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"...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The head of the cancer center at LSU Health Sciences Center — New Orleans is named a scientific adviser to the National Cancer Institute.LSU says Dr. August Ochoa will serve...

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian university expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students when she wore a short dress to class, taking out newspaper ads Sunday to accuse her of immorality.

(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...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On a visit to the Energy Department on Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama quizzed middle-school students about red blood cells and nanotechnology during a practice science quiz...

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...