Court rejects challenge to airport body scanners

A U.S. appeals court rejected a constitutional challenge to the government's use of body-imaging scanners at the nation's airports, ruling...

After 200 years, Somers Point fights for return of sailors' bodies

Even as the United States and its Western allies participate in a modern war in Libya, a small city in New Jersey and a congressmen are...

Obama, congressional leaders stop debt talks to consider options

President Obama and congressional leaders agreed to a cease-fire in debt negotiations to review which proposals seemed most likely to pass...

FBI opens inquiry into Murdoch's News Corp.

The phone hacking scandal that has ignited a political firestorm in Britain jumped the Atlantic on Thursday as the FBI opened an...

Gay couples in legal limbo with immigration

Bradford Wells, a retired computer programmer in San Francisco, has chronic health problems that threaten his life and an immigration...

Raising Medicare costs may be gaining traction

The heated debate over the federal deficit has pumped new life into controversial proposals for requiring Americans on Medicare to pay...

Giuliani's still not a candidate, but he sounds like one

Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has been coy about whether he'll jump into the 2012 presidential contest. With one failed race...

Justice Department seeks to keep enforcing 'don't ask, don't tell' for now

The Obama administration asked a federal appeals court late Thursday to suspend its decision last week ordering an end to enforcement of the...

Army private accused of trying to board plane with explosives

A 19-year-old Army private was charged Thursday with trying to board a Los Angeles-bound commercial flight with a small amount of...

Default risk widens rift within GOP

The once-vaunted unity of congressional Republicans has become a distant memory, crumbling under the pressure of the deadline to raise the...

Obama ends tense debt talks with a warning

President Obama abruptly left debt negotiations with congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House when a top Republican said there was...

Pills found to be highly effective in preventing HIV transmission

Taking a daily pill containing either one or two anti-HIV drugs can reduce transmission of the virus by as much as three-quarters among...

Obama far outpaces GOP candidates in fundraising

President Obama's reelection campaign raked in $86 million in the second quarter of the year, far eclipsing the amounts raised by his...

State legislative bills raise conservative group's profile

In late January, the Indiana House of Representatives adopted a resolution asking Congress to compel the Environmental Protection Agency...

Hasidic boy's slaying shocks Brooklyn neighborhood

New York — An 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who got lost while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was...

NRC issues nuclear safety recommendations

The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a dozen recommendations Wednesday to improve the safety of U.S. reactors, responding...

Theodore Roszak dies at 77; scholar coined the term 'counterculture'

Theodore Roszak, a historian, social critic and novelist who saw the youth rebellions of the late 1960s as a movement worthy of analysis and...

FDA reevaluating vaginal mesh implants

WASHINGTON – Following a spike in reported complications, the Food and Drug Administration released an updated advisory Wednesday...