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The primary loss for the longest-serving GOP senator is the latest blow to the political center in the polarized chamber. Nearly half a dozen moderate senators are retiring.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Equivocal no longer, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday in a historic announcement that instantly gave the polarizing social issue a more prominent role in the 2012 race for the White House....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Wednesday repeated his view that marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman, highlighting a sharp contrast with President Barack Obama....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Vidal Sassoon used his hairstyling shears to free women from beehives and hot rollers and give them wash-and-wear cuts that made him an international name in hair care....

Infowars.com | Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner launches criminal investigation.

Police in western Mexico try to identify the remains of 18 people found dismembered and dumped in two cars in Jalisco state.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Two Southern California police officers were ordered Wednesday to stand trial in the death of a mentally ill homeless man following a violent arrest last summer....

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation reports a jump in quarterly profits, boosted by its cable networks and its Hollywood film unit.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An academic analysis finds that the federal appeals court in Washington has effectively blunted a 2008 Supreme Court decision giving terrorist suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval brig the right to contest their confinement....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudan resumed its aerial bombardment of South Sudan, violating international calls for a cessation of hostilities between the two countries, a South Sudanese military official said Wednesday....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudan resumed its aerial bombardment of South Sudan, violating international calls for a cessation of hostilities between the two countries, a South Sudanese military official said Wednesday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge overturned a nearly $10,000 small claims judgment against American Honda Motor Co. that was won by a car owner who said the automaker misrepresented that her hybrid Civic could get 50 miles per gallon, according to a ruling released Wednesday....

Italian sports car maker Ferrari apologises after one of its cars drives on top of an ancient Chinese monument, ahead of a celebratory event, causing damage.

Railroad ties, cement pilings and other debris reportedly mark the entrance to Marcus and Partricia Faella's rural Florida compound, situated on the edge of a wildlife management area marketed by tourism officials as a good spot for hikers, campers and bird watchers.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the U.S. against al-Qaida's spinoff group in Yemen and at least twice have disrupted plots to explode sophisticated bombs aboard airlines....

Blackpool survive a late Birmingham rally to set up a Championship play-off final showdown against West Ham at Wembley.

Atletico Madrid clinch the Europa League as Radamel Falcao scores twice in a comfortable victory over fellow Spaniards Athletic Bilbao.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas authorities say a woman who was allegedly held against her will and tortured before escaping went with her alleged assailant willingly and was not forcibly abducted, as she initially reported....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Airline pilot Denny Fitch was hitching a ride home on a DC-10 in 1989 when heard an explosion somewhere in the back of the jet. He soon made his way to the cockpit to see if the crew needed help....

CAIRO (AP) -- Hosni Mubarak's health sharply deteriorated Wednesday, days after he was sentenced to life in prison, and specialists were evaluating whether to transfer him to a better-equipped hospital outside the penal system, security officials said....