Doctor: Israel intentionally targeting civilians

Franken wins, but no seat yet; Friedman: state law prohibits it.

Ex-British PM Tony Blair, Australia's ex-leader John Howard to be 'awarded.'

If you don't get punished, you didn't go anything wrong, right?

Obama on his Gaza silence: 'one president at a time'

Philip Bennett, The Washington Post's managing editor, said today he is stepping down this week after four years as the paper's second-ranking news executive.

Prosecutors seek revocation of bail for disgraced fraudster.

A voter registration recruiter working for the group ACORN has been indicted on two felony counts of voter registration fraud.

Wealthy Republican plans run after Schwarzenegger term ends in 2010.

Video: cop shot helpless suspect in the back

RNC candidates: Worst GOP president? Not Bush

Israeli warplanes carried out intensive raids on Hamas targets on Monday as ground troops surrounded Gaza's main city, while Israel faced mounting diplomatic pressure for a ceasefire.

Franken's victory made official: 'I work for you now'

The new US Senate was set to convene Tuesday in a swirl of allegations of personal corruption, voter fraud and dynastic nepotism that threatens to dog the early days of Barack Obama's presidency.

Pat Hingle, the veteran actor with more than half a century of impressive work in theater, film and television who was perhaps best known to a generation of movie fans as Commissioner James Gordon in the first four "Batman" films, has died. He was 84...

As it turns out, there really may be a bug in your soup. The Food and Drug Administration has finalized a rule that will require food companies to list cochineal extract and carmine on the label when they are used in food and cosmetics. But the new rule contains one glaring omission. It doesn't require companies to tell you that the ingredients come from a bug...

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday, the day after Israeli ground forces pushed into Gaza, the Pentagon said Monday...

A group of activists, watermen and former officials filed a lawsuit this morning against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, trying to force an overhaul of the troubled government campaign to clean the Chesapeake Bay...

Will get just ten years of protection after Congress changed law in 1997.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama said on Monday he plans to hold a "neighborhood ball" as part of his inauguration celebration this month, offering cheap tickets to residents in the US capital and linking the party to others around the country...