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Conservatives alienated over the ordination of an openly gay bishop are prepared to create a rival denomination.
The United Automobile Workers union?s surprise move to accept concessions could be critical in helping the auto industry secure $34 billion in federal aid.
The suspects were accused of taking part in a trans-Atlantic ring that routinely sneaked ivory out of Uganda, Ivory Coast and Cameroon and slipped it past customs.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Conservatives who have left the U.S. Episcopal Church took the first step on Wednesday to form a separate Anglican Church in North America, following years of division over gay rights and scriptural interpretation.
Despite increasingly blunt directions from the nation's highest court, the Oregon Supreme Court has refused to reduce a $79.5 million punitive damages award in a case involving Philip Morris USA.
Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, the first major Republican to announce a challenge to Senator Harry Reid in 2010, was indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday on four counts of fraud related to his handling of public money as state treasurer.
Secretary of commerce may not be the job Bill Richardson hoped for on his tumultuous journey this year, but Barack Obama said on Wednesday that it was not a consolation prize, either.
Rahm Emanuel earned more than $18 million, gaining insight on the financial services sector but building ties with an industry now at the heart of the economic crisis.
A North Carolina group and other advocates began an online campaign urging President-elect Barack Obama to overturn a new rule that clarifies when coal companies can dump mining waste in streams.
Breakaway conservative members of the Episcopal Church in the United States and its Canadian counterpart are expected to formally announce Wednesday the formation of a rival North American Anglican church. After simmering for years, tensions reached a boiling point when the church consecrated an openly gay man, Rev. Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire.
Barack Obama, who vowed in the campaign to ?end the war? in Iraq, is making clear that tens of thousands of troops will stay there.
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said Wednesday that he saw no need for President Bush to pardon any of the officials involved in some of the administration?s most controversial counterterrorism policies.
Hoping to avoid conflict that often stymies planning, officials in Starksboro, Vt., are asking Middlebury College students to help steer development.
Medications are ineffective for many hepatitis C patients who do not respond to initial drug therapy, a new study suggests.
Laura Bush became misty-eyed while reminiscing about her eight years at the White House during the annual press preview of the holiday decorations.
The robbery, in which a 7-year-old boy threatened a classmate with a table knife, is the latest in a series troubling incidents in the Broward County, Fla. school system.
Attorneys for 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers on Wednesday sued the largest U.S. contractor in Iraq, alleging the company knowingly exposed the soldiers to a cancer-causing toxic chemical.
The Department of Defense has identified 621 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the death of the following American on Wednesday:.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley is investigating whether an Edwards Lifesciences Corp heart valve device is being used without proper Food and Drug Administration approval, according to a letter the Iowa Republican released on Wednesday.
Government-issued holsters used by thousands of armed airline pilots increase the chance that guns will be accidentally discharged in the cockpit, according to federal investigators.
Former football great O.J. Simpson, convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping, deserves leniency in sentencing as he is a first-time offender who showed no criminal intent, his attorney says in court papers.
The 19-year-old son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is among four men accused of stabbing a college student ...
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Texas has more mentally disabled patients in institutions than any other U.S. state, and the federal government has concluded ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States made available on Wednesday $197 million to pay for helicopters and other equipment needed by Mexico to fight violent drug cartels, the first part of an anti-narcotics aid package promised almost two years ago.