Tiger Woods turned out to be the easy selection. Nor did US Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin shake the tree very much by inviting former major champions Stewart Cink and Zach Johnson to Wales.

After a 40-year decline, the US smoking rate has hovered around 20% since 2005, although states with aggressive tobacco control programs have seen their rates drop as low as 13%, Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for ...

Virginia Tech doesn't enjoy the trend, but the Hokies have gotten used to bouncing back from season-opening losses. The 13th-ranked Hokies look to recover from a high-profile defeat when they take on FCS opponent James Madison in their home opener ...

AP WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has congratulated Julia Gillard on becoming Australia's newest prime minister and on forming a government after a 17-day deadlock.

New concern about Europe's debt woes sent the euro down, pressured global stock markets and drove up borrowing costs for some European nations on Tuesday.

AP Texas News By AP © 2010 The Associated Press - Heavy rain will continue over north Texas on Wednesday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine continues to drift north, according to the National Weather Service.

Sept. 7, 2010 -- In adults and children over age 6 months, the H1N1 swine flu was no more severe -- and posed no greater risk of serious disease -- than recent seasonal flu bugs.

“Saturday Night Live” has finished casting its 36th season, hiring four new featured players while dropping a performer who was added to its ensemble last year.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday that his company was ready to launch Google TV this Fall in the US, and throughout the rest of the world during 2011.

Paul McCartney may be in the running for his own parking space in the White House lot: He's being honored yet again in the nation's capital, along with TV host Oprah Winfrey, country music stalwart Merle Haggard, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday denied a motion to lift an injunction he issued two weeks ago barring the government from funding research involving human embryonic stem cells.

More than a million take to the streets to protest the move, which Sarkozy says is needed to reduce the country's deficit. Private and public-sector workers demonstrate over pension reforms in Strasbourg, France.

By now we've been conditioned for the next stop on the Reggie Bush Farewell Tour. It's not how he planned to say goodbye. USC has expunged any visual evidence around Heritage Hall that he ever actually enrolled.

This morning's Internet mystery resides on Google's home page -- an animated version of its logo that consists of a swarm of bouncing balls that coalesce to form the company's logo.

Rahm Emanuel has never been shy about his ambition to be mayor of Chicago. He told me and a bunch of other people last year that he would run if Rich Daley decided not to seek a seventh term.

“I've been approached by some very large networks and production companies that are very happy to try to steal me away from Bravo,” she tells PEOPLE.

A voter steps out of the voting booth at a polling station at the Pine Street Pizza in Philadelphia, Tuesday, May 18, 2010. More Republicans voted in this year's statewide primary elections than Democrats, according to a new study, marking the first ...

Another International Atomic Energy Agency report serves up more data on Iran's atomic progress. Ho-hum. So, barring an epiphany of seriousness by the so-called international community, one of these days Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will usher his regime into ...