Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican border.

Barack Obama rebuked Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for "dishonest and divisive" attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terrorists, staunchly defending his national security credentials for the general election campaign.

Lawyers for imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs will ask a judge to drop incest charges this afternoon in an Arizona courtroom.

The White House says Saudi Arabia's leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it.

Faced with drought and a jump in consumption, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has called for cleansing sewage for drinking water and imposing restrictions for watering lawns and washing driveways.

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The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.

Osama bin Laden said in a new audio recording released Friday that al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine.

The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.

Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal Friday and can compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to race against able-bodied athletes, overturning a ban

The White House says Saudi Arabia's leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it.

Young Boulder, Colo. cycling phenom Taylor Phinney is drawing attention toward his father and the disease he is suffering from.

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for heralleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social networkMySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor girl who then committed suicide.

President Hugo Chavez on Thursday vehemently denounced Interpol'sconclusion that documents detailing links between Venezuela andColombia's leftist rebels came directly from rebel computers andweren't tampered with by the Colombians.

In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the CaliforniaSupreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursdayin a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggeststate to tie the knot.

A Department of Veterans Affairs team leader in Texas suggested mentalhealth professionals should diagnose patients with "adjustmentdisorder" rather than post traumatic stress disorder in order to savetime and money treating veterans, according to an internal VA e-mail.

A Chinese state news agency says rescuers have pulled a student tosafety after being trapped for 80 hours in the debris of a schoolfollowing this week's massive earthquake.

Al Qaeda will continue its holy war against Israel and its alliesuntil it liberates Palestine, Osama bin Laden said in a new messageFriday. The message came as President Bush wrapped up his visit to Israel to celebrate the 60th anniversary

Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tiethe knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure weddingbells never ring for gay couples in the nation's most populous state. A conservative group said it would ask California's

Eight people, most of them bank employees, have been fatally shot in a bank robbery in a town south of Manila, police said Friday.