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DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) - Delaware legalized gay marriage on Tuesday, making it the 11th U.S. state to extend marriage righ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers appeared on Tuesday to be short of th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited landmark legislation to remove the thr...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The daughter of President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor was indicted on Wednesday on cha...
Kid Rock is set to take a hefty pay cut this summer after unveiling plans to charge fans just $20 to attend dates on his ...
MERIDEN/NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school ...
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp has been sued by a woman who said her two-year-old son ate a used condom he found in the play...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate have spread his gun-control proposals acro...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A potent winter storm bore down on the southern U.S. Plains on Monday, dumping more than a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union address on Tuesday with one eye on the politic...
(Reuters) - The percentage of workers belonging to unions tumbled to 11.3 percent in 2012, the lowest percentage in 76 years,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Monday to reject political "absolutism" and partis...
MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A major winter storm system swept through the southern United States on Tuesday, spawning tornado...
WASHINGTON/NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The powerful U.S. gun rights lobby went on the offensive on Friday arguing that s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - His words have been eloquent and sympathetic, as they typically are when he is the voice of a nation i...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner held a "frank" face...
(Reuters) - Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent was released on $500,000 bail on Sunday after being charged with i...
Jeff Beck, John Mayer, Vince Gill and Brad Paisley will be among the stars joining Eric Clapton onstage at the guitar great&#...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won the endorsement of retired General Colin Powell, a moderate Republican, on Thu...
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A judge on Tuesday blocked Pennsylvania from requiring voters to show photo identificati...
(Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan was involved in a scuffle with a man at a New York hotel on Sunday, police said, over what ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - School was out in Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care after public school teachers sta...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just as music and lighting can influence what shoppers buy, toning down the tunes and dimming the lights...
JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - A paramedic who testified on Thursday at the murder trial of Drew Peterson, a former police offi...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Oppressive heat and a worsening drought in the Midwest pushed grain prices near or past record...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With 24 restaurants around the world, 11 Michelin stars, numerous cookbooks, and TV shows, Gordon Ramsay...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest baked in an unrelenting heat wave on Monday with fears rising of bi...
LEWISBURG, W.V. (Reuters) - Six days after violent storms hit the eastern United States, the state of West Virginia was strug...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of Americans headed for parades and fireworks shows on Wednesday to mark a sweltering Fourth ...
A rain delay didn't stop the show during a baseball game in Joliet, IL. This may be more exciting than the game itself!
(Reuters) - More than 1.4 million people from Illinois to Virginia remained without power Tuesday morning after the weekend&#...
Expectant star Reese Witherspoon proved she has no plans to slow down during her third pregnancy as she began shooting new We...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A heat wave blanketed the U.S. mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Thursday, sparking brownouts in New York Ci...
When Whitney Calk sought a personalized license plate from a Tennessee state agency to tout her vegetarian ideals, she was an...
(Reuters) - When Whitney Calk sought a personalized license plate from a Tennessee state agency to tout her vegetarian ideals...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama enlisted Bill Clinton to campaign alongside him in New York on Monday, tapping th...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin's Scott Walker became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall election on ...
Illinois StateRepresentative, Mike Bost, angrily screams and throws paperson the House floor after being expected to vote on ...
(Reuters) - ATLANTA - When he entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in May 2011, Newt Gingrich was the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration forged ahead with healthcare reforms on Wednesday, announcing a November 16 d...
(Reuters) - Personal income tax collections in states in April might have grown an average of more than 7 percent, but for so...
WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois (Reuters) - Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The would-be suicide bomber in a plot by al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate was planted in the group by a...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hospitals are ripping out wall-mounted toilets and replacing them with floor models to better suppo...
RED BUD, Illinois (Reuters) - A retired couple in a southern Illinois town claimed their one-third share of a record $656...
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - One of Patrick Flanagan's favorite movies as a kid was "Night of the Living Dead," a 1968...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Clean-up efforts were underway across the Midwest on Sunday after dozens of tornadoes ripped across...
