.LOS ANGELES (AP) - The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the...

.GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) _ A huge blast rocked a training base run by the Islamic militant Hamas in southern Gaza late Tuesday, injuring at least five members of the group, witnesses and a health official...

.WASHINGTON (AP) - As speculation swirls, Barack Obama and John McCain are knuckling down to the work of choosing running mates with their nominating conventions just weeks away. Current and former governors...

.WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Ted Stevens, the nation's longest-serving Republican senator and a major figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, was indicted Tuesday on seven felony counts of concealing...

.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...

.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...

.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...