WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama says the economy is going to get worse before it gets better. There are about six weeks before his inauguration and Obama says his top priority is to...

BEIJING (AP) — Japan's top nuclear envoy joined other negotiators Sunday in downplaying expectations for a new round of talks on North Korea's disarmament, saying it would be tough to work out a...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a year when national Republican fortunes took a turn for the worse, Louisiana delivered the GOP two seats in Congress in elections delayed by Hurricane Gustav. Indicted Democratic...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the situation in Afghanistan will get more difficult before it gets easier — "just like the surge in Iraq was" — as the U.S....

BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombers killed 17 people — including two American soldiers — and wounded more than 100 in a string of blasts in two Iraqi cities Thursday as a timetable for withdrawing...

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to propose a new law that would let Louisiana confine sex offenders beyond their prison sentences, by involuntarily placing them in mental health facilities for treatment....

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A woman is suing a Pennsylvania sports bar and restaurant, saying she got stuck inside a toilet bowl for 20 minutes after the seat broke. Kathleen Hewko of Delran Township,...

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — The latest magical tome by J.K. Rowling has started to fly off bookstore shelves. Rowling launched "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" on Thursday with a tea party for 200 school...

(AP) — Louisiana is the nation's least healthy state, according to a new national ranking of states' overall health. Louisiana had ranked 49th last year, but fell behind Mississippi in the report...

NEW YORK (AP) — What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound...

ROME (AP) — The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, U.N. officials and environmental...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Wednesday to refocus India and Pakistan on a common fight against terrorism and away from their mutual suspicions of one another, but neither...