Rocker Perry Farrell is overjoyed to have booked Black Sabbath for Lollapalooza in what will mark the band's only U.S. da...
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The second of three winners of the record U.S. $656 million jackpot has come forward and wishes to ...
VICTORIA, Texas (Reuters) - It hasn't been long since Caterpillar Inc <CAT.N> looked like the typical resident of t...
By David BeasleyATLANTA (Reuters) - The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history of $640 million has at least three winner...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory over top rival Rick Santorum in Illinois on Tuesday, mo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be headed for an important victory in Illinois on Tuesda...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite a well-deserved reputation for scandals, New Jersey is among the state leaders in the fight ag...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Republican Rick Santorum won a pair of crucial Deep South primaries on Tuesday, taking contro...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Harvey and Cora Alter decided to move away from Washington, D.C., for their retirement, friends were...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign would like to be focusing its attacks on Democratic President ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Powerful storms that spawned tornadoes ripped through the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, killing...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The city where gangster Al Capone once kept the mayor on his payroll ranked first in public corruption co...
(Reuters) - Catholic bishops, energized by a battle over contraception funding, are planning an aggressive campaign to rally ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. automaker Chrysler Group LLC swung to a full-year net income of $183 million on Wednesday, and m...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The short days, the weak sun, and the warm beds of winter can wreak havoc on your fitness routine.As the...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass (Reuters) - Wind, rain and snow blanketed much of the Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, ushering in a more t...
(Reuters) - Jim and Celeste Durkin thought when they began investing six years ago in Illinois state's prepaid college saving...
(Reuters) - Children who get more exercise also tend to do better in school, whether the exercise comes as recess, physical e...
Bret Michaels helped two loved-up fans ring in the New Year in style after they got engaged at his show.The rocker was perfor...
By Meredith DavisCHICAGO (Reuters) - For the past decade, cattle ranchers and meat packers watched with despair as America's ...
R. Kelly gave his first performance since his emergency throat surgery by singing on the final of The X Factor on Wednesday n...
Singer Morrissey stormed off stage and cut short the final gig of his North American tour on Sunday night after slamming secu...
By Chip BarnetNEW YORK (Reuters) - The population of the United States is growing at its slowest rate in more than 70 years, ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Judging by their "before" and "after" photographs, U.S. presidents appear to age befo...
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is launching an unlikely new venture - he's opening a tea house in his native Illinoi...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for pol...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lawyers for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Tuesday to show m...
(Reuters) - For Harley-Davidson, Michael Adams is a godsend.When the 22-year-old college senior showed up for a $25 rider...
Sean "Diddy" Combs is to join the ranks of the proud celebrity dads on college football sidelines next season - his...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday dismissed the case against an Illinois man who was accused of stalking actress a...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An Illinois man pleaded not guilty on Thursday to stalking teenage actress Selena Gomez, best known f...
Country star Gretchen Wilson is mourning the death of her beloved uncle.Vern Heuer, 44, passed away at his home in Greenville...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Republicans not to play "political games" with his jobs pla...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The attacks of September 11, 2001 changed life in the United States forever, but 10 years after the deva...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Picking top barbecue spots is a tad dangerous. The emotions connected to hometown recipes run as deeply ...
PATERSON, N.J./BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) - Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devast...
Leann Rimes had a run-in with a rude diner on Saturday after she approached the star's table in an Illinois restaurant to urg...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new nonfiction book will examine teen pop star Justin Bieber's belief in Christianity that he has refe...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered a hearing in the case of accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prices for farmland in the heart of the U.S. grain belt were up 17 percent in the second quarter compared...
PEOSTA, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to turn voter anger over the economy toward Republicans in ...
DECORAH, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce fresh steps to boost rural hiring on the second day...
Charlie Sheen was pelted with missiles and suffered a barrage of booing during an appearance at music festival Gathering of t...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable has reached a deal to buy The Carlyle Group's cable operator Insight Communications Co...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty became the first major casualty in the marathon presidential ca...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Miranda Cosgrove, the 18-year-old star of Nickelodeon's "iCarly" TV show, broke her ankle w...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and t...
