Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was hospitalized in Boston on Saturday after suffering a seizure, a spokeswoman said.
Six rail cars derailed in southern Louisiana Saturday, causing a hydrochloric acid leak from one of the cars that forced police to evacuate thousands of residents.
After four decades carrying millions of New Yorkers, 44 of the city's subway cars are now home to millions of fish.
Los Angeles police say a man with a rifle has wounded two people at a festival outside a Southern California church.
Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless Somali coast, the head of a seafarer's association said.
Thousands of earthquake victims were seen Saturday fleeing a Chinese village near the epicenter of the past week's powerful earthquake due to worries of flooding.
Iraqi forces have detained more than 1,000 suspects in an offensive aimed at crushing al Qaida in northern Iraq, the military commander of the operation said on Saturday.
A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a Calif. county fair Friday night, injuring all 24 people aboard.
A French navy ship carrying 1,000 tons of food idled near Myanmar’s coast Saturday, awaiting permission from the uncooperative ruling military regime to dock in the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta.
The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator.
President Bush is pivoting to the Arab side of the Middle East peace dispute, and he may well get a less glowing reception than he did in Israel earlier this week.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, met with the Iraqi prime minister Saturday during a surprise visit to Baghdad.
About 3,600 workers at American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. will find out soon whether a new contract was worth 80 days without a company paycheck.
There is scant optimism that the changes in leadership in Moscow and Washington will shift the downward momentum in relations between the two nuclear powers.
The brother of Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan said Saturday the envoy had been released — three months after he was kidnapped near the border between the two countries.
A military judge has postponed the first war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, saying he wants to wait until the Supreme Court makes its ruling on the right of detainees to challenge their confinement in civil courts.
After nearly blowing a big lead, L.A. advances to Western Conference finals.
With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy running out of time — and perhaps air — the campaign has taken on a distinctly subdued mood.
Eight is an auspicious number in Chinese tradition, and 2008 was supposed to be a joyful year, a time for celebrating at the Beijing Olympics and basking in international recognition of the country's tremendous progress under the careful leadership of the Communist Party. It has not turned out that way.
Top-seeded Boston pushed to limit again, with another final game at home.
Robert Mondavi, who helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the world's best, died in the valley Friday at 94.
The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word.
A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said.
At a time when attention should be fixed on Big Brown, an exciting colt with a legitimate shot to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner, racing industry leaders are instead issuing press releases touting the industry’s commitment to the safety of its performers and responding to a barrage of criticism and difficult questions from the media, lawmakers, fans and even some industry insiders.
Barack Obama has called President Bush's comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world."
This is what the soaring cost of food looks like at street level: Poor people whose food stamps don't buy as much as they once did rushing into a store in the dead of night on the first day of the month.
