Cardinals have set Tuesday as the start date for the conclave to elect the next pope, a milestone in this unusual papal transition and an indication that even without an obvious front-runner, the card
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A burst of hiring last month added 236,000 U.S. jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January. The robust gains suggested that the economy can strengthen further de
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The Army has more than doubled its number of military and civilian behavioral health workers in the past five years, but a litany of shortcomings still plagues the force when it comes to diagnosing an
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It's Easter morning. A boy rouses his younger brother, and they run to the living room to find their baskets filled with - what else? - Peeps.
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Members of a U.S. Senate banking committee blasted federal regulators Thursday for allowing Europe's largest bank to dodge a potentially crippling criminal prosecution after i...
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As news spread Thursday that Facebook was undergoing a "facelift," users flocked to the site, with many commenting that they couldn't wait to see the new changes.
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Old arguments were rehashed in a new attempt to force the Washington Redskins to change their nickname and logo in a federal hearing on Thursday. Lawyers for Native America...
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As world leaders, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, are gathering in Caracas ahead of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's funeral Friday, large crowds o...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid praised Sen. Rand Paul's stamina and conviction after his nearly 13-hour filibuster, but some of Paul's Republican colleagues were less tha...
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The FBI is "monitoring" the investigation into the death of an openly gay mayoral candidate in Mississippi, opening the door to a possible prosecution as a federal hate crime.
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