The opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Winter Olympics were most memorable when they highlighted what makes Canada unique – and different from its southern neighbor.

Senator John McCain on Friday defended Sarah Palin's use of her hand to help her remember some key points at last week's Tea Party convention.

More than 80 percent of respondents to a FOX News website poll said the Tea Party movement is a "Fruitless mix of racism and conspiracy theories."

AP - U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers spearheading the ground assault reached the outer rim of the Taliban-held town Saturday, as a major offensive began to break the extremists' grip over a wide area of their southern heartland.

AP - A biology professor at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus was charged with murder late Friday in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors at the campus.

AP - The show went on — with grief and a closing glitch.