Following the Thanksgiving recess, the US Senate is braced for a difficult debate on the $848 billion healthcare reform bill. BY DAVID LIGHTMAN WASHINGTON -- The Senate is ready to begin a volatile, high-stakes healthcare debate that's sure to be ...

Reality or just a T-shirt slogan? As Sarah Palin fans line up to get their copies of her book signed, analysts are divided over whether the former Alaska governor is planning to run for president next time around.

For those of us who have tracked Islamic militancy in Europe, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's actions are not extraordinary. Since Muslim militants first tried to blow a French high-speed train off its rails in 1995, ...

There won't be any tearful goodbyes between Swarthmore native Henry Spelman and his sweetie when he heads to the University of Oxford next fall, after winning a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship on Saturday.

The late Edward Kennedy's son, Patrick, has been asked not to receive Holy Communion in a row with a Catholic bishop over his stance on abortion.

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Baker has picked state Sen. Richard R. Tisei as his running mate, according to his campaign Web site and Facebook page.

Dozens of student protesters who took over a UC Santa Cruz administrative building after a systemwide tuition increase were removed Sunday morning when police officers in riot gear ordered them to exit the building or face arrest.

Nine months after President Obama promised that his $789 billion stimulus package would be the most transparent spending bill in history, much of the information available to the public for the Bay Area and the rest of the nation is incomplete or ...

Oakland, CA (AHN) - The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has launched a probe on the arrest of a passenger over the weekend by one of its officers who appears in video to have pushed the man against a glass window.

AP BASTROP - Two inmates with drug-related convictions have fled from a federal prison facility about 30 miles southeast of Austin.

Megachurch Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty, whose network of schools spans across 911 campuses in 93 countries, passed away Sunday - just one month after he was diagnosed with cancer.

GREENCASTLE, PA- A Greencastle woman is in an Intensive Care Unit at a Tampa hospital after being hit by a car while visiting friends in Florida over the weekend.

DECATUR - Many of the festively wrapped shoe boxes were placed in larger boxes and readied to be shipped out today to children living in countries wracked by war, disease and poverty.

Today: Areas of dense fog reducing visibilities to less than 1/4 mile at times in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs 50 to 54. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Entertainment News from AP MONTGOMERY, AL (WBRC) - Governor Bob Riley and district attorneys from across the state are taking on electronic bingo.

MONTREAT, NC - Sarah Palin on Sunday dined and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham, who has counseled presidents and other politicians for decades.

When President Barack Obama announced he planned to close the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that raised the question -- where to send the facilities' terrorist suspects.

A 14-year-old boy, a man, 41, and a woman, 40, die in the crash in Sunland. A girl, 9, and a boy, 11, safely get out of the burning vehicle, possibly with the help of passersby.