CHICAGO (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama plans to name New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his choice for commerce secretary on Wednesday, adding another former campaign rival to his Cabinet, Democratic...

(AP) — A walking tour of Charity Hospital in New Orleans on Tuesday appeared to violate Louisiana's open meetings law when several people were barred from the tour. Fourteen lawmakers joined LSU...

GAUHATI, India (AP) — A bomb exploded in a train coach in India's insurgency-hit northeast on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring another 29, a state government official said. The...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist. But the six...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — India demanded Monday that Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the deadly Mumbai attacks, and Washington pressured Islamabad to cooperate with the investigation....

WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush says history will judge him, but he is getting his own crack first. Bush is using his final 50 days in office to tout his legacy, hoping to leave a lasting...

CHICAGO (AP) — Barack Obama announced a national security team Monday headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been...

POZNAN, Poland (AP) — Negotiators kicked off the final yearlong push Monday for a new climate change treaty — but with the U.S. government in transition, the European Union in disarray and...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Protesters swarmed Thailand's main international airport Tuesday, forcing the cancellation of departing flights just hours after their comrades opened fire on government...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the state ended months of speculation Tuesday by announcing plans to build two new hospitals near downtown New Orleans in an effort...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just families that are getting together this Thanksgiving week. The three brightest objects in the night sky — Venus, Jupiter and a crescent moon — will crowd...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan governor says 10 Taliban militants involved in an acid attack this month against 15 girls and teachers have been arrested. Kandahar Gov. Rahmatullah Raufi says...