Readers ask about the details of Medicare savings, plus a cosmetic-surgery tax and limits on abortion coverage. By James Oliphant and Kim Geiger If the Senate bill is estimated to cost $848 billion over the next decade, how can Democrats say it will ...

Major Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 in the Fort Hood shooting spree, is paralyzed from the chest down and is not a flight risk, said his defense attorney after a hearing before a military magistrate in Hasan's hospital room ...

HEGANG, China - Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground Sunday as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese mine jumped to 87 - the deadliest blast to hit the beleaguered industry in nearly two years.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - When tickets to see Sarah Palin in Michigan ran out, people drove to her appearance here, three hours away. Barbara Stoutjesdyk posed next to Sarah Palin's bus on Wednesday in Grand Rapids, Mich.

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Students occupied a building Friday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in an escalation of protests over large fee increases at UC campuses statewide that echoed the unrest here during the 1960s.

SAN ANTONIO - A court-martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill patients at the Air Force's largest hospital.

NEW YORK - A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car early Saturday morning in midtown Manhattan, police said.

By REUTERS GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli planes carried out air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, injuring seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical workers said.

Iran's ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog says over 200 hospitals in the country urgently need higher-enriched uranium. As a timely reminder that obtaining higher-enriched uranium is a matter of great urgency for Iran, Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh said ...

Rudy Giuliani, former New York mayor and a Republican, is said to be weighing a Senate bid. Will his mayoral credentials help or hurt him?

WASHINGTON - Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was ...

Police said a Cape Air passenger plane ended up with its nose on the runway after making an emergency landing at Barnstable Municipal Airport on Saturday.

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Mr. Obama stressed that the US needs to place a greater emphasis on exports in order for the economy to grow.

"I'm not scared of what (self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed) would say at trial," Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee as he defended his decision to prosecute Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 planners ...

NEW DELHI: For the best part of a year, Italian investigators watched patiently over a nondescript business in Brescia, hoping that two men who played a critical role in guiding the terrorists to their targets in Mumbai last November would one day show ...

After four years of grappling with how to appeal to voters, a group of top Republicans believe they've found a winning formula for 2010.

Tamil civilians peep over a fence at an internment camp in Vavuniya yesterday. Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130000 people ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50 percent in a second major poll in an indication he is suffering from the long healthcare debate and weakness in the economy, Gallup said on Friday.

But given that some popularity polls have former vice presidential candidate - and ardent Obama critic - Sarah Palin nearly parallel with President Obama's approval ratings, the Army faced a ...