The government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.s on terms that seem too good to be true a happy situation that may not last much longer.

A leading Senate Democrat said Monday his party is determined to push through a health care overhaul bill with or without Republican support because the "system is broken."

The crackdown on child pornography and other sex offenses has created manpower shortages and technology challenges for probation officers, police and federal agents.

The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood is paralyzed from the chest down and doctors believe his paralysis will be permanent, his lawyer said.

After running out of leads, federal agents investigating civil rights-era killings of black men appealing for relatives of victims to come forward with any evidence or details about the crimes.

A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner's office said Sunday.

States like Ohio that offer financial aid to hunters in order to control high deer populations are getting an unexpected return: Hunters are donating more venison to strapped food banks.

Firefighters have found one body and rescued several people from a fire at a southwestern Indiana motel.

A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car in midtown Manhattan, police said.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant.