BOSTON — Boston Mayor Tom Menino says the city is willing to offer a $200,000 loan to prevent the city's financially struggling African-American weekly newspaper from shutting down permanently.
WASHINGTON — The father at the center of an international custody battle is lobbying Congress to pass legislation mandating the United States more aggressively help U.S. parents resolve such cases.
WASHINGTON— NASA still can't find its original moon landing videotapes. But that first moonwalk never looked better, thanks to new digitally refurbished copies unveiled Thursday.
WASHINGTON— The number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes soared by nearly 15 percent in the first half of the year as more people lost their jobs and were unable to pay their monthly mortgage bills.
SEATTLE— The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing $6.5 million in grants to help public libraries in 11 states improve the quality of the free computer access they offer.
WASHINGTON— Republicans cleared the way Thursday for a Senate vote next month to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, placing her firmly in line to become the first Hispanic justice.
WASHINGTON— House Democrats on Thursday pushed ahead with legislation that would deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to remake the health care system and cover some 50 million uninsured, despite concerns from their own party's moderate and c
JACKSON, Miss. - South Dakota eliminated grants for mosquito spraying. Illinois stopped paying for funerals for the poor. Kansas reduced mowing along highways and turned off air conditioning in government buildings earlier than usual.
PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania judge has approved a settlement in a nearly 40-year-old desegregation lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia.
