House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, left, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, speak outside the White House following a meeting with US ...

A conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice is likely to keep his job after a county clerk said Thursday that she found more than 7500 more votes for him, putting the incumbent ahead of a challenger who had declared victory.

PLACERVILLE, Calif. - Phillip Garrido, the convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping and holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years, pleaded not guilty on Thursday as his lawyer challenged the composition of the grand jury that ...

FARGO (AP) - If any city is entitled to confidence that it can handle a major spring flood, it's this one. FARGO (AP) - If any city is entitled to confidence that it can handle a major spring flood, it's this one.

WASHINGTON -- The mail will still arrive, along with Social Security checks. Air traffic controllers will monitor the skies, and troops will report for duty at home and overseas.

Washington— Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday reassured US warfighters in Iraq that allowing gays to serve openly in the military will have little impact on the armed forces, an argument largely echoed by the top leaders of the Army, ...

On Wednesday evening, Mayor Bloomberg huddled closely with Joel Klein, his former schools chancellor and trusted confidant, at an event honoring the educator at The Pierre hotel in Midtown.

The federal budget stalemate that could trigger a government shutdown shifted Thursday from a debate over spending cuts to a fight over abortion and environmental regulation, which have divided Democrats and Republicans for years.

House version adds a 3 percent contribution, raises retirement age for special-risk employees, eliminates DROP July 1. Senate has tiered contributions between 2 percent and 6 percent based on income, closes DROP in 2016, reduces DROP interest earnings.

A New Mexico man drove the decomposing body of his paraplegic friend around for three days, unaware that she was dead despite what others described as an overpowering stench and a horde of flies around the body.

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump has hired a team of detectives and dispatched them to Hawaii to prove one thing -- that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States and, therefore, is ineligible to be president.

WASHINGTON - This week, as he launched his re-election campaign, President Barack Obama arranged to visit three of his favorite states: Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana.

The five new Bell City Council members, elected in the wake of the compensation scandal, must deal with the fiscal mess they inherited from former officials.

Richmond, Virginia - One hundred and fifty years ago, southern states declared their secession from the United States, which led to the bloodiest war in US history.

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Raucous protesters unhappy with proposed cuts in state-funded health services in Washington state took their case to the governor's office, where 17 were arrested Thursday, officials said.

Sulaimon Brown, the former mayoral candidate who says he was promised a city job to attack then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty in last year's campaign, stormed out of the John A. Wilson Building on Thursday after he ...

A longtime friend and golfing partner of President Obama's, Robert Titcomb, was arrested on a charge of soliciting prostitution after being swept up in an undercover operation in downtown Honolulu on Monday night, police officials said.

A 300-pound metal pipe encased in concrete is propelled into the air by some type of chemical reaction and crashes through the roof of a home next door to the Chabad House synagogue.

The conservative Minnesota congresswoman is considering a presidential bid. She would rely on home-schoolers, 'tea party' advocates and antiabortion activists.