In the state that may again determine the presidency, voters started casting ballots Tuesday as Barack Obama struggles to thwart a John McCain victory in Ohio four years after it tipped the election to President Bush. ...

Senate to vote on financial rescue plan Wednesday evening. ...

For an audition to be second fiddle, Thursday's debate between often ill-informed newcomer Sarah Palin and often gaffe-prone veteran Joe Biden offers unusually large pitfalls _ and promise. For once, the whole world...

Bill Clinton is playing a starring role in a John McCain commercial. And here's the ad's kicker: "You're right Mr. President." Fancy that. The Republican presidential nominee with a tip of the hat to the last...

Verbal missteps from vice presidential candidates Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska. Each spoke with anchor Katie Couric in separate interviews that aired last week on the "CBS Evening News." ___ ...

A longtime friend of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens crossed the powerful lawmaker Tuesday and testified that he gave the Republican senator thousands of dollars in gifts. The fiercely loyal Stevens gave no indication he even...

President Bush on Tuesday signed a sprawling, stopgap spending bill to keep the government running for the next 12 months. The president's move, which came on the last day of the government's budget year, was expected...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says differences have been resolved over a U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement, clearing the way for a Senate vote Wednesday. The landmark pact, which would overturn 30 years of...

In a case that echoes a "Seinfeld" episode, a former postal worker has been charged with stealing thousands of pieces of mail that authorities say she had kept in a storage unit northwest of Detroit. More than 9,000...

Congress has passed legislation that will require the government to keep closer tabs on who has access to the Internet and who does not. Supporters hope the Broadband Data Improvement Act will help policymakers better...

A senior campaign staffer for the governing Conservative Party resigned Tuesday after admitting he wrote a speech for Prime Minister Stephen Harper that plagiarized another leader's address urging support for the...

Police say 15 people have been killed in a pre-dawn fire at a building in Osaka in western Japan. A police spokesman says the fire broke out early Wednesday in a video shop located on the first floor of the seven-story...

As of Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at least 4,176 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians...

French designer Jean Paul Gaultier turned his headquarters into a rehearsal studio Tuesday, sending out a dance-inspired spring collection driven by his recent collaboration with a top choreographer. The ready-to-wear...

Somali pirates said Tuesday they celebrated a Muslim holiday aboard a hijacked freighter and denied reports that three comrades were killed in a shootout on the vessel, which is being closely watched by a half-dozen...

Stocks are rebounding and a new bailout package could be coming soon, but the credit markets _ where day-to-day borrowing occurs to keep the gears of the economy turning _ are still stuck. Even relatively healthy...

Wall Street snapped back Tuesday after its biggest sell-off in years amid growing expectations that lawmakers will salvage a $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector. But the seized-up credit markets where...

!!-- AUDIO:157,156,144,143,142,141 -->Alarmed by setbacks, supporters of the imperiled multibillion-dollar economic rescue fought to bring it back to life Tuesday, courting reluctant lawmakers with sweeteners including...

Lines eased somewhat Tuesday in Atlanta, the largest city hit by a hurricane-induced gas shortage in the southeast, as Georgia's governor waited for a White House answer to his request to release more crude oil. Gov....

Volatile world stock markets showed mixed reactions Tuesday to U.S. lawmakers' rejection of a $700 billion economic rescue plan, with global investors turning from sellers to buyers as the day progressed. Asian stocks...

Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who's blind, such a scenario _ as shown in the movie "Blindness" _ is not a clever allegory...

Janet Jackson was released from a Montreal hospital just two hours after she arrived, a spokeswoman for the facility said Tuesday, but it was still not clear why she was admitted. The 42-year-old singer became...

After two years of stories about bad ratings and an uncertain future, Katie Couric is back to making news the old-fashioned way _ with her work. The "CBS Evening News" anchor is on an impressive run of interviews,...

Gwen Ifill has a broken ankle, but she'll still serve as the upcoming vice presidential debate's moderator. The veteran PBS newswoman tripped in her Washington area home while walking downstairs Monday, carrying...

Giuseppe Verdi's classic "La Traviata" made a seamless transition from Parisian opulence to the everyday reality of Switzerland's busiest train station Tuesday night _ a challenging experiment in live television...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Fall is here! Now is the time to plan for a fall festival or an alternative to Halloween for your community.Depending on how large an outreach you are planning, you may or may not be behind in...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)--At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind. At home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, it's a different story....

HOUMA, La. (BP)—-"When house was knocked off its stilts, he lost everything," said pastor Marcel McGee at Grand Caillou Baptist Church in Houma, La.Even so, McGee noted that the Grand Cailou attendee was among 20...

TEXAS CITY, Texas (BP)--In Galveston, leaders from local churches and the Baptist association, Southern Baptist disaster relief and the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention met Sept. 25 at the Galveston Baptist...

GALVESTON, Texas (BP)--Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers have prepared 3.7 million hot meals for victims and trained volunteers in the 30-day aftermath of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in Louisiana and...

Could voting for president be hazardous to your health? An analysis of Election Day traffic deaths dating back to Jimmy Carter's 1976 win suggests yes, but the authors say that's no reason not to go to the polls. The...

The government approved a new genetic test for the flu virus Tuesday that will allow labs across the country to identify flu strains within four hours instead of four days. The timesaving test could be crucial if a...

Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday. Medecins...

Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday. Depression is about three times more common in heart attack survivors and those hospitalized with...

Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday. Depression is about three times more common in heart attack survivors and those hospitalized with...

The last-minute pounding Wall Street gave Google's shares was caused by "erroneous orders" that Nasdaq says it is canceling. Minutes before the closing bell Tuesday, a flurry of trades sent the Web search leader's...

The tightening of the global credit markets is crimping the world's largest telecommunications company. AT&T Inc. Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said Tuesday that his company was unable to sell any commercial...

The federal government took a new, ecosystem-based approach to the endangered species list on Tuesday, proposing an all-at-once addition of 48 species, including plants, two birds and a fly, that live only on the...

Hollywood's six major movie studios on Tuesday sued RealNetworks Inc. to prevent it from distributing DVD copying software that they said would allow consumers to "rent, rip and return" movies or even copy friends' DVD...

Environmental groups sued the federal government Tuesday to protect wolverines under the Endangered Species Act, saying the Interior Department disregarded scientific conclusions that the species was in jeopardy. The...

Areas of the Midwest were expecting stormy weather Tuesday, with moderate showers and thunderstorms forecast for the Upper and Lower Great Lakes. Showers were to extend to the Ohio Valley and some areas of the...

The Midwest and Florida were being battered by separate rain systems early Monday, while high pressure was keeping the Plains and Northwest clear. An area of low pressure will bring stormy weather to Florida as it...

New England worried about flooding Sunday as Hurricane Kyle brushed by on its way to Canada. Much of the region was under a flood advisory or warning as heavy rain fell. It was also wet in southern Florida, where...

Hurricane Kyle was forecast to produce strong winds and heavy rain across eastern New England on Sunday but weaken into a tropical storm as it races toward Nova Scotia or Maine. Landfall was expected late Sunday or...

While Hurricane Kyle spun toward the coast of Maine on Saturday, much of the country was quiet, weather-wise. Scattered showers fell along much of the East Coast, while the West remained dry. Temperatures in the...