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Retirement worries grow; 30-somethings most uneasy
Younger Americans in their late 30s are now the group most likely to doubt they will be financially secure after retirement, a major shift from three ...
Parents considering legal action over school yoga
A group of parents is bent out of shape by free yoga classes at schools in this San Diego County beachside community, fearing they are indoctrinating ...
Report: Wife of shooter at Wis. spa is 1 of 3 dead
A medical examiner says the wife of the suspected gunman was among three women killed in a shooting rampage at a suburban Milwaukee spa. The Waukesha ...
FedEx sees online shoppers powering holiday record
FedEx expects to ship a record number of packages during the holidays, thanks to shoppers' growing fondness for buying online. The world's ...
'Cloud Atlas' gang ponders hopes for next lives
Tom Hanks wants to be one of the Wright brothers in his next life. Halle Berry and Ben Whishaw would like to come back in feline form. Susan Sarandon ...
The mysteries of mummy conservation
The Penn Museum is unwrapping the mystery of mummy conservation, giving the public an unusual close-up of researchers' efforts to preserve relics from ...
Police find fire, chaos at Wis. spa where 7 shot
A Wisconsin man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked Sunday and shot seven ...
You betcha: Fargo awaits TV version of hit movie
Ask folks in Fargo what they first thought about the 1996 movie that made their city famous, and some will tell you they were not fans. Some residents ...
Voice software helps study of rare Yosemite owls
In the bird world, they make endangered condors seem almost commonplace. The unique Great Gray Owls of Yosemite, left to evolve after glacial ice ...
Hotel official: Fidel Castro appears in public
Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in months, a top hotel executive told The Associated Press on Sunday, challenging persistent ...
Raul Castro bets on Cuban travel amid reforms
Cuba seems to be betting that its decision to allow most of its citizens to travel abroad freely will be as good for its economy as it is for its ...
In Cuban missile showdown, 2 brothers' own crisis
Julio Castro sat at his uncle's Miami home as President John F. Kennedy came on the television the night of Oct. 22, 1962, to tell the nation the ...
Pregnant NYC woman found slain day before wedding
A woman who was eight months pregnant was found stabbed to death Saturday in her apartment, the day before her wedding, police said. Vindalee Smith, ...
1 dead, 6 seriously injured in Arizona bus crash
The bus was on a routine tour of the Grand Canyon, taking tourists from the lights and glamour of Las Vegas to the beauty of the natural wonder.
Floods in France prompt evacuations in shrine town
Pilgrims trek by the millions each year to the Roman Catholic shrine in Lourdes, many looking to drink its spring waters reputed for their healing ...
Women describe circumstances that led to abortion
They say they were using birth control, but it failed. One woman would have had the baby but the man she was in a relationship with didn't want her to
Dozens of states make it hard to get abortions
It's legal to get an abortion in America, but in many places it is hard and getting harder. Just this year, 17 states set new limits on abortion; 24 ...
Mexico fines firefighters, others for bear abuse
A photograph showing firefighters and civil defense personnel holding down a young, bound bear spread-eagled and pulling its ears has sparked outrage ...
Romney says Obama playing 'silly word games'
Republican Mitt Romney is accusing President Barack Obama of engaging in "petty attacks and silly word games" just 18 days before the election.
Banana Boat recalls sunscreen due to fire risk
The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling a half-million bottles of spray-on lotion after reports that a handful of people have caught on fire ...
Wright house in Phoenix to be offered for sale
A Phoenix home designed by noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright had been threatened with demolition but is now about to go on the market. The 1952 home ...
In food-crazy New Orleans, food 'deserts' persist
Dwayne Boudreaux's memories of the Circle Food Store in New Orleans 7th Ward neighborhood are so vivid he can walk through its colonnade of arches ...
WA apple farmers may see boon from bad weather
First, warm spring weather in the Northeast and Midwest tricked apple trees into budding earlier. Then an untimely frost damaged the delicate blossoms
NM peanut capital at heart of national recall
The country's largest organic peanut processing plant is scrubbing its facilities top to bottom and hopes to get back in production soon after a ...
Blast in Afghanistan kills 19 en route to wedding
A roadside bomb tore through a minibus carrying people to a wedding celebration in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 19 people and ...