For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around the country.

The U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, fearing the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama.

New York juries are known for rarely imposing death penalties, and in the case of alleged 9/11 ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed there's even more reason to think that may be the case.

Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.

Since 1954, volunteers in North Pole, Alaska, have opened thousands of letters addressed to Santa and sent replies with North Pole postmarks. But after one volunteer was recognized as a sex offender, the Postal Service is dropping the program – and people are outraged.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is putting two former Pentagon officials in charge of a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings.

Congressional budget crunchers Thursday said the Democrats' latest health care plan would hold down federal red ink for at least a 20-year stretch, an assessment that boosted the bill's advocates as the Senate moved gingerly toward a historic debate.

A U.S. ambassador made a debut attendance for the United States at the world's war crimes court Thursday and said the U.S. remained wary of politically driven prosecutions.

If you want to win the stimulus sweepstakes, it helps to have one of the planet's nastiest toxic waste sites in your back yard.

Suspects in many recent terrorism cases, including Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, shared a devotion to Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric born in New Mexico.