A press photographer is wounded as shots are fired when violence flares for a second night in sectarian clashes near a Catholic enclave in east Belfast.
Social Security isn't broke, but it is poorly designed for a nation that has changed so dramatically since the 1930s. What Social Security needs is solvency and modernization.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - U.S. nuclear power plant operators haven't figured out how to quickly detect leaks of radioactive water from aging pipes that snake underneath the sites — and the leaks, often undetected for years, are not going to stop, according to a new report by congressional investigators.
AP - President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
AP - Facing a war-weary public, President Barack Obama is expected to call for a major withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan Wednesday night, with roughly 10,000 coming home to the U.S. in less than a year.
Wildfires burning across more than 1.4 million acres in the United States have forced the evacuation of 1,800 homes and businesses in one Texas county and claimed the lives of two firefighters in Florida, authorities said Tuesday.
Officials ordered evacuations from Minot, North Dakota, and surrounding areas because of expected record flooding. "We're going to become a pool," the mayor said.
Mexican authorities captured Jesus Mendez Vargas, the top leader of one of the country's most violent drug cartels, officials said. Mendez is known as "The Monkey."