NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Association of Free Clinics says about 400 doctors and other medical providers will be at New Orleans' convention center on Nov. 14 to treat uninsured Louisiana residents.The...

NEW YORK (AP)   The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into Navy service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength."No matter how many times...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported, but had turned...

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP)   With the words "Let‘s roll"   the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt   U.S. Interior Secretary...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's interior minister says the death toll is now 91 from floods and landslides touched off by three days of heavy rains.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as "all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable"...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may...

(AP) — The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is getting about $6 million over the next two years to study whether a specific exercise program can stave off disability in older people.The LSU...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Hurricane Ida ripped into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical storm.Ida...

SEBASTOPOL, Calif. (AP) — The surge in medical marijuana in California has left many communities scrambling to regulate the free-for-all, while others are trying to ban the drug altogether. The issue...

(AP) — The state is about to replace its high school exit exam.Under existing rules, high school students have to pass the Graduation Exit Exam and meet other course requirements to earn a high school...

BEIJING (AP) — Thousands of people will send letters to President Barack Obama this year. Few besides Yang Zili are likely to risk jail by doing so.A Chinese dissident recently freed after eight...