Barack Obama competed with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday, the latest contests in a historic Democratic presidential race moving inexorably his way. Before vote counting began, Obama...

Republican John McCain, speaking to a raucous crowd on Cuba's independence day, hammered Democrat Barack Obama for saying he would meet with President Raul Castro and called Obama a "tool of organized labor" for...

Barack Obama is well known for his ability to draw large crowds, but 75,000 in Portland, Ore.? The mass of people who converged by foot and by boat on a Willamette River park on Sunday was the largest rally to date for...

IN THE HEADLINES Obama bids for a delegate milestone in Oregon, Kentucky primaries ... Veterans' college aid bill a likely issue in presidential campaign ... Obama's crowds reflect enthusiasm, but also careful crowd...

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For her master's thesis at Columbia University's journalism school, where she graduates Wednesday, Mirsada Buric wrote about herself. More specifically, about four months in 1992, when her village in Bosnia was overrun...

Some faculty members at Furman University have suggested they won't attend graduation ceremonies because President Bush is scheduled to speak, but a group of conservative students wants the university to step in and...

A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures. "He remains in good spirits and...

Statement released by Sen. Edward Kennedy's office from doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital: Over the course of the last several days, we've done a series of tests on Senator Kennedy to determine the cause of his...

Decades after law enforcement raided the ranch where Charles Manson hid following a 1969 killing spree, detectives and scientists returned to hunt for undiscovered graves Tuesday. A group of about 20 people, including...

Aid groups struggled Tuesday to feed and shelter thousands of immigrants chased from their homes by attacks on foreigners, while critics said the government must shoulder some of the blame for the eruption of violence. ...

Thieves, feuding tribesmen and Taliban militants are creating chaos along the main Pakistan-Afghanistan highway, threatening a vital supply line for U.S. and NATO forces. Abductions and arson attacks on the hundreds of...

A Cuban dissident acknowledges receiving $2,400 cash from an anti-Castro group in Miami, but says she doesn't know who brought it to the island. Laura Pollan says she was given the money by fellow political opposition...

Arab mediators scrambled Tuesday to salvage Lebanese crisis talks in Qatar, offering rival factions two proposals on how to end their country's 18-month political deadlock. They gave the feuding camps a day to consider...

More than 30 sources of radiation were buried by debris from the massive earthquake in central China last week and all have either been recovered or safely cordoned off, state media reported Tuesday. A French nuclear...

Russian metals and mining company OAO Severstal offered Tuesday to buy Esmark Inc. for $17 per share in cash, claiming it has the critical support of the United Steelworkers union. The union late last week said it...

Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that...

Wall Street tumbled Tuesday after oil prices spiked to a new record above $129 a barrel and a government report raised investors' concerns about the impact of inflation on consumer spending. The Dow Jones industrials...

Passengers are more dissatisfied with airlines' customer service than they have been in years at a time when carriers are charging more and more for tickets and services. An annual survey being released Tuesday by the...

Gold prices shot higher Tuesday, approaching a one-month high after crude oil spiked to a new record and the dollar fell _ inflationary moves that fed safe-haven buying of precious metals. Crude's rise touched off a...

A fire broke out Tuesday at the Berlin Philharmonic's home, sending thick smoke pouring from the crest of the iconic downtown building as firefighters and musicians rushed to save instruments. The blaze broke out...

Jermaine Jackson and his wife, Alejandra, have finalized their divorce, according to papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Jackson, a former member of the Jackson 5, agreed to pay $50,000 for Alejandra Jackson's...

A prosecutor in the child pornography trial of R. Kelly warned jurors Tuesday they would have to watch a videotape depicting an "underage child performing sex acts that you have never seen before." "A child doesn't...

Pregnant with twins, Angelina Jolie says the story behind her latest drama hits close to home: the loss of a child. Jolie stars in Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," the true story of a Los Angeles woman who endured...

Kristi Yamaguchi is clearly the most talented contestant on "Dancing With the Stars." But the question still looms heading into Tuesday's finale: Can a woman win the celebrity dance-off? Men have won the mirrorball...

