Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.A...

Today is Monday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2009. There are 38 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 23, 1765, Frederick County, Md., beca...

_ Artist of the Year: Taylor Swift_ Pop-Rock:Male artist: Michael JacksonFemale artist: Taylor SwiftBand, duo or group: Black Eyed PeasAl...

Sarah Palin on Sunday dined and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham, who has counseled presidents and other politicians for decades.Graham had never met Palin, who is ...

A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an inc...

A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner's office said Sunday.Dashawn Vasconcellos, 18...

Authorities say a San Francisco area transit police officer who removed an unruly passenger from a train suffered cuts and a concussion when heavy-duty glass fell as the of...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant.Specialist John Wh...

The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2010, listed by geographic region:District 1:William J. Oppenheim III, New Canaan, Conn., Bowdoin Colle...

When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend. To share the good news, of course, but also to see whether she was a winne...

Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national p...

Sarah Palin was having dinner Sunday with the Rev. Billy Graham a day before a planned book tour stop in eastern North Carolina.The former Alaska governor and 2008 R...

Lawyer says 9/11 defendants will plead not guilty so they can express their political viewsNEW YORK (AP) — The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will p...

Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.Victim ID'd in fatal NYC subway seat stabbing

A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn.Authorities say some 30 passenge...

A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn.Authorities say some 30 passenge...

The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authen...

A lawyer for Michael Jackson's former personal physician says the doctor is returning to work at his Houston clinic.Attorney Edward Chernoff told The Associated Pres...

Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students to...

The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has pr...

The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" th...

While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more cop...

Gov. Don Carcieri's administration has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chill and put unemployed people to wo...

Authorities say a couple and a 14-year-old boy have been killed in a fiery freeway crash in Southern California that two younger children managed to survive.Los Ange...

In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle ha...

The administration of Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri (kuh-CHEHR'-ee) has failed for months to spend $20 million meant to insulate poor people's homes against the winter chi...

Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it.Abigail Mae Bresnik was born as her father cir...

Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there.Abo...

Investigators say a fire that destroyed businesses on the famous Atlantic City boardwalk apparently started in a pizza shop.No serious injuries were reported after t...

A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock.The U.S. Geological Survey says the first quake struc...

The U.S. government resettled Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, the Iraqi refugee moved to Michigan.It wasn't that Alsaqa disliked Worcester...

Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on the snowlike decaying matter that cascades down, and even sunken whale bone...

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants s...

A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy ...

Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school's policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets, a d...

A small amount of radiation has been detected in a reactor building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania. Officials say there is no public h...

Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman...

Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is a new dad again, after launching into space and taking a spacewalk, all for the first time.He announced the birth of his daughter, Abig...

An astronaut in space is finally a new dad.Atlantis crewman Randolph Bresnik announced the birth of his daughter Abigail on Sunday morning, after being notified priv...

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Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman...

Report: Rep Kennedy says RI bishop has told him not to take communion over pro-choice stance....

A low-pressure system that has lingered in the Gulf of Mexico the past few days, bringing rain to the Gulf Coast, was expected to finally move inland into the Southeast on ...

The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese national believed to be employed...

Kate Hudson, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Patrick Harris and other stars who are used to getting applause were giving it gladly at a ceremony honoring people who make a difference ...

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday....

The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gun...

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...

Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.Long Beach...

A gunman fatally wounded a passenger in another vehicle at an Oregon intersection Saturday, setting off a police chase that ended when the suspect crashed and was killed by...

The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying t...