A potentially crippling commuter rail strike in the San Francisco Bay Area is averted when management and unionists reach an agreement hours before a strike deadline, officials say.

Japan’s economy grew 3.7 percent at an annual pace in the second quarter, signaling exports were picking up after the nation’s worst recession since the end of World War II, the government says.

Nearly 123 years after President Chester A. Arthur ’s death, doubts about his U.S. citizenship linger, thanks to lack of documentation and a foe’s claim that he was born in Canada.

As American consumers abandon gas-guzzling SUVs for greener alternatives, they also face a new kind of sticker shock.

Bowing to Republican pressure, the White  signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new U.S. health care system.

Iran on Sunday put on trial 25 more activists and opposition supporters, including a Jewish teenager, for their alleged involvement in the turmoil following the recent presidential election.

Police in the western Nigerian state of Niger have raided an Islamic community and detained hundreds of men, weeks after an uprising by a radical sect killed almost 800 in the remote northeast.

A U.S. man sentenced to seven years in jail for sneaking into the home of detained Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was handed over to an American consular official on Sunday to be flown out of the country.

NYT: Advertising has swamped the airwaves the country as the health care fight has become a full-blown national political campaign.

Texas wins 7-2 as thefts match most in majors this season.