CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts strapped into space shuttle Atlantis today for one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, an extraordinarily ambitious mission NASA...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama wants to see 5,000 failing schools close and reopen with new principals and teachers over the next five years.
Education Secretary Ar...
WASHINGTON — A Pentagon official said a U.S. soldier killed five fellow troops at American base in Baghdad.
The five were killed in a shooting this afternoon, Baghdad ti...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fueling started on space shuttle Atlantis for its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Atlantis is poised to blast off just after 2 p.m. ...
WASHINGTON — Peel it and weep: It'll cost an extra 2 cents to mail a letter starting Monday.
The price of a first-class stamp will climb to 44 cents.
It's the third year...
DETROIT — Chuck Daly, who coached the original Dream Team to the Olympic gold medal in 1992 after winning back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons, has di...
ST. LOUIS — Missouri's governor planned to tour damaged areas today as residents in parts of the Midwest clean up from powerful storms that splintered homes, knocked out...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to make Egypt the setting for a promised speech on U.S. relations with the Muslim world when he sets out on an overseas trip ea...
WASHINGTON — The pace of layoffs slowed in April when employers cut 539,000 jobs, the fewest in six months. But the unemployment rate climbed to 8.9 percent, the highest...
WASHINGTON — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge said today he's not going to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter next year.
Ridge is a moderate Republican who was the nation's ...
