LONDON - ''Harry Potter'' author J.K. Rowling has given birth to a baby girl, a Scottish hospital said. A spokesman said the writer and her baby were both doing well and had been discharged from the hospital early Monday.

NEW YORK - Star Jones Reynolds will be back on the red carpet for E! Entertainment Television's coverage of this year's Screen Actors Guild, Grammy and Academy Awards.

Reba McEntire will be joined on her sitcom by another country-music star later this season when Dolly Parton guest-stars on an episode.

CAPITOL HILL Overhauling social security heads the Top Ten list that Senate Republicans have unveiled for the coming year.Their other priorities include more tax...

Resending to link sound Asa Hutchinson to leave number two job at Department of Homeland SecurityWASHINGTON (AP) _ After being passed over twice by President Bush,...

WASHINGTON After being passed over twice by President Bush, Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson is calling it quits.Earlier this month, Bush chose federal...

CHICAGO The maker of the painkiller drug Vioxx didn't like what researchers found when they looked at a link between the drug and heart attacks.The company -- Merck -- had...

WASHINGTON How many Americans are homeless? Officials could get a better handle on that this week, as officials in dozens of communities around the country try to count those...

This article from PR Week details the increasing opportunities for the use of "Video News releases", or VNRs -- ads disguised as news reports distributed by PR companies to be broadcast as news -- thanks to "a shrinking news hole".

The Fall 2004 Survey of Berkeley Freshmen reveals that 51.2% of respondents think of themselves as liberal, 36.8% deem their political views "middle of the road," and 12% are conservative. That's quite a bit more liberal than the average group

For those not yet convinced that hippos and whales are first cousins, a UC Berkeley researcher has the definitive proof: a now extinct group of mammals that is the missing fossil link these two disparate beasts.

The Chicago Bears and Brad Maynard have come to terms on a five-year contract extension that will keep the punter with the team through the 2010 season.

The Chicago Bears and Brad Maynard have come to terms on a five-year contract extension that will keep the punter with the team through the 2010 season.

The Chicago Bears and Brad Maynard have come to terms on a five-year contract extension that will keep the punter with the team through the 2010 season.

The Chicago Bears and Brad Maynard have come to terms on a five-year contract extension that will keep the punter with the team through the 2010 season.

The Chicago Bears and Brad Maynard have come to terms on a five-year contract extension that will keep the punter with the team through the 2010 season.

The state treasurer's office is proposing a life insurance benefit for families of North Carolina National Guardsmen killed in the line of duty.

THE GIZMO: 2005 CRT TVs.But the powers that be at mass-market TV brands recognize that mainstream American viewers still are not ready to take out a second mortgage to buy an interior-decorator-approved, supersleek TV optimized for tuning widescreen, high-definition digital

TRENTON, N.J. - Hospitals must disclose the daily ratio of patients to nurses under a law signed Monday by acting Gov. Richard J. Codey.

WASHINGTON - Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., said Monday he will introduce legislation establishing federal guidelines on rail shipment of hazardous materials and chemicals following a recent train wreck in South Carolina that caused a chlorine gas leak, killing nine people.