National Guard troops stood ready and batteries and water bottles sold briskly as the New Orleans area watched a storm march across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary.

It was 45-years-ago today that Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech. Tonight, Barack Obama will make history by accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president.

Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land.

Joe Biden set the stage Wednesday for Barack Obama’s historic address as the Democratic nominee by launching a heated attack tying John McCain to the Bush White House.

One man appears determined to crash the party at the Playboy Mansion.

Many veterans of the March on Washington will gather at televisions Thursday night and watch an event they would have considered impossible not just in 1963, but perhaps in 1983, or 1993.

A column of people three blocks long, led by members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, streamed from the Denver Coliseum on Wednesday in an anti-war protest march to the Pepsi Center.

A federal jury recommended the death sentence for convicted child killer Joseph Edward Duncan III on charges related to the kidnapping and murder of Dylan Groene.

More ominous signs have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes.

Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions.

The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of power between the White House and Congress.