A sweeping health care overhaul narrowly clears its first hurdle in the Senate, with Democrats casting 60 party-line votes to open debate.

After decades of mistrust and sometimes betrayal, Mexican and U.S. authorities are increasingly setting aside their differences to unite against a common enemy.

A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car in midtown Manhattan, police said.

A gunman fatally wounded a passenger in another vehicle at an Oregon intersection, setting off a police chase that ended when the suspect crashed and was killed by officers, authorities said.

A military magistrate rules that the Army psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base will be held until trial.

The gleaming glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 is auctioned off for $350,000.

A record number of Afghan war deaths in October has forced the U.S. to take new notice of Afghanistan as debate rages over whether President Obama should send tens of thousands more troops.

As the stigma of atheism has diminished, campus atheists and agnostics across the United States are coming out of the closet.

A military judge in Texas has found a former Air Force nurse accused of killing three terminally ill patients not guilty of murder.

Hackers break into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers and post an array of e-mails which causes a stir among skeptics who say discussions show a conspiracy.