Hurricane Alex is slowing clean-up and oil-containment efforts at the site of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The US House of Representatives gave its final approval on Wednesday to the biggest overhaul of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression.
The Russian espionage drama intensfied on Wednesday as one of the suspects in the alleged "deep cover" spy ring skipped bail in Cyprus.
A relief well that might divert the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak is still weeks from completion, a top United States official said on Wednesday.
It might have been better for the environment to have done nothing about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico except to keep the oil out at sea.
Russia and the United States sought on Wednesday to cool a heated scandal sparked by the arrest of 11 suspected Kremlin spies.
Russia and the US face their most serious diplomatic crisis of the Obama era after the Kremlin denounced the arrest of 10 US-based Russian spies.
Rough weather whipped up by the season’s first Atlantic hurricane is disrupting clean-up of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A man accused of fatally beating his stepdaughter when she wouldn’t stop crying as he watched a World Cup game has been charged with capital murder.
The FBI has arrested 10 alleged Russian spies and broken up a "long-term, deep cover" network of agents across America’s east coast.
Political momentum was expected to carry a Wall Street reform Bill to approval, but the death of Senator Robert Byrd threatens to delay final action.
Joe Biden has done it again: made a gaffe in full view of the cable TV news cameras. But it’s nothing new for the vice-president.
Tropical depression Alex picked up speed over the Gulf of Mexico and regained tropical storm strength on Sunday as two key oil ports remained closed.
Tropical Storm Alex made landfall in Belize Saturday night, dumping showers on northern Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula.
Ghana, the last African team left in the World Cup, won a stirring 2-1 extra time victory over the US on Saturday to reach the quarterfinals.
Joseph Jackson files lawsuit against Conrad Murray, accusing the physician of giving the late pop star powerful drug and being slow to call for help.
United States lawmakers finalised an historic overhaul of financial regulations as dawn broke over Capitol Hill on Friday.
The oil spill piled pressure on Obama on Thursday as the hurricane season closed in and voters angry at his crisis management hammered the president.
The gusher in the Gulf of Mexico returned to full force on Thursday after BP was forced to remove a cap that had been containing some of the oil.
Barack Obama has sacked the US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, following disparaging comments made by McChrystal.
United States coach Bob Bradley, who has scowled his way through much of the World Cup, allowed himself a rare smile on Wednesday.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a catastrophe caused by human error that could have been avoided, the International Energy Agency has said.
Workers struggling in the heat to clean up oil from the the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico risk short-term lung, liver, and kidney damage.
US President Barack Obama will confront his top Afghanistan commander on Wednesday before deciding whether to fire him over inflammatory comments.
The US president gets tough over the oil spill crisis but still faces mounting criticism.
The White House stepped up its legal battle on Wednesday over a key part of its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
A United States team trying to clinch a berth in the last 16 of the World Cup by beating Algeria had last-minute concerns over its strikeforce.
Brands that use microblogging sites like Twitter to provide real-time responses to the public are winning a higher degree of trust from consumers.
Offering up lion burgers as a tribute to the World Cup in South Africa is getting a Phoenix valley restaurant into controversy.
A new study suggests a genetic link that could lead to early detection and better treatment.
Graeme McDowell was the last man standing at Pebble Beach on Sunday, hoisting a US Open trophy that was a testament to nerve and "knuckling down".
BP estimates that a worst-case scenario rate for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could be about 100 000 barrels of oil per day.