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Dozens of teens gather in a big-city hotel for a holiday weekend. But it's not all fun and games: They're here because someone close in the military -- a parent or sibling -- is dead. For many, it's the first step toward healing.

A four-year-old girl is critically ill in hospital after "falling from height" at Chessington World of Adventure.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heads of the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Justice Department must move quickly and ignore politics in investigating possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heads of the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Justice Department must move quickly and ignore politics in investigating possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Getting money in Haiti can be a harrowing experience: Bank branches are few, most of them are in the capital and a simple transaction can take half a day. Cash machines are scarce as well, and often broken or empty. And then there are the thieves who often wait nearby in hopes of finding a mark....

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Nik Wallenda can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw....

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- Nik Wallenda can't visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations. Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw....

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) -- There was "wind coming from every which way," mist so powerful it clouded his vision and an unfamiliar wire beneath him, but daredevil Nik Wallenda didn't let that stop him from becoming the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls....

A dusty New Mexico town struggles for survival after its mayor, police chief and village trustee admit running guns to the Mexican drug cartels.

Two studies released Sunday may act like brakes on popular social-science assertions that gay parents are the same as — or maybe better than — married, mother-father parents.

"The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go," Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, ...

PARIS (AP) -- French voters are choosing lawmakers for the lower house of parliament Sunday, in a poll that will determine whether new President Francois Hollande's Socialists or rival conservatives control the government....

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Waki Waki | The transhumanist symbolism and techo-foreshadowing hidden in the film Prometheus is even deeper than we first thought.

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Republicans riding high from a string of breaks in their favor are increasingly optimistic about Mitt Romney's chances to claim the White House in November, even among conservatives who had qualms about making him the party's nominee....

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Republicans riding high from a string of breaks in their favor are increasingly optimistic about Mitt Romney's chances to claim the White House in November, even among conservatives who had qualms about making him the party's nominee....

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Republicans riding high from a string of breaks in their favor are increasingly optimistic about Mitt Romney's chances to claim the White House in November, even among conservatives who had qualms about making him the party's nominee....

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Republicans riding high from a string of breaks in their favor are increasingly optimistic about Mitt Romney's chances to claim the White House in November, even among conservatives who had qualms about making him the party's nominee....

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Republicans riding high from a string of breaks in their favor are increasingly optimistic about Mitt Romney's chances to claim the White House in November, even among conservatives who had qualms about making him the party's nominee....

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Republicans riding high from a string of breaks in their favor are increasingly optimistic about Mitt Romney's chances to claim the White House in November, even among conservatives who had qualms about making him the party's nominee....

Reuters | Yesterday, we reported IMF's recommendation for a $46 Billion Euro loan; today the loan climbs to $100 billion.