SANTA CLARA, California — Police say six people are dead — four of them children — after a shooting at a home in an upscale neighborhood of the Northern California city of Santa Clara.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hearing from the chief executives of some of the country's biggest banks as he caps a week in which he rounded out his overall plan for stabilizing the financial system.
SAN FRANCISCO — The ease with which a convicted felon obtained the assault weapon he allegedly used to murder Oakland police officers points to the challenges of keeping serious firepower off the city's murder-plagued streets, authorities say.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama kicked off a first-of-its-kind Internet-era town hall at the White House on Thursday, pushing hard for public support of his $3.6 trillion budget and asking people to be patient with work his administration is doi
WASHINGTON — For a 10th straight week, the number of people who are continuing to claim jobless benefits increased, fresh evidence that the labor market remains weak despite other hopeful signs that the recession may be nearing a bottom.
RALEIGH, N.C. — In his early days as a young academic, researching his pioneering book on the Black experience in the U.S. and setting the foundation for a life's work chronicling African-American history, John Hope Franklin had to leave Duke Univer
WASHINGTON–Black homeowners who were unfairly targeted for the subprime mortgages that helped topple the American economy now face the threat of similar predatory practices, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recentl
LAS VEGAS–AARP has long been seen as the domain of the aged. But its new CEO says the group’s central issue of health care reform makes it an advocate for every age group.
WILLOW, Alaska — Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than nine miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years.
