National News

Members of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment panel plan to move forward even if they don't get to hear federal wiretaps of the governor's conversations.

Roland Burris is declaring himself legally qualified to take his seat in the Senate and says he plans to appear there to do just that.

Actor John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston are back in Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son.

Police are searching garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the body of a baby that was apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital.

The Democratic-dominated Congress convenes Tuesday to confront perhaps the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and to grapple with a hugely ambitious agenda set by President-elect Barack Obama.

Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards are expected to appear in federal court to answer to manslaughter charges in the 2007 shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.

The Commerce Department says there's a waiting list for anyone applying for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of the transition to digital television broadcasts.

Four young children were left on their own inside an Oregon home after what police think was a murder-suicide.

The massive Waterford crystal ball that descended in Times Square to ring in 2009 is being lit again and sent back up a 141-foot flagpole, where it will remain year-round.

President-elect Barack Obama has told congressional leaders he'll make his stimulus proposal available on the Internet.