Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed announced his resignation Tuesday.

Sons of a missing Utah woman suffered hatchet wounds to their heads.

As U.S. and Britain pull diplomats from Syria, dissidents say more needs to be done to end the killings.

Rick Santorum has spent the past few days shuttling among Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado to make a dent in Mitt Romney's lead.

Drones increasingly are looking to share room in U.S. skies with passenger planes. And that's prompting safety concerns.

House likely to pass bill and governor says she'll sign it, making Washington the seventh state to allow same-sex marriage.

An L.A. school reeling from allegations of lewd conduct against children by two teachers is replacing its faculty and staff.

The judge who overturned California's ban on gay marriage told believers, 'It's not about you.' The appellate court may rule differently.

Rescuers digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by earthquake-triggered landslides on a central Philippine island have found only ...

President Obama is urging his top fundraisers to support a Democratic super political action committee which can spend unlimited amounts of cash ...

Occupy Maine demonstrators removed several large tents over the weekend, and the city on Monday gave them additional time to remove the rest ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took a decisive step Monday toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant group Hamas, a move Israel promptly ...

Two Florida pharmacies ordered more than 3 million oxycodone pills in 2011, more than 20 times higher than the U.S. average, the DEA said.

President Obama's re-election campaign is building on its historic 2008 effort by combining grass-roots organizing with the latest gadgetry.

The Blue Dog Coalition, a faction of centrist, fiscally conservative Democrats, has been decimated in the House.

Congress is again facing a partisan showdown over how to pay for a $160 billion package to extend the payroll tax cut through 2012.

The FBI is cutting back GPS surveillance in criminal and intelligence investigations following a Supreme Court ruling restricting its use.

A mini ice-age has caused record low temperatures in Eastern Europe and rare heavy snow across the continent.

FBI officials say local government officials want the agency's help in dealing with anti-government extremists.

A bill to speed the update the U.S. air traffic control system from radar to one based on GPS technology and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone ...