A day before the presidential election, Barack Obama announced the death Monday of his grandmother, who helped raise him and whom he praised as the cornerstone of his family.
The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretc …
PBS journalist Gwen Ifill dismisses conservative questions about her impartiality because she is writing a book that includes material on Barack Obama.
Bill Maher is preaching to the choir with "Religulous," a documentary that dissects organized religion, but he's doing it in his laceratingly funny, typically sardonic way.
World financial markets reeled and stunned lawmakers groped for their next move Monday after the House failed to approve a $700 billion bailout of the financial services industry.
It's the fasting month of Ramadan, and fear of God keeps taxi driver Abdel Karim Romaneh from reaching for a pack of cigarettes, despite his pounding head and frazzled nerves.
Prosecutors reviewing the death of a New York City woman who died in police custody at a Phoenix airport last year said Thursday that they have cleared the officers involved of any criminal wrongdoing.
For years, they were the picture of solidarity: the four children of Martin Luther King Jr. carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon.
Her voice never faltered as she described an attack so demonic that at one point, she begged to die.
A police officer who was shot in the head during a crosstown chase and shooting spree died Monday, authorities said.
The shuttle Discovery performed a slow backflip and then docked at the international space station Monday, delivering a mammoth lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear.
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