Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party's likely presidential nominee.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that she shouldn't have suggested in a newspaper interview that Barack Obama was having trouble winning over "hardworking ... white Americans."

Chinese troops rushed to plug "extremely dangerous" cracks in a dam upriver from Dujiangyan an earthquake-hit town, state media said Thursday.

Citing shrinking Arctic sea ice, the Bush administration on Wednesday declared the polar bear a threatened species. But activists were quick to criticize the ruling, saying it was full of loopholes.

Shocking absolutely no one, Syesha Mercado went home on Wednesday night. But who will win the battle of the Davids?

The Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 96-89 Wednesday to take a 3-2 lead in their best-of-7 Eastern Conference semifinal series.

The Red Cross on Wednesday boosted its estimate of the cyclone death toll in Myanmar to as many as 128,000 — a much higher figure than the government tally.

This latest loss for the GOP makes the House 236 Democrats to 199 Republicans.  Can cash and campaigning stop the bleeding come November?

Authorities arrested a man they say was seen throwing a Molotov cocktail into the woods Wednesday in this Atlantic coast town, where several homes have been gutted by wildfires this week.