Barack Obama is considering a visit to Iraq this summer, his first since becoming a presidential candidate. The Democrat, who has been criticized by Republican rival John McCain for not visiting Iraq since 2006, revealed his plans to The New
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Thursday morning that his view on the Iraq war changed in the years since it began, and that he "trusted the president's foreign policy team" when making the case for war.
Opposition surfaced Thursday against Gov. David Paterson's directive tostate agencies to recognize gay marriages legally performed in otherstates and countries.
A top Clinton supporter in Michigan said Thursday the state Democratic Party's plan to split the convention delegates between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama is "fatally flawed."
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, is in excellent health, according to a report released today by his doctor. CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports.
Barack Obama's doctor said Thursday the presidential candidate was in excellent health at the time of his last checkup 16 months ago, but he has a family history of cancer and a big, obvious risk — a smoking habit that
After four years of study at one of the nation's top colleges, some Northwestern University graduates feel they should be sent on their way by man higher in stature than Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas have scrapped verdicts against drugmaker Merck stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have taught a pair of monkeys how to feed themselves with the aid of a robotic arm. What's more amazing, the arm is controlled by the monkeys' brainpower.
It's a medical procedure thousands of patients have every year, but magnetic resonance imaging, or MRIs, are now the focus of a growing number of lawsuits.
Giving birth is one of the most beautiful and painful experiences of awoman's life. Now there is a technique called hypnobirthing, thatpurports to vastly reduce or even eliminate labor pains without drugsby simply harnessing the power of the mind.
State election officials say a proposed state constitutional amendmentdefining a fertilized human egg as a person has enough petitionsignatures to get on the November ballot.
Some service on the CTA Green Line will get moving again this morning, but service will not be fully back to normal until the evening rush. CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports.
Four people were injured, three seriously enough to be hospitalized, when a taxi lost control and hit two pedestrians near Union Station downtown this morning.
As a jury deliberates on whether he is guilty of fraud and corruption, a judge in Las Vegas has issued a warrant for political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, according to a published report.
In what could be the ultimate cost-cutting move by airlines buffeted bysky-high fuel prices, US Airways Group says it will eliminate freesnacks in coach class on all its domestic flights starting June 1.
