US Parks Services personnel walk through McPherson Square in Washington, Feb. 2, 2012, where Occupy protesters continue to camp. Police surrounded the park early Saturday morning, Feb. 4, 2012.

Church vows to use courts and legislation to fight 'un-American' requirement for religious employers to provide contraception to workers with government-required health insurance.

A second teacher was removed from campus Thursday morning at the Los Angeles school where Mark Berndt, accused child abuser, taught.

By Emily Flitter | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in New York and Boston will see a far more modest spot.

The most powerful storm of the winter season pounded Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow in the Rocky Mountain foothills and forced the cancellation of more than 600 flights in Denver before heading east toward the central plains.

Authorities have yet to file charges in the alleged murder of marketing executive Jana Bashara, who police say was found strangled last week inside her luxury car on Detroit's East Side.

COLEVILLE, Calif. (AP) - A propane gas explosion damaged several residences in a housing unit for a US Marine Corps training base in northern California, killing one person and injuring two others, an official said Saturday.

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Minutes after a man pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was dumped in a trash bin and later found in a landfill, the little girl's twin brother addressed his sister's killer.

WASHINGTON - Intent on sparing the Pentagon from deep spending cuts, top Senate Republicans on Thursday endorsed legislation that targets federal workers, reducing their ranks and freezing their salaries, to avoid the pain of automatic cuts for one ...

By DYLAN BYERS | Reporters on the trail with Mitt Romney tell me that the new presence of the Secret Service has changed the nature of campaign coverage, creating the impression that Romney is already -- or may very soon become -- the Republican ...

Officials say emergency crews have rescued a worker who was temporarily trapped beneath the tires of a Boeing 787 jetliner at an Everett, Wash.

There's an old saying in political circles: A gaffe is what you make when you unintentionally say what you really believe. If that's the case, Mitt Romney really has been speaking his mind lately.

Roseanne Barr has filed the official paperwork necessary to run for the Green Party nomination for president of the United States.

In his weekly address broadcast Saturday, President Barack Obama called on supporters of his mortgage reform proposal to pressure Congress into passing the legislation - telling voters to remind their representatives who they work for.

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted by military police from the courthouse. Photo: Benjamin Myers WASHINGTON. A US Army officer in Washington has ordered a court martial for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified ...

LAS VEGAS - You won't see Mitt Romney near a craps table or Nevada's legal prostitutes. Instead, Romney is staying in a hotel far from the Vegas strip and embracing his inner Ned Flanders, an upright TV character on The Simpsons.

By Steven Sloan Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Members of the US House-Senate negotiating panel appointed to find a way to extend a payroll tax cut through 2012 tussled over whether they should consider including environmental rules and miscellaneous tax breaks ...