A federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast in 2005.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates a health care plan by Senate Democrats would cover 94 percent of Americans and reduce the number of uninsured by 31 million.

Two people were killed and 21 injured when a tour bus ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch, a state official says.

The split over gay clergy within the country's largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

A Missouri girl charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of her 9-year-old neighbor reportedly told police she "wanted to know what it felt like" to kill, according to police testimony.

Police in Minnesota have arrested two people in connection with assaults that were videotaped and briefly posted on YouTube.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates gathered with mourners in a tiny northeast Tennessee community Wednesday to bury Army Spc. Fred Greene, one of 13 people killed in the massacre at Fort Hood.

Most power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators adopted a first-in-the nation mandate to lower electricity demand.

The crew aboard a U.S. submarine made dozens of errors before the vessel collided with an American warship in the Persian Gulf, a Navy review finds.