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Texas laws bar Wall Street firms from operating in the state if they stop investing in firearms and fossil fuels. An analysis shows that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars this year.

Haiti is spiraling out of control, according to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. How can the U.N. help, and will it involve military intervention?

In middle Tennessee, cleanup and recovery continue after a series of deadly tornadoes early Tuesday which killed more than 20 people and injured dozens of others.

He has set records in his first two years for the sheer numbers of jurists, dozens of them women. He helped confirm 11 Black women to the appeals courts, more than all other presidents combined.

Predictions of rolling blackouts across Europe this month have not come to pass — so far. It's not only because of the mild winter.

The leader of the notorious Zeta drug organization was apprehended Monday in an operation involving the Mexican military. The capture of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, 40, took place on a country road less than 20 miles south of the Texas border.

The Justice Department has accused executives at two of the world's biggest online poker companies of bank fraud. The government took over their accounts and disabled their websites. The case is shaking up the deck in the high stakes electronic gambling industry.

In California, redistricting has given new hope to Democrat Christy Smith, who's lost to GOP Rep. Mike Garcia twice. Latino voters may be torn between a Latino Republican and a white Democrat.

Women have to work nearly 15 months to earn what a man earns in 12. And that's been true for decades.

Ten Republican presidential hopefuls crowd the stage in New Hampshire for a debate that is largely about distancing themselves from President Bush.