State air-quality officials approved the toughest-known restriction on ship emissions in the world Thursday, cutting the diesel exhaust that exposes millions of people along the California coast to...

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain had his own German experience Thursday _ at a restaurant in Ohio. He asserted that he was happy to devote his time this week to touring the nation's he...

Three former aides to ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the former head of the state police were charged with ethics violations Thursday over travel records released to discredit a political rival, a scand...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain is scheduled to meet with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, on Friday in Colorado. The two will meet in Aspen, where the Dalai Lama plans t...

The Russian Defense Ministry has denied a newspaper report that Russia was considering basing nuclear-capable bombers in Cuba, Russian news agencies reported Thursday. The newspaper Izvestia this w...

French lawmakers took a step toward ending the country's decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week, passing a bill that gives companies greater latitude to extend working hours. The new law, ...

A teenager arrested by sheriff's investigators is believed to be the prolific graffiti vandal whose monicker "Wonka" has been scrawled on buses and trains throughout the Los Angeles area. The 17-ye...

The engorged U.S. media posse following Sen. Barack Obama around the world this month is an aberration in these days of shrinking foreign news coverage, but the 200,000 Europeans who heard the Illi...

UC Berkeley scientists steering a fleet of five satellites have unraveled a mystery about what causes the northern lights to brighten suddenly from shimmering green to flaming curtains of red and y...

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, blasted the Bush administration Thursday for conducting what Democrats described as harsh and punitive immigration raids, calling special attention to a raid at a kosh...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bombshell plan to slash the pay of state workers and lay off thousands of other employees to ease a looming cash shortage brought on by the state's budget impasse faces...

Researchers say the long-running debate is settled: Girls are just as good as boys at math. After checking the test scores of 7 million students in 10 states, university researchers found no differ...

Backers of a November initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California plan to tell voters in the state ballot pamphlet that the constitutional amendment would protect children as young as kinderg...

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama delivered a soaring call for international unity to a cheering, flag-waving crowd of 200,000 in Berlin on Thursday while Republican Sen. John McCain battled for attenti...