Ken Stanford

The government says millions of older Americans who rely on federal benefits will get a 1.7 percent increase in their monthly payments next year.

The raspy-voiced, hard-charging editor who invigorated The Washington Post who guided its Watergate coverage, Ben Bradlee, has died.

The federal government is closing a gap in Ebola screening at airports while states from New York to Texas to California work to get hospitals and nurses ready in case another patient turns up somewhere in the U.S. with the deadly disease.

A coalition of prosecutors from across the country gathered for the first time Tuesday in Atlanta to discuss ways to fight gun violence.

The Barrow County Sheriff

The U.S. stock market marched higher Tuesday, giving the Standard & Poor's 500 index its best day of the year.

Two weeks before Election Day, most of the nation's likely voters now expect the Republican Party to take control of the U.S. Senate, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. And by a growing margin, they say that's the outcome they'd like to see.

American detainee Jeffrey Fowle has been released from North Korea, nearly six months after he was taken into custody on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, the State Department said Tuesday. Two other Americans who have been tried and convicted of crimes in North Korea are still being held.