OMAHA, Neb. — A doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia — the third American aid worker sickened with the virus — is sick but in stable condition ...
RICHMOND, Calif. — A commuter bus was hit by a stolen car and smashed into a San Francisco Bay area home as a mother and two small children sat inside Friday evening, se...
NEW YORK — Further tests are needed to pinpoint comedian Joan Rivers’ cause of death, the New York City medical examiner says.
Rivers, who was 81, died Thursday at Mount...
Enduring comic dies at age 81
Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpe...
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added just 142,000 jobs in August, snapping a six-month streak of hiring above 200,000 and posting the smallest gain in eight months.
The une...
CHICAGO — Removing both breasts to treat cancer affecting only one side doesn’t boost survival chances for most women, compared with surgery that removes just the tumor,...
States may take lead on health care costs
WASHINGTON — Borrowing a Republican idea, a group including former senior Obama and Clinton advisers is unveiling a novel propos...
NEW ORLEANS — Environmentalists, recreational fishermen and people who make their living on the Gulf of Mexico are hailing a federal judge’s ruling that could mean $18 b...
NEW YORK — Andrew Madoff, Bernard Madoff’s last surviving son, died of cancer Wednesday, years after turning his father in and insisting he had been duped like the rest ...
KITTERY, Maine — Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday said America will follow the terrorists who posted videos showing the beheading of two journalists “to the gates o...