President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders lobbied intensively for historic health care legislation Friday, striving to resolve a last-minute dispute over Medicare while gaining precious "yeses" less than 48 hours ahead of a climactic vote.
Calif. police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 old photos found in a serial killer's storage locker of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair.
The pope addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal — a message being watched by Catholics worldwide to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.
In their attempt to pass a sweeping health care overhaul this weekend, House Democrats are pushing a package of legislative fixes to lure undecided or opposed members of their party to the "yes" category.
A federal judge rejects a settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the deal shortchanges ground zero workers.
As the Red River swells again, Fargo, N.D., residents are weighing the National Weather Service forecasts. They are well aware that predicting what happens on the river is not an exact science.
Almost seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope.
Badgers defeat No. 13-seed Wofford 53-49, will face Cornell next.
Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.
A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith’s estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.
No. 12 Cornell shredded the 5-seed Owls, which came into the game ranked No. 1 in field-goal percentage defense, and grabbed the Ivy League's first NCAA tournament win since Princeton in 1998.
The mortgage holder for Nadya Suleman's $565,000 Southern California residence says he is starting foreclosure proceedings because the family hasn't kept up the payments.
One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamps homeless camps, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water and flooding latrines.
When news of the scandal broke in 2007, Winfrey said she had “lost confidence” in headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane and was “cleaning house from top to bottom.”
The so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators called on Israel to freeze all settlement activities and denounced Israel's aim to build new housing in East Jerusalem.
The brand-new Oscar winner isn't likely to experience any professional consequences from the public exposure of her personal pain. "If anything, it would engender a massive amount of sympathy toward her," said veteran publicist Michael Levine.
Who is Michelle "Bombshell" McGee? What little she's said about herself comes from the most unreliable of sources: profile blurbs and videos on adult and edgy Web sites. But one thing is constant: she projects the image of a woman with a hard-partying lifestyle.
A senior New York City police official apologizes for the 50 or so door-pounding visits police made to the home of a bewildered elderly couple.