(AP) — Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany will deliver the Republicans' speech in response to President Obama's health care speech this week. The Lafayette Republican's press office said Tuesday...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With results in from standardized tests given to Louisiana public school students this past spring and summer, the state education department said Tuesday that there was a 4 percent...

KABUL (AP) — Four U.S. troops died Tuesday in a militant attack in eastern Afghanistan, and NATO forces acknowledged for the first time that civilians were among the dozens killed in an airstrike...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza students won't learn about the Holocaust this year.Angry protests by Palestinians have disrupted tentative plans to introduce information about the Nazi genocide...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly. The problem is money. The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Folks who choose to sneak down country roads and dump their trash could be in for a rude awakening. If a hidden camera or the member of a stepped-up patrol, catches them in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Take responsibility for your education. Go to class and listen. Don't let failures define you. That's the advice President Barack Obama gave school children on Tuesda yin a speech...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters have contained 60 percent of the huge wildfire that has burned north of Los Angeles for 14 days. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Tom Debellis said Tuesday that the 251-square-mile...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California's huge wildfire turned nearly a quarter of the 1,000-square-mile Angeles National Forest into a moonscape of barren mountains looming above thousands of homes...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a speech that drew fire even before he delivered it, President Barack Obama is telling the nation's schoolchildren he "expects great things from each of you. At the end of the...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Heavy rains have flooded hundreds of homes in the Mexico City metropolitan area and turned streets into rivers that dragged cars in their currents. Officials say the downpour briefly...