NFL owners voted unanimously Tuesday to end their labor agreement with the players' union in 2011. The league and union, however, insisted the next three seasons won't be interrupted by a contract dispute and both sides...

Lucky Lefty and Larry Legend are the latest characters looking for a big score in New Jersey. Mike D'Antoni will try to make the Knicks fortunate before he can make them good, and the Seattle SuperSonics are sending...

Long after practice ended, Ray Allen was still on the court firing up jumpers. He was even making most of them. That overtime work Monday showed that, like his Celtics teammates, he had plenty of energy left after two...

After another test on his ailing right shoulder, John Smoltz declared Tuesday he will give no more updates until he's back on the mound for the Atlanta Braves Smoltz felt some reporters misinterpreted his most recent...

A Nevada prosecutor and a Las Vegas Strip casino say Charles Barkley hasn't settled his $400,000 gambling debt, despite what he said on television. Officials with the Wynn Las Vegas resort and the Clark County district...

Sister Catherine Mulkerrin, who pressed Roman Catholic church leaders in Boston to warn parishioners about priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children, has died. She was 73. Mulkerrin died Saturday at...

Sister Catherine Mulkerrin, who pressed Roman Catholic church leaders in Boston to warn parishioners about priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children, has died. She was 73. Mulkerrin died Saturday at...

TAYLORS, S.C. (BP)--I have been speaking recently about the upcoming Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis, where our North American Mission Board will share a national evangelism strategy. Almost...

HOUSTON (BP)--When several thousand people walked out of church in their stocking feet at Fellowship of the Woodlands near Houston, Texas, they made a simple but huge difference in their community."A big church makes a...

NEW ORLEANS (BP)--When ABC network television's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition producers brainstormed about the 2008 season finale, their thoughts turned to New Orleans.Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a television...

They're the cold cases of medicine, patients with diseases so rare and mysterious that they've eluded diagnosis for years. The National Institutes of Health is seeking those patients _ and ones who qualify could get...

A hepatitis C outbreak was caused by workers improperly reusing syringes and medicine vials at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted by...

A hepatitis C outbreak was caused by workers improperly reusing syringes and medicine vials at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted by...

A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City's 1985 quake. Now, in China, rescuers are...

Health regulators warned again Friday that Roche and Novartis drugs prescribed to organ transplant patients can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women. The Food and Drug Administration last...

Lawyers on both sides of a shareholder lawsuit over Yahoo Inc.'s board's handling of Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover offer are accusing one another of turning it into a public relations battle. A Delaware judge...

Preparing for the eventual extinction of its DVD-by-mail rental service, Netflix Inc. on Tuesday introduced its first solution for subscribers who want entertainment delivered directly to their television sets with just...

Strong, versatile little "nanotubes" made out of carbon are considered future stars in nanotechnology research in medicine and industry. Now a study finds that longer threads of the stuff mimic the toxic qualities of...

A Cisco Systems Inc. executive told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that comments in an internal document about China's goal to "combat" a religious group did not reflect the company's views on censorship. The PowerPoint...

Napster Inc. begins selling MP3s Tuesday, a move the online music service hopes will lure iPod users and turn around Napster's sliding fortunes. The company is the latest to make the switch to the unrestricted file...

A low pressure system in the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys was expected to bring showers and thunderstorms as it moves east Tuesday across the Mid-Atlantic. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue over the...

Rainy, cold weather was forecast Monday for the Northeast, with the heaviest rainfall projected for northern Maine. A southbound cold front was expected to bring wet weather to the Northern Plains and parts of the...

Rain was forecast Sunday for the Ohio Valley and parts of the Northeast. Thunderstorms were possible in an area extending from Alabama to the Mid-Atlantic states as a cold front moves through the region. A lingering...

Showers and thunderstorms were expected in Florida and parts of the Southeast Coast on Saturday. Showers were also expected in the coastal areas of New England, while scattered showers were predicted for the Great...

Wet weather was expected Friday from New England all the way south to the Gulf Coast. Severe thunderstorms were anticipated along the coastline of the Southeast, with damaging winds and a few weak tornadoes forecast in...