There is always that one person that you hear about on the news or from a friend – the person who is skeptical of the United States government and believes that it is watching their every move....

Connecticut is back as the unanimous No. 1. The Huskies, who have won an NCAA women’s basketball record 84 straight games, received all 40 first-place votes in The Associated Press Top 25 poll Monday....

LOS ANGELES – Despite decades spent playing sober commanders and serious captains, Leslie Nielsen insisted that he was always made for comedy. He proved it in his career's second act. "Surely...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – "Sarah Palin’s Alaska" portrays the show’s heroine as an adventure-loving wife and mother enjoying a whirlwind of activities amid spectacular settings in her home state. There...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Retailers have a week to clear millions of dollars worth of alcoholic energy drinks from their shelves after state regulators banned them Wednesday, citing the hospitalization of nine...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for a deadly outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base...

The agenda was forty cities across thirty states in three days. No, this was not a typical road trip. On Nov. 4, the FBI set out on a nationwide prostitution undertaking with the Department of Justice,...

Keith Olbermann was back to hosting his MSNBC show Countdown on Nov. 9, after a controversial suspension over donating to political campaigns. On Nov. 5, Politico, a multimedia news organization, broke...

For over two thousand years, Pompeii has been a site of ashy ruins because of the inevitable eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Another tragedy has befallen this ancient city: another event that most experts say...

This Monday, President Barack Obama announced his support for India’s bid for a seat on the UN’s Security Council, hoping to elevate the nation to its "rightful place in the world." While some United...

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the price of gasoline is marching toward the high of the year. The national average for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline on Monday was just 3 cents shy...

WASHINGTON – Judges who hear Social Security disability cases are facing a growing number of violent threats from claimants angry over being denied benefits or frustrated at lengthy delays in processing...

WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles Rangel of New York walked out of his ethics trial Monday after pleading in vain for a postponement, saying his lawyers abandoned him because he ran out of money after paying...

After months of heated debates between Republican and Democratic candidates, the 2010 midterm elections have finally drawn to a close. Voters across the United States eagerly headed to the polls...

WASHINGTON – Scientists say they have for the first time tracked how certain nontoxic elements of oil from the BP spill quickly became dinner for plankton, entering the food web in the Gulf of...