“I apologize to those whom are disappointed in this decision… But I believe that they, when they take a step back, will understand why the decision was made and understand that really you don’t need a title to make a difference in this country,” Sarah Palin said on Fox New after closing the door to a 2012 presidential campaign.
Iowa health officials told reporters Wednesday that a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage after contracting listeriosis, a rare yet serious food-borne illness that arose in early September.
City Commissioners in Dayton, Ohio, approved an initiative that will make it easier for immigrants to live and thrive in the city.
The Arizona Diamondbacks charged ahead with another grand slam home run to defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 10-6 Wednesday and take their divisional playoff series into a deciding Game Five.
Prince Harry spending two months in U.S. for military training.
The St Louis Cardinals staved off elimination with a 5-3 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday, forcing a deciding Game Five in their National League division playoff series.
The Sierra Nevada Mountains may see the first significant snow of the season as higher elevations are under a winter storm warning.
The Philadelphia Phillies, fueled by Ben Francisco's pinch-hit home run, pushed the St. Louis Cardinals to the brink with a 3-2 victory on Tuesday that gave them a 2-1 lead in their National League division series.
The Arizona Diamondbacks can thank a pair of rookies for saving their season on Tuesday, as they routed the Milwaukee Brewers 8-1 to stave off elimination and climb back into their National League divisional playoff series.
An Arizona dust storm triggered several massive traffic pileups that left one dead and several more severely injured.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae with one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess.
A stagnant economy and technological innovation have curbed business travel on the whole; but when face-to-face meetings are necessary, companies can dramatically reduce travel costs by carefully selecting the destination.
Nearly 12,000 California inmates are participating in a hunger strike to call attention to the inhumane treatment of prisoners housed in solitary confinement.
Phoenix-based television pitchman Don Lapre, 47, who was accused of cheating more than 220,000 people out of nearly $52 million, was found dead in his jail cell in Arizona on Sunday morning. It is believed that he commited suicide.
Brown, the second-leading tackler on Illinois, will miss next week's game against Indiana.
Controversy surrounds one play on the Giants' game-winning drive from Sunday.
The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 5-3 behind the masterful pitching of Max Scherzer and the hitting of Miguel Cabrera to level their best-of-five divisional playoff series at 1-1 Sunday.
The Detroit Lions erased a 24-point deficit to stun the Dallas Cowboys 34-30 Sunday and join the Green Bay Packers as the only undefeated teams in the National Football League (NFL).
America has on its priority list to build its students' skills in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math, also known as STEM. But which schools are actually mastering teaching in these areas? The U.S. News & World Report for the first time released a list ranking math- and science-specific high schools.
The Book of Mormon debuted this year as a Broadway hit that won nine Tonys, and the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination features not one, but two candidates of the Mormon faith.
California-based Manning Beef is recalling 80,000 pounds of beef products over possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
Michele Bachmann has been so focused on her presidential campaign that she has been neglecting some of her duties closer to home, missing 58 percent of House roll call votes since July 1.
