Four people were shot dead early Friday outside a house party in Milwaukee, police said.

A ferocious wildfire burning through the Los Padres National Forest continued creeping closer to town on the Fourth of July, after jumping a fire line and claiming several more homes this week.

Thousands of personal items which belonged to Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer,  are set to be sold at auction.

Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.

The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.

Three U.S. hostages rescued from leftist guerrillas in Colombia were in good condition, military officials said.

An internal State Department investigative report suggests that employees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebrities far more than previously disclosed and urges new action to secure the files.

Democrat Barack Obama struggled Thursday to explain how his upcoming trip to Iraq might refine, but not basically alter, his promise to quickly remove U.S. combat troops from the war.

In a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing the state's energy costs, Utah is about to become the first state to switch to a four-day workweek for thousands of government employees.

Franklin Smith had a wife and infant son when he convinced a Biloxi, Miss. recruiter  that he wanted to be a Marine.  For the recruiter, bringing in a family man was a dropout risk.

A suburban Chicago man locked his two young daughters in a wire cage hidden in the back of his pickup truck because he didn't have a baby sitter, officials said Thursday.

State regulators say Six Flags Over Georgia must increase the size and number of warning signs near a popular roller coaster that hit and killed a teen.

The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that an initiative to regulate or restrict pollution from mining can be placed on the ballot in August for voters to consider.

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