Hurricane Earl swelled yesterday into a massive storm almost the size of New England, swirling north up the Eastern Seaboard on a track expected to take it perilously close to Nantucket around midnight.

Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Carl Larry, president of Oil Outlooks and Opinions LLC, talks with Bloomberg's Melissa Long about an explosion on a Mariner Energy Inc. platform in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

PHOENIX - The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County for not cooperating with an investigation into whether his department was systematically violating the rights of Hispanics.

PHOENIX - It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory. Gov. Jan Brewer stumbled and stammered through her opening statement during a televised debate Wednesday night, suffering through an embarrassing, ...

President Obama's chair of the Council of Economic Advisers is set to return to teaching at UC Berkeley in the fall after what, by all accounts, was an exhausting 22 months grappling with the worst economic falling off since the Great Depression, ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The college vote is up for grabs this year - to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama.

By AP The Democratic Governors Association filed an elections complaint on Thursday in Ohio alleging that the Fox News illegally helped the Republican nominee for governor solicit funds.

Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that he did not force his embattled corrections chief to resign over a botched prisoner early release program and defended Michael Randle's job performance during his short time in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - During her 18 years in the Senate, Barbara Boxer has earned a reputation for being unafraid to confront colleagues, conservatives or even the United States Army Corps of Engineers, as she did last year when she chided ...

Parents of children slain in Chicago voiced anger over a news conference called Thursday by self-proclaimed former and current West Side gang members to complain they're being treated unfairly by police.

Veterans and their families marked the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War on board the ship where Japan formally surrendered in 1945.

The police are investigating the death of a sickly 4-year-old girl in Brooklyn whose body was found after her mother called 911 on Thursday morning and reported the child was unresponsive.

At campaign stops in Oakland and City of Commerce, the Democrat says he wants to bridge Sacramento's partisan divide, deplores rival Whitman's 'negativity' and announces he will launch ads next week.

Through a federal grant, California will join 43 other states in replacing oft-maligned standardized exams. “This is going to change the way children are taught,” US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said about the new nationwide tests.

AP PHOENIX -- A man who worked at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was arrested Thursday on suspicion that he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of items from the luggage of passengers in a case that could include ...

Former Senator Simpson, co-chair of President Obama's Fiscal Responsibility Commission, calls our Huffington Post blog opposing Social Security benefit cuts and raising retirement age "a remarkable spew of drivel" and "an "extraordinary screed.

You know Democrats are in danger of losing control of Congress when Russell Feingold is fighting for survival. Wisconsin voters have chosen Democrats in the last six Presidential contests, including Barack Obama by 14 percentage ...

David Mejias, a candidate for state Senate and a former member of the Nassau County Legislature, was charged with menacing and stalking Thursday after he allegedly chased down an ex-girlfriend he saw driving with a male friend on ...