Reaction of the presidential candidates to Sen. Edward Kennedy's hospitalization: "I have been in contact with his family. Obviously they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. Ted Kennedy is a giant in American...

Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president, something she never dreamed as a child that she would live to see. That event,...

Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party's presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa, where his solid win in January caucuses propelled him...

WASHINGTON _ Sen. Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of a Maryland superdelegate Saturday, inching closer to securing the Democratic presidential nomination. Greg Pecoraro, a city council member in Westminster,...

As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast. ...

The NAACP chose 35-year-old activist and former news executive Ben Jealous as its president Saturday, making him the youngest leader in the 99-year history of the nation's largest civil rights organization. The...

A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said. Shots rang out shortly before 11 a.m. outside St....

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was airlifted to a hospital Saturday after suffering a seizure at his home, and did not appear to have had a stroke as initially suspected, his spokeswoman said. The 76-year-old Democrat, the...

Six rail cars derailed in southern Louisiana Saturday, causing a hydrochloric acid leak from two of the cars that forced police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile radius of the accident. The two cars...

She wraps her arms around her son, gently raising the spindly 14-year-old boy off a couch to his feet. She hugs him and rubs his back, whispering "I love you" over and over. Steven Domalewski moves his head to kiss his...

As Huang Siyu ran down the stairs of her school after the powerful earthquake, the building collapsed and her teacher was killed. A chunk of falling debris crushed the fifth grader's left leg, and her schoolmates...

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday to discuss efforts to work out a cease-fire between the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip and Israel, officials said. The talks in...

The eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II married his Canadian fiancee Saturday in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle. Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly wed at the castle's 15th-century St. George's Chapel in front of...

Saw Htin's cheeks were wet with tears after waiting in line with hundreds of sick, desperate cyclone survivors. The 18-year-old mother clutched her wheezing baby boy. "He coughed and cried all night," she explained...

YANGON, Myanmar _ Myanmar's junta kept a French navy ship laden with aid waiting outside its maritime border on Saturday, and showed off neatly laid out state relief camps to diplomats. The stage-managed tour appeared...

American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. boosted its wage offer and increased the payments it will give workers to take a wage cut as part of a tentative agreement that could settle an 11-week strike by the United...

News that Saudi Arabia had boosted its oil output by 300,000 barrels a day was greeted as a non-event on oil markets _ the move wasn't anywhere near the kind of production increase needed to bring prices down on Friday....

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that financial markets are "considerably calmer" now than they were two months ago. He predicted the economy will be rebounding by the second half of this year. In a speech...

Human rights activists "ethically and morally" condemned 24 European corporations on Friday, accusing them of environmental contamination, labor exploitation and selling dangerous pesticides in Latin America. The...

Cathay Pacific Airways might cut routes to help cope with surging fuel prices, its chief executive said. Tony Tyler said in an internal company newsletter, seen Saturday by The Associated Press, that the airline must...

After wrapping up a successful concert tour, you'd think Reba McEntire would want to take some time off to relax. Instead, the tireless country star is preparing for her 10th turn as host of the Academy of Country Music...

Woody Allen's latest film touches on that classic male fantasy, a romantic threesome with two women. Has Allen ever entertained the notion himself? "You know, it's hard enough to get one person," Allen told reporters...

After wrapping up a successful concert tour, you'd think Reba McEntire would want to take some time off to relax. Instead, the tireless country star is preparing for her 10th turn as host of the Academy of Country Music...

Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. Aerial photos posted Friday at several celebrity Web sites, credited to the Insight News &...

!!-- pobj:ASIANYET163-0513081825 -->For an illness shared by so many, clinical depression should be better understood and more openly addressed. Even so, a social stigma and shame is still linked to this disorder on...

Melanie Roach has fulfilled her Olympic dream eight years after missing the Sydney Games with a back injury and less than two years after the surgery that ended the pain. The 33-year-old mother of three was the...

Maria Sharapova pulled out of the Italian Open semifinals because of a strained left calf Saturday, two days before she is to assume the No. 1 ranking following Justine Henin's retirement. Sharapova said the injury...

Rafael Nadal fought off a challenge from Novak Djokovic 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 Saturday to set up another final against defending champion Roger Federer at the Hamburg Masters. The top-ranked Federer overwhelmed Andreas Seppi...

The Detroit Red Wings sound as if the Western Conference finals have lasted long enough. They're ready to eliminate the Dallas Stars on Saturday in Game 5 and earn a spot in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time...

Ryan Briscoe, a front-row qualifier last week, crashed hard in the second turn but was uninjured during practice Friday for the Indianapolis 500. One of the fastest on the final full day of practice before the May 25...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--"The California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)--It's here. The second film in "The Chronicles of Narnia" series, "Prince Caspian" (PG) hits theaters this weekend. It's bigger, and some say better, than the first installment. But with the...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP)--Arkansas Baptist disaster relief teams have had their hands full lately, with massive flooding that damaged hundreds of homes, then multiple tornadoes on Feb. 5, April 3, May 2 and May 10 that...

BRYAN, Texas (BP)--A minister from Prestonwood Baptist Church has been arrested in a sting operation for soliciting sex with a minor.Joe Barron, 52, a minister to married adults at the Dallas-area church, was arrested...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Planned Parenthood Federation of America -- known far better for terminating motherhood than for promoting it -- nonetheless found a way to turn Mother's Day into an excuse for fundraising.The country's...

A hepatitis C outbreak was caused by workers improperly reusing syringes and medicine vials at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted by...

A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City's 1985 quake. Now, in China, rescuers are...

Health regulators warned again Friday that Roche and Novartis drugs prescribed to organ transplant patients can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women. The Food and Drug Administration last...

Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than patients getting enough of the nutrient, a study found _ adding to evidence the "sunshine vitamin"...

A combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to worsen in a study of 300 women with very advanced disease who had stopped responding to other treatments. It was the...

Unless you're looking carefully, you'll likely miss the fact that the new Asylum Web site for young men is a creation of Time Warner Inc.'s AOL. Same for WalletPop on personal finance, Spinner on indie music and...

A company rooted in bringing the Internet to the masses, AOL is shifting its focus toward serving niche audiences with the launch of dozens of specialty Web sites. The latest _ ParentDish for parents _ formally...

Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime. Federal prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of computer hacking law to indict...

Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with...

Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder questions over the...

Showers and thunderstorms were expected in Florida and parts of the Southeast Coast on Saturday. Showers were also expected in the coastal areas of New England, while scattered showers were predicted for the Great...

Wet weather was expected Friday from New England all the way south to the Gulf Coast. Severe thunderstorms were anticipated along the coastline of the Southeast, with damaging winds and a few weak tornadoes forecast in...

A storm was expected to move across the Mississippi Valley and along the Appalachian Mountains on Thursday, bringing rain and thunderstorms through the Southeast and lower half of the Mississippi Valley. There was a...

A line of storms stretched from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi Valley early Wednesday, while both coasts warmed up beneath clear skies. A large portion of the Southern Plains eastward into the Lower Mississippi...

An arc of stormy weather stretched from the upper Midwest to portions of the Four Corners early Tuesday, with thunderstorms possible in the South and rain for the Pacific Northwest. The storm system in the upper...