BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi militant accused of killing three American soldiers in a grisly checkpoint ambush was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to death by hanging. Two other men accused in the 2006...

BELLS, Tenn. (AP) — Two white supremacists charged with plotting to behead blacks across the country and assassinate Barack Obama while wearing white top hats and tuxes were likely too disorganized...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Furious mobs stoned U.N. peacekeepers' compounds Monday. Thousands of desperate people fled advancing rebel troops as chaos returned to eastern Congo. The chaos was fueled by festering...

KABUL (AP) — Insurgents shot down a U.S. helicopter after exchanging fire with its crew in central Afghanistan on Monday, while a suicide bomber in the north killed two U.S. soldiers inside a police...

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) _ Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a cheering crowd Monday that Democrats would raise taxes and "punish hard work" if Virginia voters break a 44-year preference...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni abandoned efforts to form a government Sunday, putting Israel on course for new elections and endangering already fragile Middle East peace talks....

KIBUMBA, Congo (AP) — Rebels seized an east Congo army base and the headquarters of a refuge housing some of the world's last mountain gorillas, in heavy fighting Sunday that sent thousands of civilians...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Scrambling to win the West, Democrat Barack Obama mocked John McCain on Saturday for aggressively trying to distance himself from President Bush. McCain touted his Western ties...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Blacks are already surging to the polls in parts of the South, according to initial figures from states that encourage early voting — a striking though still preliminary...

LAFAYETTE (AP) — The remains found submerged in a car pulled last week from the Vermilion River have been linked to a man reported missing in 1983. The 1984 registration tag on the gray, Cadillac...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican Senate passed a controversial energy reform on Thursday meant to revitalize the nation's flagging oil industry — the third largest supplier to the United States....

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's labor minister escaped assassination Thursday when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden SUV into his convoy, killing at least nine people in one of the safest areas of...