Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama sought Tuesday to send the same message to a critical constituency: They understand that Hispanics share the same economic concerns as other Americans _ and they will...

Sen. John McCain intends to talk about how teachers are paid and tutoring for poor kids when he goes before the NAACP convention next week. The likely Republican presidential nominee wasn't expected to roll out an...

Barack Obama says John McCain's plan to balance the budget doesn't add up. Easy for him to say: It's not a goal he's even trying to reach. Not only does Obama say he won't eliminate the deficit in his first term, as...

Cindy McCain's jab to her husband's back came a second too late Tuesday to keep him from making a wisecrack about the health impact of Iran's main import from the United States: cigarettes. Republican presidential...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain played down reports Tuesday that Iraqi officials are increasing pressure on the United States to agree to a specific timeline to withdraw its forces. McCain said he was...

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has been taken from jail to a Las Vegas hospital for an unspecified medical problem. Las Vegas police Officer Jose Montoya says Jeffs was brought to Sunrise Hospital and Medical...

Ohio now allows out-of-state veterans to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Gov. Ted Strickland announced the change Tuesday as part of a plan to attract more students to Ohio and keep more of...

A wind-stoked wildfire northeast of Sacramento burned dozens of homes Tuesday and has forced thousands of fire-weary residents to flee, state officials said. About 40 homes in the rural Butte County community of Concow...

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it no longer considers reliable a test for tar and nicotine used for more than 40 years and touted by the tobacco industry in marketing "light" and "low-tar" cigarettes. ...

!!-- hobj:139 -->!!-- hobj:138 -->!!-- hobj:137 -->!!-- AUDIO:139,138,137 -->The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan study group...

A young Canadian model was found dead in her Shanghai apartment building this week, and police said Wednesday they suspect she was murdered. An official in the news department of Shanghai's Public Security Bureau said...

Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt may be in France, but her voice has been booming over Colombia's jungles calling on rebels to turn themselves in. Three short messages recorded by Betancourt have been broadcast in the...

A shipment of Russian food aid arrived this week in North Korea, the country's official news agency reported Wednesday. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the aid arrived Monday via train to the...

A former female minister of the Khmer Rouge regime lost her appeal Wednesday for release from pre-trial detention by Cambodia's genocide tribunal where she is being held on charges of crimes against humanity. In their...

A veteran legislator and former political detainee returned his party to power in Grenada on Tuesday after 13 years in opposition, according to preliminary election results. The apparent win by Tillman Thomas' National...

Oil prices rebounded slightly Wednesday in Asia after tumbling more than $5 in the previous session as traders worried about the health of the global economy cashed in gains from the recent rally. Tuesday's drop hurled...

Women may not earn as much as men or fly up the corporate ladder as quickly, but they get the last laugh since they live longer. Right? As it turns out, women probably aren't saving enough to bankroll those extra years...

Alcoa Inc., the world's third-largest aluminum producer, ushered in the second-quarter earnings season by posting a 24 percent earnings decline as rising production costs eroded profits, but the results still exceeded...

A federal judge has dismissed Delta Air Lines Inc. from more than 19 pending lawsuits involving a plane crash that killed 49 people two years ago. U.S. District Judge Karl Forester said in a 13-page opinion Tuesday...

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said Tuesday its members ratified a three-year contract with Hollywood studios, but a rival actors union that campaigned against the deal said it wasn't ready to...

Matthew McConaughey's longtime model girlfriend, Camila Alves, has given birth to the couple's first child, a 7-pound, 4-ounce boy. Alves, 24, gave birth Monday night in California and named the child Levi,...

You wouldn't necessarily know it from last week, but Nielsen Media Research says TV viewership is on the rise. The company said Tuesday that the average American watched 127 1/4 hours of television in May, or the...

Nicole Kidman has described Nashville as a quiet escape, a nice place to raise a garden or grab coffee without photographers in tow. So it really shouldn't be a surprise that it's also where she and husband Keith Urban...

