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Los Angeles - Electricity was restored on Friday to all of the more than one million people who lost power after a massive shutdown that left homes in the …

As the Texas Forest Service battles what may be the state's most destructive wildfire outbreak ever, state lawmakers are facing criticism that they have has taken a penny-wise-pound-foolish approach …

Tripoli, Libya - As Interpol issued arrest warrants for the former Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and two others on Friday, reports came from Niger of a new convoy …

Cairo - Testimony on Thursday in the criminal case against former President Hosni Mubarak implicated top officials for the first time in ordering the use of force against demonstrators. …

Last month, a popular reform to grant the California Insurance Commission the power to review and regulate proposed insurance rate hikes died a quick death in the state Senate. …

A medical privacy breach led to the public posting on a commercial Web site of data for 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., including …

Washington - With the nation verging on renewed recession, President Barack Obama urged a divided Congress Thursday night to back his new $447 billion jobs package, which he promised …

The confrontation between West Coast longshore workers and an anti-union exporter exploded as pickets massed on railroad tracks by the hundreds yesterday to block grain shipments. Police …

The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses after two highjacked planes crashed into the twin towers of the center, in New York on September 11, 2001. (Photo: …

Even as the last of the 1,252 people arrested in front of the White House in opposition to the tar sands pipeline were being handcuffed and processed, another group …