Even occasional smoking or secondhand smoke causes immediate damage to one\'s organs and poses risk of serious illness or death, the U.S. Surgeon General said in a new report released Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats have delayed a showdown vote on legislation carving out a path to legal status for foreign-born youngsters brought to this country illegally. Facing GOP..
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats have delayed a showdown vote on legislation carving out a path to legal status for foreign-born youngsters brought to this country illegally. Facing GOP..
A day before the Nobel committee honors an imprisoned Chinese dissident with its peace prize, China ratched up the rhetoric calling the award \"an interference\" in its internal affairs.
Zeng Jinyan knows all too well what it was like to be a prisoner in her own home.
Australia\'s foreign minister put the blame for WikiLeaks\' release of tens of thousands of pages of U.S. diplomatic cables and military information squarely on the United States on Wednesday.
Heavy rains and flooding has prompted the closing of the Panama Canal for only the third time in its storied 96-year history.
The first commercial space craft built to orbit Earth and re-enter the atmosphere has lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Fires burned in several spots in Haiti\'s capital Wednesday morning, where angry demonstrators were voicing their dismay at the announcement the night before that Jude Celestin, a prot?g? of current President Rene Preval, had won enough votes to enter a runoff in January.
WikiLeaks editor and founder Julian Assange voluntarily turned himself in Tuesday to authorities in London, after an arrest warrant was issued for him in Sweden on charges of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.
New video from a production house associated with the Taliban includes scenes of a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan nearly 18 months ago, a family spokesman confirmed Tuesday night.
About 100 people remained missing underneath a landslide in a suburb of Medellin, Colombia, a Red Cross official told CNN Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says economists predict higher job growth in 2011 and 2012 if Congress passes a tax deal he negotiated with Republicans. He's urging ..
NEW YORK (AP) - McDonald's says a key sales figure rose 4.8 percent in November, helped in the U.S. by the popularity of the limited-time McRib sandwich. The world's largest burger..
NEW YORK (AP) - The website for MasterCard suffered severe technical problems Wednesday, possibly the result of attacks by hackers supporting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Cred..
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Netflix will stream hundreds of episodes of popular ABC and Disney television shows online. That's the result of the company's latest deal to ramp up s..
DALLAS (AP) - Airline executives are mostly optimistic that higher fares will continue to boost airline revenue, but JetBlue Airways warns that ticket sales for the holiday s..
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A major U.S. air carrier has canceled all flights in and out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti due to the unsettled political atmosphere and recent violence in the l..
Protests erupted around the Haitian capital Tuesday night after an election council announced a runoff between a former first lady and a candidate allied with an increasingly unpopular government.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A new video released by the Taliban shows Spc. Bowe Bergdahl, the only known U.S. serviceman held captive in Afghanistan, with bags under his eyes and wha..