TV One, the cable network aimed at African-American viewers, will cover Barack Obama's nominating convention but is ignoring John McCain's. The network is telecasting live, prime-time coverage of the Democratic...

A court-appointed psychiatrist sized up Christie Brinkley's ill-fated fourth marriage Tuesday, saying the model needs to examine her taste in men and her cheating husband is a narcissist with a bottomless ego. But...

Jair Jurrjens pitched six solid innings, batterymate Brian McCann homered twice and Yunel Escobar hit a three-run double, leading the Atlanta Braves to a 9-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night. One...

Nate McLouth's two-run single in the eighth capped a three-run rally and the Pittsburgh Pirates sent the Houston Astros to their seventh loss in eight games with a rain-soaked 4-3 win Tuesday night. McLouth's line...

Looking decidedly like the Triple-A Portland Beavers, the San Diego Padres came up with a nifty big league result Tuesday night, beating the Florida Marlins 10-1 to snap a nine-game home losing streak. Rookie Chase...

CC Sabathia was a little wild in his debut with the Milwaukee Brewers, but still delivered as advertised in a 7-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night. Sabathia (1-0) gave up two earned runs and five hits...

Orlando Cabrera scored Alexei Ramirez on a perfectly executed hit-and-run double in the 13th inning, and the Chicago White Sox held on for an 8-7 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Nick Masset (1-0)...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Archaeology is in the news again. An interesting juxtaposition of news stories concerns what might be the boyhood home of George Washington on the Rappahannock River and the claim that a collector...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--John Dever, a former professor of church and society at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died of a heart attack July 4 at the age of 72.Dever joined the faculty of the Louisville, Ky.,...

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--God does not make suggestions, Henry Blackaby said. He gives commands.Every time God speaks, "it is life or death, blessing or cursing. When God has something to say to you, He assigns the Holy...

COLUMBIA, Md. (BP)--Billy Bestofall, pastor of The Church of Everyone's Dreams, announces his resignation and the congregation is devastated. They cry, have a farewell chicken dinner and start looking for a replacement....

SALISBURY, Md. (BP)--Lee Hughart was happily working as a bivocational pastor and assistant curator of a historic fort in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina swept through and wiped out his home, church and...

People trust dentists with their health. Some members of Congress are more skeptical. The dental industry, asked to testify Tuesday about pollution from mercury in tooth fillings, found itself under attack from...

Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine. The treatment removes...

QUACK RESEARCH? The government wants to test chelation, a treatment for lead poisoning, on children with autism _ even though there's no evidence it leads to improvements. WHY? Proof that chelation doesn't work might...

A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread. In fact, men given the...

Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government's most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients...

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., maker of the "Shrek" movies and "Kung Fu Panda," announced Tuesday it will switch from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. computer chips to Intel Corp.'s as it moves toward making all 3-D movies....

In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web. The Mountain View-based company unveiled a...

VMware Inc. abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded the business software maker's shares to their lowest depths since the...

Executives from major Internet players _ Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. _ are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a...

More than a year after they were introduced, federal rules intended to keep cell phone towers operating during natural disasters remain in limbo. A federal appeals court on Tuesday put off deciding on the wireless...

A cold front was moving southward over the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes regions early Tuesday, triggering severe storms including heavy rain, strong winds, hail and possible tornadoes. Storms associated...

A cold front sagging south across the Upper Midwest and another front intensifying over the Northern Plains were to combine to spark scattered showers and thunderstorms across much of the Midwest early Monday, while the...

Showers and thunderstorms were expected Sunday from eastern Colorado through Wisconsin. There was a slight chance of severe weather from eastern Nebraska through Wisconsin. Widespread scattered showers and...

Showers and thunderstorms were expected across the Mid-Atlantic on Saturday. Severe weather was not expected, but the region was forecast to receive heavy rain and strong winds. The Boston area was to remain mostly...

A wet Independence Day was forecast for much of the nation, with showers and thunderstorms projected for the Pacific Northwest, the mid-Atlantic, the Ohio Valley and the Southeast. Clear skies were expected over the...