Authorities have begun questioning witnesses to a confrontation that led to a BART police officer shoving an unruly man into a window, a top official said Monday.
President Obama will announce within days whether he will send more troops to Afghanistan, the White House said after he and the National Security Council met Monday night.
A dispute over abortion between the only remaining Kennedy in Congress and his Roman Catholic bishop has highlighted the political volatility of the issue.
Two people were executed Tuesday in China for their part in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six babies and sickened about 300,000 others, state-run media reported.
The South Carolina Ethics Commission has charged Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 counts of violating state ethics laws, according to a complaint released by the commission on Monday.
Senate Democrats cleared a major hurdle this weekend by voting to move ahead with debate on health care reform, but it was hardly a unified party standing behind the bill.
Huddling under umbrellas in a chilly rain, friends, relatives and comrades gathered at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to lay to rest another of the victims of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.
Gunmen kidnapped and killed at least 21 people in the Philippines today in what a presidential adviser called the most "gruesome massacre of civilians" in recent history.
Eight Somali-American men from Minnesota are charged with federal terror-related counts for attempting to recruit fighters for al-Shabaab, a Somali group considered a terror organization by the United States, officials said Monday.
The suspected link between Chinese drywall and toxic effects reported by thousands of U.S. homeowners was strengthened Monday by three government reports.