ROME (AP) — Even before all the debris from Italy's latest devastating earthquake is cleaned up, investigators fear that organized crime is poised to profit from contracts worth billions of dollars...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details of an FBI computer database that allows agents and analysts...

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations opens its first global racism conference in eight years today with the U.S. and at least six other countries boycotting the event out of concern that Islamic countries...

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — The "boy in the window" — who fell bloodied and paralyzed into the arms of rescuers during the horrifying Columbine High shooting rampage — is doing just fine....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States pressed Somalia on Thursday to root out the pirates menacing the seas off the Horn of Africa, and its prime minister said he could go after them if other nations...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Confronting a Mexican drug war that is "sowing chaos in our communities," President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will not seek renewal of a U.S. assault weapons ban but instead...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, filing their tax forms right on time, made $2.7 million last year and paid just under one-third of their adjusted income in federal...

ISFAHAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian scientists have cloned a goat and plan future experiments they hope will lead to a treatment for stroke patients, the leader of the research said Wednesday. The female...

(AP) — LSU's public hospital in New Orleans is on the chopping block, to cope with budget cuts proposed by Gov. Bobby Jindal for next year. The New Orleans hospital would bear the brunt of the reduction...

BOGOTA (AP) — Colombia's most wanted drug lord was cowering like a dog under a palm tree when he was captured Wednesday in a jungle raid involving hundreds of police officers, the defense minister...