The Department of Defense has reaffirmed its decision not to award the Medal of Honor to a Marine who witnesses say threw himself ...

California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but ...

Americans are driving less despite falling gas prices, reflecting the deepening recession and signaling a shift in lifestyles ...

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles commissioner today backed off its denial of a woman's request for a personalized license ...

A 30-day age limit in the Nebraska safe-haven law appears headed for final approval.

Several generations of Robert F. Kennedy's family gathered Wednesday with some of the country's other Democratic elite including ...

A painting forcibly auctioned by Germany's Nazi government should remain with the estate of a late Jewish art dealer who lost ...

Opera-loving philanthropist Alberto Vilar was convicted on fraud charges Wednesday for swindling investors, including the mother ...

Jury selection resumed Wednesday, with a defense attorney looking to eliminate potential jurors he said dripped with "venom" ...

Baltimore police say they apprehended a man who got in a cab with a rifle, asked for a ride to Washington and mentioned the White ...

Colorado-based weather researchers say eight hurricanes formed in the Atlantic this year, the same number they predicted before ...

Ohio on Wednesday executed a man for the 1992 stabbing death of a collectibles store owner.

A court hearing is scheduled Wednesday afternoon for an 8-year-old boy accused of shooting his father and another man in rural ...

For the first time at Guantanamo, defense lawyers have seen a top-secret prison where the alleged 9/11 plotters and other high-value ...

The prostitute at the center of the scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer says she's required "intense" ...