As the busiest night for kids descended on some Asian households Friday, many parents were spooked by a real threat lurking inside candy, especially those made in China — the industrial chemical melamine.

Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who speaks often about prayer and faith, is gambling her re-election bid by raising religion in the campaign's final days.

The government should ban the diabetes drug Avandia because of a wide variety of life-threatening risks, including heart and liver damage, a consumer group said Thursday.

Looking for Election Night drama? Don't stop at the historic presidential contest at the top of the ticket. A dozen Senate races could reshape politics on Capitol Hill.

The nation's obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government said Thursday.

The scale of the financial crisis is still unclear, but Russia must withstand such aggressive situation, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin stated. As a REGNUM correspondent reports, speaking at the Russian State Duma, Kudrin noted that none of financial experts

Georgian security services were involved in the blast of a bridge in South Ossetia, Deputy Minister for Defense and Emergency Situations of South Ossetia Ibrahim Gasseev stated. As a REGNUM correspondent reports, the bridge was located in the Ossetian village

In 2008, the inflation growth rate will be 13% instead of 6-7% planned before, said Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergey Ignatyev. As a REGNUM correspondent reports, Ignatyev also said, while speaking at the Russian State

Women running for top offices need to appear competent and attractive, according to a new study. For male candidates, seeming competent may be enough.

My friends, it's John McCain, live from New York, just three days before the election. Aides to the Republican presidential candidate said Friday thatMcCain will make a detour from battleground states to appear on"Saturday Night Live," the late-night show that

Gov. Rod Blagojevich shot back against recent polls have that have shown abysmal approval ratings, saying he's happy to get his "ass kicked" as a champion of the people.

Former Niles Mayor Nicholas Blase, 80, changed his plea today from innocent to guilty to federal corruption charges.

Gen. David Petraeus took the helm at Central Command on Friday, assuming responsibility for U.S. military operations not only in Iraq - where he is widely credited with leading a historic turnaround - but also in Afghanistan, where American fortunes

Consumer spending dropped in September by the largest amount in four years, while incomes suffered because of Hurricane Ike.

Three unidentified migrants are dead and 21 others had to be rescued after a boatload of migrants from the Dominican Republic ran aground off Miami Beach Friday morning. A large group of migrants from the boat jumped into the water

In a bold move brimming with confidence, Democrat Barack Obama broadened his advertising campaign on Friday into two once reliably Republican states and further bedeviled rival John McCain by placing a commercial in the Republican presidential nominee's home state of

Voter turnout will be the highest in decades, dwarfing recent presidential elections, experts predict. The only question dividing experts is how huge will it be. Will it be the largest since 1968, largest since 1960 or even, as one expert

Secret Service agents, Chicago police and other authorities all converged on Hyde Park Friday. But U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's home was not the target. It was Shoesmith Elementary School, where Obama will vote, CBS 2 Dorothy Tucker reports.

Police are searching for a gunman after a bank robbery and shooting in Mesquite, Texas Friday morning. A Mesquite Fire Department spokesman says an ambulance took two people to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police say a gunman held 11 fifth-graders hostage at an elementary school in Maine but was tackled by a state trooper and taken into custody without any harm to the children.