There's clinching a playoff berth, and there's doing it with the gutty style of a 9-0 game-ending run.

For the first time since Golda Meir more than three decades ago, a woman is within reach of becoming the prime minister of Israel, a nation...

As a Republican and mother of five, Gov. Sarah Palin's quest for the vice presidency challenges conservative vs. liberal beliefs about working moms.

It may go down as one of the quietest acceptance speeches in presidential campaign history: quiet crowd, quiet candidate, quiet rebukes...

ANCHORAGE — Alaskans have struck a $3,269 bonanza in their Permanent Fund dividend payments this year.

Perjury charges have been dismissed against a Seattle police detective who shot a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club during last month's annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.

A roadside bomb killed two American soldiers patrolling eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said, announcing the first combat...

A few weeks back, John McCain predicted Barack Obama would give the better acceptance speech. But he said it wouldn't matter. "I think it's going...

A Level 3 sex offender who tried to kidnap a woman in a Costco parking lot last year but was foiled by her screams has pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted kidnapping with sexual motivation and second-degree assault with a deadly

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — A Mexican prosecutor says an Oregon tourist drowned in his own blood while in police custody.

Dan Webb's public artwork "Gnome" is unveiled at Cornish College as part of a group show focusing on appropriation, "GIMME: From Inspiration to Appropriation."

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The man accused of killing six people during a shooting rampage Tuesday was charged this afternoon with six counts of first-degree murder and four counts of first-degree assault with a firearm or deadly weapon in Skagit County District Court.

NASA has adjusted the target launch dates for the two remaining space shuttle missions in 2008.

While TV might seem like an undeserved luxury, both prison officials and prisoners said TV provides a sense of normalcy.

President George W. Bush is expected to announce Tuesday that the number of U.S. troops in Iraq will be cut by up to 8,000 by mid-January.

The nation's unemployment rate rose to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August, the government reports.

Oprah's mom is accused of being a deadbeat by a high-end clothing store in Milwaukee.

A record 9.2 percent of homeowners were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June, an industry group says.

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters says the fund helping states pay for bridge and highway projects will run about $8.3 billion short.