Authorities are searching for four people who have not been accounted for as a wildfire tore through their neighborhoods this week near Boulder, ...

President Obama challenged the GOP on Wednesday to join him in expanding business tax breaks, repairing infrastructure, and cutting taxes.

A pilot program in five Chinese provinces will let some couples have an additional child.

What's a few thousand miles between two people in love? Easy travel, bad economy have made these increasingly common romances fodder for studies. ...

A 10-year survey of emergency room departments notes the change, which experts say could be for reasons from less smoking to better diagnost ...

Women who shaved their heads in the St. Baldrick's Foundation L.A. event did so to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer.

Scientists have found gene mutations that may cause an estimated 10% of ovarian cancers, a finding that could help them develop new treatments. ...

Pastor Terry Jones prepared to burn Qurans despite protests from the White House, fellow Christian evangelicals, veterans' groups and others ...

The group of Muslims planning to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque near ground zero appears plagued by divisions that raise questions ...

Pope Benedict XVI thanked the British on Wednesday for the "vast amount of work" they have put into his upcoming visit and said he hoped their ...

Universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they'll be used.

Arizona's education chief says the federal government has launched an investigation into whether the state discriminates against teachers who ...

Some professors believe Wikipedia has no place in the footnotes of a college paper. But could it have a place on the syllabus?

Describing the creator as "not necessary" in his latest book is just another day at the office for that whimsical scamp Stephen Hawking, better ...

Iraqi officials displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old ...