NEW YORK — American teens are smoking less, drinking less and fighting less. But they’re texting behind the wheel and spending a lot of time on video games and computers...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama vowed Friday that the United States would not be “dragged back” into military action in Iraq as long as leaders in Baghdad refuse to ...
NEW YORK — Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actress and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio, television and film, has died at age 91, according to he...
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home, fulfilling a goal he made f...
WASHINGTON — Repudiated at the polls, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced Wednesday that he will resign his leadership post at the end of next month, clearing th...
Loan refinancing remains far away
WASHINGTON — Divided along mostly partisan lines, the Senate refused Wednesday to take up a Democrat-backed bill that would have enabled...
House, Senate seek quick approval
WASHINGTON — After two overwhelming votes in two days, members of Congress say they are confident they can agree on a bill to improve ve...
Ore. community was put on edge
TROUTDALE, Ore. — They stopped in fire lanes, on medians, in spaces so tight one man wedged his sedan between two cars and climbed out of h...
Entrepreneur backs reform
LOS ANGELES — The man behind the successful lawsuit to declare California’s teacher-tenure laws unconstitutional is a wealthy Silicon Valley ent...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The truck driver charged in the fatal crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that also injured comedian Tracy Morgan and several other people was schedul...
