Up to 20 inches more snow is expected to fall in Washington, D.C., parts of Virginia and Maryland, where residents are still digging out after a weekend blizzard.
Turn off the television, drink more water and serve smaller portions to fight childhood obesity, first lady Michelle Obama is urging as she launches a national campaign against childhood obesity.
As promised, Iran began enriching uranium to 20 percent on Tuesday, state media said.
U.S. missionaries in Haiti who face kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of the country made an earlier attempt to take kids, says a Haitian police officer.
Toyota's president apologized Tuesday as he announced the global recall of more than 400,000 of the automaker's 2010 hybrid models, including the Prius.
As they head toward a rendezvous with the international space station, crew members of the space shuttle Endeavour are checking for any signs of damage after Monday's early morning launch.
An Iraq war veteran has been charged with assault on suspicion of abusing his daughter, whose head he allegedly held in water to get her to recite the ABCs, according to police in Yelm, Washington.
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, three Taliban sources said Tuesday.
South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sanford, said Monday that writing her much-anticipated memoir of her husband's affair was a "cathartic" and "cleansing" experience.
More than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York, many of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, have been sickened with mumps since August, health authorities said Monday.
In his hectic, noisy laboratory at the University of Maryland, Michael Pecht is wary when it comes to assessing whether Toyota's suggested repair of sticky gas pedals will have any real impact.
A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported Monday.
Rep. John Murtha died after gallbladder surgery complications, his office said. An ex-Marine who became an Iraq war critic, he was known as one of the "kings of pork."
To prove involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors will have to convince jurors that Michael Jackson's doctor took risks he shouldn't have -- and that other doctors wouldn't have, legal experts say.
A woman convicted in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty in the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin a month later, court officials said Monday.
A group of Americans accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children had authorization from neighboring Dominican Republic to bring the kids across the border, a lawyer for the group said Monday.
A man was murdered in his Dubai hotel room by a hit squad that operated with European passports, police say. Sounds like the plot of a novel, but this is reality and the hunt is on for the killers of top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
A former Sri Lankan general who ran against President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January has been arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the country's government, authorities announced Monday night.
Three people were shot amid celebrations surrounding the New Orleans Saints' Super Bowl win, police said Monday.