Everything you need to get up to speed on the big story of the day May 25 is National Missing Children's Day. Etan Patz, its poster child, remains missing. After 33 years, a man has stepped forward to confess to strangling Patz. Proof will be another matter, as the former grocery store worker has not [...]
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker has apparently had enough of saying he's sorry this week. The rising Democratic star has been under fire since a Sunday appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press"during which he said Democratic attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital were "nauseating," Having endured days of excoriating criticism, and having tried [...]
Hurricane Bud strengthened into a major storm and was headed early Friday toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on the Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta.
The Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate in Egypt's first free presidential vote had won through to a run-off next month against ex-air force chief Ahmed Shafiq, deposed leader Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister.
On his first visit back to the Iowa state fairgrounds since the 2008 campaign, President Obama used a grassroots rally to launch sharp new attacks against rival Mitt Romney over the debt and deficit.
A wave of climbers has headed for the summit of Mount Everest, and several people have already made it in what is expected to another busy weekend on the top of the world.
It’s not just the media that won’t forget Mitt Romney saying in New Hampshire earlier this year that he likes “being able to fire people.” The candidate says the remark has stuck with him - and haunted him - ever since.
President Obama invited Americans to a Twitter press conference of sorts, taking seven questions on topics like how he aims to curb oil imports, boost job growth or help homeowners struggling with their mortgages.
Two raging wildfires in southwest New Mexico merged on Thursday to become the biggest blaze among fires that have torched forest and brush in parts of five Southwestern states.
Doug O'Neill, the trainer of Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another, was suspended 45 days after one of his horses had an excessive level of carbon dioxide, but the punishment won't start before the Belmont Stakes.