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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Read Barack Obama's lips: no new promises....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- So far this spring, President Barack Obama's campaign speeches have been strikingly free of new promises. That's a big change from four years ago....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he wanted an openly gay spokesman who resigned from the campaign to stay on....

WASHINGTON — With financial losses mounting, the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is urging the House to quickly pass legislation that would give it wide authority to close thousands of low-revenue post offices, reduce labor costs and end Saturday delivery.

At its meeting Friday, the Postal Service's board of governors ...

By Charles B. Rangel Rep. Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) on the drug abuse epidemic of the 1980s that led to enhanced criminal penalties for crack cocaine offenses.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled each other for months over the Republican presidential nomination but now they're discussing what part Santorum might play in helping Romney's campaign.

A Canadian company has reapplied for a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department announced Friday.

David Gergen and Nick Kristof discuss what's at stake for the U.S. in dealing with the Chinese activist asking for help.

NEW YORK (AP) — In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a former schoolhouse in Reims, France.

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MIAMI (AP) — Former media mogul Conrad Black was released from a federal prison in Miami early Friday after serving about three years for defrauding investors.

Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke did not give an exact time on when Black was released and said he didn't have any other ...

As the saying goes about political parties and their candidates: Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. And that's exactly what Republicans are doing, or trying to do.

Most of the provisions in a landmark food safety law which passed 16 months ago still haven't gone into effect and are stuck in a rule-making process at the White House, four months overdue.

Yang Su says the deal was almost made to be broken because it was based on erroneous assumptions on the part of American officials

BOULDER, Colo. — Authorities say a bear tranquilized on a Colorado campus last week and widely viewed in photos as it fell from a tree has been killed by a car.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say the black bear was struck on U.S. 36 around dawn Thursday.

Spokeswoman Jennifer ...

China said Friday that the Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic storm has the right to apply to study abroad after he told U.S. lawmakers that he wants to leave his homeland for the United States.

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....