LOS ANGELES – With the massive wildfire burning north of Los Angeles more than half contained, hand crews were working Sunday to keep the fire's eastern flank from crossing a rural mountain highway, a U.S. Forest ...

[caption id="attachment_2834" align="aligncenter" width="213" caption="White House press secretary Robert Gibbs"][/caption] WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's bottom line on a government health insurance option blurred Sunday as White House officials stressed support but stopped of short ...

KABUL – A roadside bomb and gunfire attack killed a U.S. service member in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a death that pushed August into a tie with July as the deadliest months ...

HYANNIS PORT, Mass./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats scrambled on Thursday to find a way to fill quickly the seat of Senator Edward Kennedy to shore up the drive to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, a top priority shared by ...

PHOENIX – Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sheriff's officials said Thursday they believe a woman who walked into a police station had been kidnapped as an 11-year-old in ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. – A Florida couple known for adopting special needs children struggled with armed intruders before they were led away to be gunned down, surveillance video shows. The video viewed Thursday by reporters shows Byrd Billings first put his arms in the air, then grapple with armed men who entered ...

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration says it will keep in mind the "raw sensitivities" of the families of Lockerbie bombing victims as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi prepares for a visit next month to the ...

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. – President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he wants to keep Ben Bernanke on as Fed chairman, saying he shepherded America through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. "Ben approached a financial system on the ...

[caption id="attachment_2616" align="aligncenter" width="213" caption="Obama reappoints \'bold\' Bernanke as Fed chairman"][/caption] WASHINGTON – The federal government faces exploding deficits and mounting debt over the next decade, White House and congressional ...