A growing number of soldiers are choosing to stay in the U.S. military because of the bleak economy.

Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new U.S. report that calls on hospitals to let them have a nap.

Plaxico Burress spent much of Tuesday at Giants Stadium facing the possibility his career with the Super Bowl champions could be over, while the police were still trying to sort out the events surrounding the Manhattan nightclub shooting.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates signals he'll forge ahead with two priorities for the Obama administration: accelerating withdrawal from Iraq and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

As American shoppers embark on their annual shopping binge , a prickly marketing question splits American consumers and stores: “Christmas” or “holiday”?

The United Nations expressed concern Tuesday about overcrowding and "grave human rights violations" of detainees in Iraqi custody — in one case, 123 men crammed into a single cell.

One of two men videotaped coaxing two toddlers into smoking marijuana pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced Tuesday to up to seven years in prison.

Georgia's seemingly endless U.S. Senate campaign drew to a finish on Tuesday as polls closed on the hotly contested race that will sway the balance of power in Washington.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski, a fugitive in Europe for the last 30 years, has filed a request in Los Angeles to have a child-sex charge against him dismissed.

The Super Bowl?  The Oscars? Who cares? The biggest star-studded event on the horizon is President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.

Environmentalists criticized the United States and other rich countries Tuesday for failing so far to make meaningful commitments at a U.N. conference on climate change.

Pirates near Somalia chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel, a maritime official said Tuesday.

The president-elect pledged quick work Tuesday on an economic recovery plan to include tax cuts and increased federal spending, and told the nation's governors he wants their advice.

Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand declared victory Tuesday and said they will end their occupation of the country's two main airports after the prime minister was forced from office.

The gunmen who attacked Mumbai set out by boat from the Pakistani port of Karachi, then hijacked an Indian fishing trawler that carried them to their suicide mission, a top police official said Tuesday.

A husband and wife were arrested after an emaciated, terrified and nearly naked 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, saying he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday.