People who have lost a significant amount of weight and keep it off for years are constantly vigilant about what they consume, ...

Residents of the San Fernando Valley breathed air free of smoke and ash for the first time in four days Wednesday under brilliant ...

A jury has ended its first day of deliberations in the case of a New York City woman accused of allegedly standing by as her ...

Prosecutors have DNA tests and hair samples. They have testimony about "the smell of death" in the trunk of the suspect's car.

Vice President Dick Cheney was treated for an abnormal heartbeat "without complication" Wednesday during a short visit to a hospital ...

Schools, businesses and a large oil refinery closed Wednesday on several Caribbean islands in the path of Hurricane Omar, which ...

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the White House on Wednesday of withholding documents that showed the ...

Leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial countries say they will meet soon to map strategies to deal with the global financial ...

An tense border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia erupted into a gunbattle that killed two soldiers Wednesday, but officials ...

The foreign ministers of Syria and Lebanon signed a document Wednesday formalizing diplomatic ties between the two countries ...

The number of justifiable homicides committed by police and private citizens has been rising in the past two years to their highest ...

Nancy Reagan has been hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and sacrum after a fall at her Bel-Air home, her spokeswoman said ...

Black employees of the U.S. Marshals Service have filed a civil rights lawsuit saying they have been denied promotions because ...

A lawyer says Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens plans to testify at his corruption trial.

A drunk man claiming to have a bomb tried to hijack a Russian-bound Turkish Airlines plane on Wednesday but fellow passengers ...