Ken Stanford

Sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating him, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings went silent: he'd just been read his constitutional rights.

A large fire that began with explosions aboard two fuel barges in Mobile, Ala., is burning into Thursday morning after injuring three people.

Confidence in the U.S. job market has rebounded to roughly a normal level from its record low after the Great Recession, a trend that could help boost the economy.

Two U.S. officials briefed on the Boston marathon investigation say the Russian government contacted the FBI and the CIA separately in 2011 with concerns about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the men authorities say was behind the attacks.

For a few surreal minutes, a mere 12 words on Twitter caused the world's mightiest stock market to tremble.

An effort by House Republicans to highlight problems with President Barack Obama's health care law by bailing out a program for people with pre-existing medical conditions appeared to backfire Wednesday.

Rhode Island senators put the state on the path Wednesday to becoming the 10th state to allow same-sex couples to marry.

U.S. investigators are in contact with the parents of the two Boston bombing suspects in southern Russia and working with Russian security officials to shed light on the deadly attack, a U.S. Embassy official said Wednesday.

Democrats are treading carefully when it comes to a proposed addition to the bipartisan immigration overhaul. I