One fifth of animal and plant species are threatened by extinction, a global study warns, but conservation efforts have pulled some back from the brink.
At a women's conference, moderator Matt Lauer challenges California's gubernatorial candidates to stop negative ads. Jerry Brown said he would if Meg Whitman did. Whitman skirted the issue.
Anonymously financed groups are starting a coordinated final push to deliver control of Congress to Republicans, shifting money among some 80 races they are monitoring.
Voters in Larimer County, which will play a pivotal role in Colorado’s elections, express hard-to-pin-down moods and seek reassurance about their direction.
AP - A massive storm with wind gusts up to 81 mph howled across the nation's midsection Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines, ripping off roofs, delaying flights and soaking commuters hunched under crumpled umbrellas.
AP - A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia — spasms from the Pacific "Ring of Fire," which spawns disasters from deep within the Earth.
AP - California GOP Senate challenger Carly Fiorina was sidelined Tuesday from the campaign trail in the final week of a close race to be treated for an infection associated with her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer.
Video aired in court showed a team of men dressed like ninjas break into a Florida home -- with one of them singling out Leonard Gonzalez Jr. as the group's ringleader.
Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr tossed a grenade "with the specific intent of killing or injuring as many Americans as he could" at the end of a July 2002 firefight in Afghanistan, according to a stipulation of facts document Khadr signed as part of his guilty plea.