Mitt Romney's rivals are hoping to seize on back-to-back debates this weekend to knock the front-runner off stride and gain momentum heading into Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.

The new owners of the security company formerly known as Blackwater are settling a lawsuit brought by some of the survivors and estates of Iraqis killed during an infamous 2007 shooting in Baghdad.

Michelle Obama was privately fuming, not only at the president’s team, but also at her husband.

President Barack Obama's claim that his economic policies are helping put Americans back to work got a shot in the arm Friday when government data showed the nation's jobless rate dropped to the lowest level in three years.

The federal judge set to preside over the upcoming trial of John Edwards met behind closed doors Friday with a federal prosecutor and a lawyer for the two-time Democratic presidential candidate.

The Obama administration plans a rule change that would help reduce the time some illegal immigrants are separated from their citizen relatives while the immigrants try to win legal status in the United States.

Joran Van Der Sloot will go on trial today in Lima for the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman.

A panel of experts has recommended the government lower its threshold for lead levels in children.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday he is willing to go before the NAACP and urge blacks to demand paychecks, not food stamps.

One police officer is dead and five others are hospitalized after a shootout with a suspect in northern Utah.

Romney is the odds-on favorite to win the New Hampshire primary, though, and it is unclear how much campaign cash any of his rivals has available to try to slow or even stop his momentum.

Michele Bachmann has ended her presidential campaign.

A coalition of groups supporting a proposed ballot initiative asking Californians to boost taxes on the rich is targeting one of the state's most famous millionaires, reality TV star Kim Kardashian.

With almost all of the votes counted, it's still not clear who will win the Iowa caucuses as GOP officials say it's a near perfect two-way tie between Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney has been declared the winner of the Iowa Caucus, edging out Rick Santorum by just eight votes.

If saving money is one of your new year's resolultions, you might want to start with a look at your cable bill.

It's decision day in Iowa. The caucuses are finally here, the first official test for the contenders in the republican presidential nomination process.

Manufacturers are beginning to phase out incandescent bulbs, and retailers say when their supplies run out they won't get any more.

The six presidential hopefuls hustled through 23 fast-paced campaign events combined in Iowa the day before Tuesday's caucuses.

A plane searching the remote wilderness for Benjamin Barnes, 24, on Monday discovered his body lying partially submerged in an icy, snowy mountain creek.

Authorities have arrested a man in connection with dozens of suspected arson fires that have rattled Los Angeles residents since last week.

In addition to the traditional bands and rose-covered floats, "Occupy" protesters are planning to be part of the festivities this year.

Surging into top-tier contention, Republican Rick Santorum came under sharp criticism from rivals hoping to slow his momentum two days before Iowa's kickoff caucuses.

NASA is counting down the seconds until its twin spacecraft bound for the moon make back-to-back arrivals over the New Year's weekend.

The New Year's Eve parties started a whole day early on the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, after a hop across the international date line transported the country 24 hours into the future - making it the first in the world to ring in the new year.