Abbie Fentress Swanson

Retail websites have bumped back deadlines and are offering free express shipping after weekend snowstorms kept holiday shoppers home in large areas of the East Coast.

Tens of thousands of Iranians turned out for the funeral procession of the country's most senior dissident cleric.

Millions of people along the East Coast are in for potentially dicey commutes as they return to work Monday after a weekend winter storm dropped record snowfall, interrupted holiday shopping and stranded travelers.

Senate Dems voted to overcome a Republican filibuster, 60 to 40, early Monday.

The president arrived in Copenhagen today, the last day of the U.N. climate conference.

Yvonne "Vonnie" King Burch, one of the King Sisters famous in the big band era, died Sunday at age 89.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has temporarily backed out of plans to sell its 34 percent stake in Citigroup Inc. due to a tepid response by investors to a massive stock offer.

President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the House Wednesday muscled through a year-end plan to create jobs, mixing about $50 billion for public works projects with another sum o...

The U.S. says it will give to a $100 billion pool of climate change aid for developing countries.

Congress has a full schedule before taking a holiday break.

If fired, the missile could reach as far as Israel and parts of Europe.

Protests, a forest preservation plan and Lars Loekke Rasmussen steps up in Copenhagen.

The White House plans to announce today that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois as the new home for terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Lincoln Center will offer a discount on same-day tickets to all its performances.

The Philippines' most active volcano oozed lava and shot up plumes of ash today, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes.

Around three dozen people died today in blasts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq today.

The president will meet with Senators this afternoon about passing a health care overhaul.

President Barack Obama is meeting with financial industry executives later this morning. That news comes as banking giant Citigroup says it will repay $20 billion of the $45 billion it received in government bailout money.