CNN/ORC International poll:  A plurality of Americans think President Barack Obama will do better during his second term. Obama's Cabinet receives mixed reviews.

The maker of a Google app thinks it's fun to make yourself look Asian by changing the shape of your eyes and wearing a Fu Manchu mustache and rice paddy hat.

Former Major League outfielder Andruw Jones has been arrested and released on battery charges following a domestic dispute between him and his wife in suburban Atlanta early Christmas morning, authorities said

William Spengler, who ambushed volunteer firefighters in upstate New York on Monday, killing two and seriously wounding two others, left a note saying he hoped to burn down his neighborhood and kill as many people as possible

Santa's reindeer have a story and a history all of their own, one tied to the oldest indigenous culture in Northern Europe and accelerated by an American entrepreneur whose principal intention was not delighting children around the world, but creating an appetite for what he hoped would become a mealtime staple as ubiquitous as beef.

President Barack Obama continued on Saturday a four-year Christmas tradition of thanking the U.S. military servicemen and women in his weekly address.

Republicans abandoned House Speaker John Boehner this week rejecting his Plan B and undermining his leadership. Is it the end for Boehner?

A federal judge signed off on BP's settlement with businesses and people hard hit by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

It was clear from House Speaker John Boehner's weekly address on Saturday that the fiscal cliff negotiations with President Barack Obama weren't going anywhere soon.

A son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, is seriously considering running for Senate if John Kerry vacates the seat to become the next Secretary of State