U.S.
Schwarzenegger urges new fees to boost firefighting
California firefighters need more equipment and staff to handle wildfires that are increasingly a year-round problem, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday.
Racial tensions brewing in Crown Heights
Seventeen years after race riots left the streets of one New York City neighborhood bloodied, tensions are rising again there between Orthodox Jews and blacks....
First MLK grandchild born
The first grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Sunday in Atlanta....
Midwest tornadoes kill 7, including toddler
Seven people died in tornadoes that blew through the Midwestern United States on Sunday, with six reported dead in Iowa and a toddler in Minnesota, authorities said Monday....
Weather helps firefighters get control of wildfire
Days of moist, cool weather helped firefighters get a handle on a destructive wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains that scorched 3,900 acres and at least 29 homes....
SUVs plunge toward 'endangered' list
Jorge Fernandez strolls across the used-car parking lot littered with dozens upon dozens of sport utility vehicles the size of small tugboats....
Nearly complete Pentagon memorial tells story of 9/11
As president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund, Jim Laychak has been involved in nearly aspect of the project's planning....
Obama: Florida, Michigan are Clinton's 'last slender hope'
Sen. Barack Obama accused Sen. Hillary Clinton of stoking anger in Florida and Michigan over the Democratic Party's decision not to recognize the states' primary votes....
Probe lands on Mars, NASA says
The first pictures from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, which successfully touched down near Mars' north pole Sunday, showed a pattern of brown polygons as far as the camera could see....