Jeffrey Zarrillo and his partner Paul Katami and Sandy Stier and her partner Kristin Perry enter the federal courthouse in San Francisco, California in this July 2, 2009 file photo.

Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama.

Blizzard-like storm slams U.S. East Coast A group of men help push a motorist through the street during a snow storm in Washington, Saturday, Dec.

The Senate cleared its year-end plate of some must-do work Saturday as it passed a critical budget bill that blends money for the Pentagon with additional help for the jobless.

A historic U.N. climate conference ended Saturday with only a nonbinding "Copenhagen Accord" to show for two weeks of debate and frustration.

A snowstorm hit the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States states at the weekend, crippling travel across the region and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power.

A fifth-generation Boy Scout, 11-year-old Brad Corr is steeped in all the lore and tradition: the Scout Oath and Scout Law, campcraft and community service, the daily doing of good deeds.

President Barack Obama says, "for the first time, there is a clear majority in the Senate that's willing to stand up to the insurance lobby and embrace lasting health insurance reforms."

After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil were beaten to death by their jailers.

The historic U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen ended Saturday after a 31-hour negotiating marathon, narrowly avoiding collapse by accepting a compromise that gives billions to poor nations to deal with global warming but does not require the world's major polluters

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It's a bittersweet end for the organization David Walsh started in1996. He takes pride in how "a little nonprofit in Minneapolis"was able to influence the whole video game industry.

Great Lakes shipping is winding down a turbulent season that saw freighters making fewer trips to transport fewer commodities.

David Walsh said when he was assembling hisfirst report card on video game violence 13 years ago, childrenwere attacking on-screen monsters or aliens with imaginary chainsaws and guns.

A teenage Dutch sailor who made headlines when she went to court to fight for the right to sail solo around the world has gone missing, police said Sunday.

Islamic militants fired mortars into Mogadishu's police compound as the force was celebrating its 66th anniversary Sunday, sparking a battle that killed at least 12 civilians and a police officer, officials said.

The Philippines' most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated as a precaution.

A slow-moving storm that blanketed swaths of the mid-Atlantic with nearly 2 feet of snow reached southern New England on Sunday, continuing its assault on the East Coast after causing at least five deaths, crippling travel and leaving empty stores

Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators marched through the streets of the central Taiwanese city of Taichung on Sunday, ahead of the arrival of a senior Chinese envoy for trade talks that some on the island fear could eventually lead