CINCINNATI (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Monday that modern benefits like paid leave, minimum wage and Social Security "all bear the union label," as he appealed to organized labor to help...
BOSTON (AP) — Former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, announced Monday he would not run for the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly 50 years by his late uncle, Edward...
ROME (AP) — Italian authorities plan to expand Venice's port into a bustling shipping hub, further endangering the fragile lagoon and contributing to the sinking of the treasured city built on water,...
(AP) — The price tag to run an environmental lab for soil and water analysis tops $5 million a year. The state's environmental quality secretary estimates a private company could do the work for...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials at Delgado Community College in New Orleans say 1,500 would-be students were turned away for the fall semester because of lingering damage from Hurricane Katrina. Needed...
NEW YORK (AP) The five skyscrapers were all supposed to rise by early next decade to replace the ravaged World Trade Center, with the city's tallest towers set in a spiral evoking the Statue...
CAIRO (AP) — The outgoing U.N. peacekeeping chief in Sudan's Darfur region said the world should no longer consider the long-running conflict a war after a sharp decline in violence and deaths during...
(AP) — A sandwich company hit by federal allegations of unsanitary plant conditions has closed, putting about 100 people out of work. Southern Belle Sandwich Co. also has sold its customer contracts...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending a costly plan to revitalize the economy, Vice President Biden said Thursday the government's sweeping stimulus effort "is in fact working" despite steady Republican criticism...
(AP) — Paul McCrory won't go deer hunting until November, but Louisiana's new "sales tax holiday" on hunting equipment makes this weekend his best opportunity to shop for bullets and a new rifle....
LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — The once-dangerous and powerful Hurricane Jimena mellowed into a soggy, drifting tropical storm Thursday, bringing much needed rain to Mexico's drought-stricken Baja California...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as liberals urge President Obama to demand bold, far-reaching changes to the nation's health care system, the White House signaled openness Thursday to compromises that might...
