The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study briefed ... more

In an Associated Press telephone interview shortly after President-elect Barack Obama announced that James L. Jones will be his national security adviser, Jones discussed his ... more

The Institute for Supply Management's monthly manufacturing index dropped to a 26-year low Monday -- another dire read on the economy that helped send stocks ... more

Rhode Island's Democratic U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is praising President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Eric Holder for Attorney General.

Two suspects have pleaded not guilty in the shooting of a Long Island attorney in what authorities say was a murder-for-hire plot.

Federal health officials estimate that the struggling economy will speed up by one to three years the exhaustion of the Medicare trust fund covering hospital ... more