.CHICAGO (AP) _ Tuberculosis cases continue to fall in the United States, but some immigrants have disturbingly high rates of the disease, according to a study released Tuesday that called for more aggressive...

.PITTSBURGH (AP) _ A woman accused of slicing open a pregnant woman's belly and taking her baby was obsessed with getting an infant and even had hallucinations of hearing babies cry after a February 1990...

.BOSTON (AP) _ Out-of-state gay couples got one step closer to a Massachusetts wedding Tuesday when the state Senate voted to repeal a 1913 law that has been used to bar them from marrying here. The law...

.PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Governors from the coal fields of West Virginia to the corn fields of Iowa talked Sunday at their summer meeting about moving beyond ethanol produced just from food sources. They sometimes...

.WASHINGTON (AP) _ A bipartisan group of 27 elder statesmen is sending an open letter to both presidential candidates and every member of Congress saying the country faces "a long-term energy crisis" that...

.KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A massive suicide bombing against India's embassy in Kabul could not have succeeded without the support of foreign intelligence agencies, Afghanistan said in a thinly veiled...

.BEIJING (AP) - Negotiations on North Korea's nuclear program will resume this week for the first time in nine months, China said Tuesday. The talks have been on hold since October due to a dispute over...

.BUNGOMA, Kenya (AP) - Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because...