Ken Stanford

The North Georgia Community Foundation (NGCF) has named Tommy and Chantal Bagwell as its 2014 Philanthropists of the Year award winners.

President Barack Obama's policies, national and local economic issues and women's rights sparked clashes Tuesday night as Senate candidates debated in five states with just a month left before Election Day.

Democrat Michelle Nunn and Republican David Perdue accused each other of offering false hope to voters during a rowdy debate Tuesday night in which they traded charges of not being able to advance anything if elected to Georgia's open Senate seat.

Americans are living longer than ever before, according to a new government report filled mostly with good news. U.S. life expectancy inched up again and death rates fell.

Officials in some conservative states, where Supreme Court action could clear the way for same-sex weddings, say they won't issue marriage licenses to gay couples until their hands are forced. Gay rights advocates are preparing and filing new federal lawsuits to do just that.

With a late-November deadline approaching, America's top diplomat is plunging back into Iranian nuclear talks with one eye on his adversary and the other on developments at home, as pressure rises in Washington for a deal ensuring the Islamic republic cannot become a nuclear state.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld gay marriage in Idaho and Nevada, saying bans on the practice in those states violate same-sex couples' equal protection rights.