Posted: 5:12 PM Comedian Stephen Colbert, who says he's running for president of "The United States of South Carolina," is urging voters in Saturday's presidential primary to cast their ballots for former Republican hopeful Herman Cain.
Posted: 4:47 PM The Dow rose 97 points Friday to close at 12,720.
Updated: 2:54 PM Etta James, whose assertive, earthy voice lit up such hits as "The Wallflower" "Something's Got a Hold on Me" and the wedding favorite "At Last," has died, according to her longtime friend and manager, Lupe De Leon. She was 73 and had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2010.
Updated: 10:50 AM In the wake of record-breaking extreme weather in 2011, campaign says it’s essential that T.V. meteorologists “Forecast The Facts“
Posted: 11:07 PM A spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Corrections says a 20-year-old maintenance worker who recently pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera has been found dead of an apparent suicide.
Updated: 10:43 PM The race for the Republican presidential nomination took a turn toward the South Carolina surreal Thursday as Rick Perry dropped out, Newt Gingrich faced stunning allegations from an ex-wife and Mitt Romney struggled to maintain a shaky front-runner's standing.
Posted: 10:25 PM As the food stamp program has become an issue in the Republican presidential primary, with candidates seeking to tie President Barack Obama to the program's record numbers, The Associated Press interviewed recipients across the country and found many who wished that critics would spend some time in their shoes.
Updated: 5:32 PM Five days before a critical vote, senators are abandoning an anti-piracy bill they had supported after an outpouring of online opposition to tinkering with Internet freedoms.
Posted: 4:37 PM The Dow Jones industrial average is finishing up 45 points at 12,624.
Updated: 7:06 PM Magic Kingdom visitors will likely get to see an animatronic version of the president at the Hall of President's attraction, but the real president will be just a hundred yards away.
Updated: 11:42 AM Los Angeles police looked for more human body parts Wednesday after searchers discovered two hands and two feet in the same area of a park where dog walkers found a severed human head inside a plastic bag.
Updated: 11:59 PM In a politically explosive decision, President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected plans for a massive oil pipeline through the heart of the United States.
Posted: 4:45 PM The Dow Jones industrial average added 97 points to end at 12,579, the highest since July 25.
Posted: 11:22 PM U.S. officials say a former BP executive was paid $107,000 a month to do consulting for a company lawyer, but allege the money may have been designed to influence her testimony during a deposition in litigation over the Gulf oil spill.
Posted: 4:36 PM The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 60 points, or 0.5 percent, at 12,482.
Updated: 12:15 AM The Republican presidential contenders are campaigning their way into the first of two debates before a decisive weekend vote in South Carolina.
Updated: 12:00 AM The grounding and capsizing of the Costa Concordia has raised questions about the safety of the ever-increasing size of cruise ships
Updated: 4:59 PM No one will be charged for removing thousands of trees along I-10
Updated: 11:03 PM The question of lawyers' fees is contentious. Louisiana's attorney general and lawyers working to settle clients' claims outside of court claim Barbier's fee structure unfairly rewards trial lawyers.
Updated: 4:29 PM The Dow Jones industrial average fell 49 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 12,422 Friday.
Posted: 11:18 PM The Obama administration and the Taliban each voiced readiness Thursday to enter peace talks while pledging to carry on with a decade of military conflict in Afghanistan until their rival objectives are met.
Posted: 11:15 PM A senior U.N. nuclear agency team will visit Tehran on Jan. 28 with Iran saying it is ready after years of refusal to discuss allegations that it was involved in secret nuclear weapons work, diplomats said Thursday.
Posted: 11:12 PM An array of Republicans and conservatives - including some of Mitt Romney's sharpest critics - rushed to the GOP presidential front-runner's defense Thursday to counter efforts to paint the former venture capitalist as a job-killer.
Posted: 4:38 PM Texas Rep. Ron Paul's libertarian message of less government, personal liberty and ending U.S. military involvement overseas clicks with young people, who are supplying zest for his stronger-than-expected presidential campaign.
Posted: 4:31 PM The Dow Jones industrial average gained 22 points, or 0.2 percent, to end at 12,471 Thursday.
