President Barack Obama said Tuesday U.S. policy makers should be able to reach a bipartisan consensus on high-profile issues such as health care and energy,

Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a "Buzz," adding Twitter and Facebook style social networking features.

A Massachusetts woman has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter.

The convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider has little sympathy for the family of his victim, comparing them to the relatives of a hit man in a recording posted online.

First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday unveiled a nationwide campaign to combat childhood obesity, saying the epidemic is “a wake up call” for the country.

The rarely shuttered U.S. government closed down for a second day Tuesday, as the northeast braced for another massive snow blitz just days after a historic

Los Angeles' famous Hollywood sign will be covered up Thursday with a sign that reads "Save the Peak", after a conservation group successfully bought the land

The death of the father of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was ruled a homicide Tuesday when an autopsy showed he died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son in which

The man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday, then fled, and he is considered

State Farm Insurance Company warned U.S. safety regulators of problems with the accelerator system of Toyota Motor vehicles in 2007, according to Tuesday's

Police began excavating a landfill Tuesday in search of a body or other evidence in the disappearance of an 8-month-old Arizona boy who was last seen with his mother at a San

A 31-year-old Indiana man says he had no food but kept himself hydrated with Mountain Dew and snow while he was stuck in his snow-covered SUV in southwestern

President Obama held a meeting at the White House Tuesday with Democrat and Republican congressional leaders, saying that he wanted Congress to work together

Veteran congressman John Murtha (D-Penn) died from an infection after doctors accidentally cut into his intestine during routine surgery, Fox News confirmed on

A worker who was in a Connecticut power plant when it exploded on Sunday tells The Associated Press there was a smell of natural gas in the plant less than an hour before the