The Republican presidential race is being shaken up again, with Mitt Romney retaking the lead, Newt Gingrich surging into second place, and Herman Cain dropping to third place, according to a new McClatchy-Marist nationwide poll released Friday.
President Barack Obama sided with business interests against the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday and ordered a sudden halt to a plan to toughen the Bush administration's limits on smog.
A project to compile oral histories of those connected to a hijacked plane that crashed into a Pennsylvania field on 9/11 will continue for at least three more years thanks to a $225,000 grant from The Heinz Endowments.
Prosecutors in Utah charged a FedEx Corp. driver with a threat of terrorism count over allegations he joked that a package he was delivering to a Utah Army base was likely a bomb.
From Penn State University’s athletic department to the halls of its Old Main administrative building, the university long has sought to control the public’s access to information about its inner workings.
As the nation celebrates U.S. workers this Labor Day weekend, many jobless Americans say they sense a growing indifference to their plight, and even a certain level of demonization.
Anchorage police say there's little doubt an 18-year-old woman was abducted after she closed up a coffee stand Wednesday night.
A convicted North Carolina killer who painted a picture of himself living the high life on death row in a letter to a newspaper tells a different story to family members, describing his life behind bars as "overwhelming" and "depressing," according to a letter made public Thursday.
Capitol Hill clash between Amazon.com and eBay complicates California's hopes for an online sales-tax fix. The fight flared Wednesday, underscoring how big differences between the Internet sales giants stand in the way of congressional efforts to help California and other states collect hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.
Adnan el Shukrijumah is an elusive, globe-trotting fugitive — sometimes called "the Elvis of al Qaida" — wanted by the FBI as one of the terrorist group's alleged leading operatives and the subject of lingering questions about his possible association with 9/11 hijackers before the attacks.
