Employers went on a hiring spree in January and drove down the unemployment rate for a fifth straight month to 8.3 percent, its lowest point in nearly three years.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is wasting no time in acting on Senate-passed legislation to explicitly bar members of Congress and thousands in the executive branch from insider stock trading.

A 9-year-old Maine girl is home after undergoing a transplant of six organs to remove a tumor that was spreading throughout her abdomen.

Prosecutors in Pennsylvania say they will give Jerry Sandusky the names of the ten young men accusing him of sexual abuse.

Heather Peters, who won nearly $10,000 in a ruling from a court commissioner, said Thursday she expects other Honda owners to follow her lead. Many plan to opt out of a class action settlement to pursue their own suits.

Take a look at this! 6 more weeks of winter, unexplainable lights in the sky, and a winter wonderland.

North Carolina Democrat Heath Shuler recently announced he won't run for N.C. Governor, and now he says he won't seek re-election to the House.

NATO defense ministers will discuss on Thursday possible changes to the alliance's strategy in Afghanistan after the U.S. and France called for speeding up the handover of combat roles to local Afghan forces.

According to McClatchy newspapers, one of the marines in the video where troops appear to be urinating on Taliban corpses in Afhganistan was the unit's leader.

Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday as the Internet social network went public eight years after CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.

A U.S. counterterrorism official says the government's list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to and within the U.S. has doubled in the past year.

Pennsylvania's famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil has emerged from his lair and saw his shadow, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter.

A judge says documents confirm that civil rights-era photographer Ernest Withers secretly served as an informer for the FBI.

Big question for folks filling out their tax forms, can parents claim their adult children, who've moved back home, on their income taxes?

A federal pay freeze proposal is scheduled for a vote in the House of Representatives Wednesday.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is scheduled to go before Britain's supreme court Wednesday to appeal a lower court's decision to extradite him to Sweden.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is telling the Security Council that action to end the violence in Syria would be different from U.N. efforts to pacify Libya.

Take a look at this! Skiing for a record, the longest married couple, and a woman marries a building.

Romney, talking unity like a nominee, said he was ready "to lead this party and our nation" -- and defeat Democratic President Barack Obama.

If you filed your tax return early this year, you'll have to wait a week longer for your refund.

The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck on the coast of central Peru early Monday morning.

Federal prosecutors say data from at least 50 million users of the online storage site Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday.

An official says some of the blood found in a Maine home where a missing toddler was last seen six weeks ago belonged to the little girl.

The Florida Highway Patrol says 10 people have died in a series of early-morning crashes on a dark highway that was shrouded in haze and smoke.

Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich wants a commission to study the management of in vitro fertilization clinics, where infertile couples seek treatment to allow pregnancy and large numbers of leftover embryos are discarded or stored.