As some Democrats waver over whether the country is “better off today than four years ago,” first lady Michelle Obama told ABC ”World News” anchor Diane Sawyer her answer is yes, and that Americans “are growing to understand just how much we’ve accomplished.” Mrs. Obama pointed......

Five others are sick from the rodent-borne illness.
Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, said, 'We haven't built the best tablet at a certain price. We have built the best tablet at any price.' Our first impression: It will take previous Kindle Fire users no time to see how much better these tablets are.
Ready. Set. Go! Texas to open toll road with 85 mph speed limit, the highest in the US
Olive Garden, LongHorn servers sue restaurants' parent company, claim they were underpaid
A bomb hoax in Philadelphia that turned a Dallas-bound flight around and led to a full scale SWAT response was apparently triggered by a spiteful ex-girlfriend who telephoned authorities to say her former beau was aboard the US Air flight armed with liquid explosives, police told ABC News.
For eight hours, a girl lay under the murdered body of a female believed to be her mother, beside another as-yet unidentified female with a Swedish passport, in the back-seat of a BMW in a car park near the town of Chevaline in the French Alps.
NBC News special correspondent released from hospital after he said he felt "light-headed."
Newburgh, N.Y., police this afternoon called off their investigation of a possible child abduction after determining that the kids who reported the incident had fabricated the entire story.
Famed illusionist David Copperfield has purchased a recently discovered recording of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., announcing that he intends to donate the recording to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. “Audio tapes of Dr. King are extremely rare,” according to collector...
President Obama told supporters in a conference call today that he regretted they wouldn’t be able to see him in person delivering his acceptance speech in Charlotte, N.C., on this final night of the Democratic National Convention. Sixty-five thousand ticket holders learned Wednesday that the...
Newly obtained records from the University of Alabama at Birmingham show that though suspected mass murderer James Holmes was declined admission to the school, one university staffer predicted Holmes would be "a leader in the future."
Boston University's men's ice hockey team was the subject of a scathing report from the university criticizing the team's culture of "sexual entitlement" and alcohol abuse.
President Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for a second term inside the Time Warner Cable Arena here facing a wave of discouraging economic data, a potential bombshell of an August jobs report expected Friday, and a lingering longing for the spirit of the 2008 convention and the promise it represented.
During her first days as an employee at Macy’s Department Store in New York’s Herald Square, Rose Syracuse, then 17 years old, would get lost in the long, intertwining halls and corridors within the landmark building. FDR was president, America was still two years away...
The Kindle Fire HD, Amazon's new souped-up tablet, will be bigger, faster and more expensive, the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced today at a press event in Santa Monica, Calif.