For Democrats, the timing was awkward. On Dec. 7, the morning after President Barack Obama announced a tax-and-spending deal with congressional Republicans that will extend unemployment benefits for another 13 months, the Bureau of Labor ...

By Dave Martin, AP By Kelly Whiteside, USA TODAY For Florida athletics director Jeremy Foley, the process of hiring a football coach to replace Urban Meyer, who announced Wednesday that he was stepping down, will begin immediately and probably take two ...

Citrix Systems has pledged its support for Google Chrome OS in 2011. The company will pair its Citrix Receiver virtualization app with Chrome OS netbooks for its customers.

In Elizabeth Edwards' final hours, she was surrounded by loved ones, including her children, her estranged husband and close friends.

US Admiral Mike Mullen (L), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his South Korean counterpart General Han Min-koo, attend a joint news conference at the defence ministry in Seoul December 8, 2010.

On the 30th anniversary of his death Wednesday (December 8), fans participated in Lennon tributes across the globe - including a diverse lineup of Lennon's high-profile acolytes and members of his family who shared ...

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Florida authorities issued an alert late Wednesday night for a 12-year-old girl that police believe was abducted in Virginia by the boyfriend of her dead mother.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police investigating the slaying of a leading Hollywood publicist said on Wednesday that lab tests show a match between the presumed murder weapon and the gun a suspect used to kill himself when officers ...

Three weeks ago, the Celtics took the floor at the TD Garden for a nationally televised Friday night contest with a little extra hop in their step.

The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin talks with Collin Beck, the Solomon Islands' permanent representative to the United Nations, at the UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico.

The move would postpone a 25% reduction in doctors' fees for another year. President Obama urges lawmakers to work on a permanent solution.

Security Council issues statement saying Alassane Ouattara won the election against Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent. The UN security council has backed Alassane Ouattara as the winner of Cote d'Ivoire's disputed presidential election after days of ...

The Red Sox have pulled off another stunning move. Days after acquiring Adrian Gonzalez from the Padres, Boston agreed to a seven-year, $142 million deal with free-agent outfielder Carl Crawford.

Many women in both Sweden and Britain will wonder at the unusual zeal with which Julian Assange is being pursued for rape allegations (Report, 8 December).

As Frank Tupelo in “The Tourist,” which opens tomorrow, Johnny Depp is a Wisconsin math teacher, a widower whose life is upended by a mysterious woman (Angelina Jolie) on a Paris-to-Venice train.

Tony Dejak/AP Zach Greinke has two years and $27 million remaining on his contract with the Kansas City Royals, who are listening to trade proposals.

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday found Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. of Federal District Court in Louisiana guilty on four articles of impeachment and removed him from the bench, the first time the Senate has ousted a federal ...