed from the waist down after being hit by a car in 2006 has regained the ability to stand, take steps...

Irreconcilable differences at the end of the day: Men, women and housework

Men, it's your health and happiness or hers. Women, it's your health and happiness or his. At the end of the day, if there's housework to be...

Mississippi River crests at Vicksburg, with relief

The Mississippi River reached its crest at Vicksburg on Thursday without breaching its main levee or inundating the city, but academic...

GOP blocks Goodwin Liu from federal appeals court

Senate Republicans blocked a vote on the nomination of UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the federal appeals court in San Francisco,...

Reid rejects Boehner proposal for $2 trillion in spending cuts

Battle lines in federal debt talks sharpened markedly Thursday when the Senate's top Democrat rejected a proposal for $2 trillion in...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn to be released on $1-million bail

Shorn of his job and much of his reputation, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is expected to walk out of jail Friday and into house arrest after a...