Ken Stanford

The Supreme Court has refused a group of doctors' request to block implementation of the nation's new health care law.

The first batch of Syrian poison gas precursor chemicals was loaded onto a Danish cargo ship and taken out of the war-torn country Tuesday - a week later than initially planned, the United Nations announced.

U.S. home prices barely rose in November from the previous month and year-over-year gains slowed, reflecting declines in sales in the fall. In another report, the government says the U.S. trade deficit fell in November to its lowest level in four years.

Anti-smoking measures have saved roughly 8 million U.S. lives since a landmark 1964 report linking smoking and disease, a study estimates, yet the nation's top disease detective says dozens of other countries do a better job on several efforts to cut tobacco use.

The Senate plunged into an election-year session Monday that promises to be long on political maneuvering and less so on accomplishment, beginning with a slow-motion struggle over legislation to renew lapsed jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.

Gay couples in Utah were thrown into legal limbo Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court put a halt to same-sex marriages in the state, turning jubilation to doubt just weeks after a judge's ruling sent more than a thousand couples rushing to get married.

Even as his health care law divided the nation, President Barack Obama's first term saw historically low growth in health costs, government experts said in a new report Monday.

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said Monday she is abandoning her effort to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming.

Temperatures plunged into the 20s in parts of north Georgia overnight and this morning, the frigid start of dangerously cold temperatures for the first part of the week.

Three people have been selected as finalists to become chancellor of Louisiana State University of Alexandria.