The Republican Texas governor looked beyond differences that emerged on the campaign trail between himself and the former Massachusetts governor, including the financial industry bailout designed to keep “too big to fail” banks above water.
Military leaders are telling commanders to get their troops in line and refrain from misconduct such as urinating on enemy corpses, in a sharp response to the tasteless photos and other disturbing examples of bad behavior that have enraged Afghans and complicated war-fighting.
More teenage girls are waiting longer to have sex, according to a new report, and for those who have sex, more are using contraception.
PepsiCo Inc. is going on a reunion tour with the departed pop star.
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court after 191 years, is crusading to reverse what she says is an alarming decline in America's knowledge of democracy and announced an initiative Wednesday to educate children across the country.
Two farms have been quarantined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the agency continues to investigate last month's discovery of mad cow disease at a California dairy farm.
There are few places that illustrate the fragility of life better than a neonatal intensive care unit. Premature babies, hooked up to tubes and monitors, their tiny legs sticking out of the smallest of diapers: it's a sight can bring tears to your eyes and a prayer to your lips.
Charleston police have arrested two North Charleston men who are accused of dressing up as women and robbing three businesses within a period of four days.
Nine men have been charged with hazing for their alleged part in an initiation rite into a University of Florida fraternity earlier this year.
Forgotten in death or abandoned by their loved ones, unclaimed bodies are piling up in the Calcasieu Parish morgue. Their remains sit silently as investigators work to bring them to a final resting place.
Demi Moore is no longer (at)mrskutcher, in real life or on Twitter.
There is a growing epidemic among American children, and now there is a new recommendation on how hundreds of thousands of those kids should be treated.
It is among the most widely-recognized paintings in the world right up there with the Mona Lisa.
Vogue is making a commitment to using healthier models.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa has been busted for the second time in two weeks for alleged marijuana possession.
While the general election is just beginning, a new poll shows a very close contest shaping up in two critical states.
A new biography of President Barack Obama has some people asking if anything in a president's past is off limits.
Hamas has been holding secret political talks with five European Union member states in recent months, a senior official in the Islamic militant group told The Associated Press on Wedne
President Obama returned to the White House Wednesday morning from Afghanistan, where he signed a security agreement pledging U.S. support through 2024. Hours after he left Afghanistan, the Taliban set off a bomb in Kabul that killed seven civilians.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee characterized reports over the last day as "troubling developments."
Virginia, a state Obama won with almost 53% of the vote in 2008, is considered one of the most competitive general election states and Romney used his event in the commonwealth to take it to the president on issues intended to resonate with voters in the state.
U.S. officials said Thursday they are still trying to help a blind Chinese activist who says he fears for his family's safety, and denied he was pressured to leave the American Embassy to resettle inside China.
An environmental activist was arrested Wednesday after dropping a billowing smoke bomb onto the roof of a French nuclear reactor ahead of a key presidential election debate, Greenpeace and police said.
