NATO says three troops were killed by a bomb Monday, but the statement did not provide details about the nationality of the service members killed.

The Senate plans to vote Tuesday on whether to start debate on a Democratic plan to keep some college loan interest rates from doubling on July 1.

The White House says the Obama administration does not and will not negotiate with al-Qaida even though it is concerned about the safety and well-being of a 70-year-old American aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan nine months ago.

Maine Republicans have handed Texas Congressman Ron Paul a late state victory.

The family of an Army officer serving in Afghanistan said Sunday his wife saw a bullet hole in the closet behind him after he collapsed during a Skype video chat.

George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

Two Americans detained and accused of spying after hiking near the Iraq-Iran border three years ago will marry Saturday in the San Francisco Bay area.

Two unidentified bodies have been found at a Mississippi residence associated with a man suspected of abducting a Tennessee woman and her three young daughters, who are believed to be in "extreme danger," authorities said Saturday.

Spring usually means a thaw, but that's not the case for the U.S. job market.

A major cyber attack is currently under way aimed squarely at computer networks belonging to US natural gas pipeline companies, according to alerts issued to the industry by the US Department of Homeland Security.

In back-to-back speeches in two key swing states, the Obama campaign indicated how it wants to define the general election.

A key House chairman says one of the Secret Service agents accused of wrongdoing in the Colombia prostitution scandal failed a lie detector test.

The Obama administration said Friday it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.

Prolonged periods of sitting may increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes in women, a new study finds.

Mitt Romney’s campaign was weathering a minor controversy by week’s end related to the resignation of a foreign policy aide who was gay, forcing the campaign to deny it had caved to fringe social conservatives who’d pressured Romney to fire the aide.

No president running for re-election in rocky economic times can escape the monthly jobs report, and Friday's numbers brought disappointing news.

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons says Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper who co-founded the seminal hip-hop group, has died at age 47.

Nick Gentry will be able to celebrate two major accomplishments this month: He’s graduating from high school and, after a very long job search, he has landed his first job.

Jennifer Ramirez remembers it so vividly: the excitement, at 15, of having her first boyfriend. Then the fear, when she found out she was pregnant.

Many unhappily married couples turn to marriage counselors to help them improve their relationship. Now a new type of couples therapy helps them figure out whether the best solution is to call it quits.

Has your boss been asking you to do more and more work because she just doesn't want to hire enough people? Help may be on the way.

Tossing out President Barack Obama's health care law would have major unintended consequences for Medicare's payment systems.

This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run for office.

New research questions the practice of restricting pacifiers for breastfeeding babies.

One step closer to a cure for AIDS – that is the implication of results out Wednesday from from several leading research centers