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Teachers suspend Chicago school strike
Amid campaign turmoil, Romney tries to stay ‘focused’
White House: Libya embassy attack may have been pre-planned
Watch the full secretly taped Romney fundraising video
Most-wanted British fugitive kills two unarmed policewomen
Obama leading in key battleground state of Virginia
Tokyo running out of options as China protests heat up
Myanmar democracy icon meets with Hillary Clinton
Fat and getting fatter: U.S. obesity rates to soar by 2030
Alaskans to get $878 in yearly oil fund payout this year
Composer releases parody ‘I’m Dreaming (of a white president)’
High school sweethearts reunite, marry after 58 years
Astronaut completes first triathlon in space
Afghan militants say blast that killed 12 was revenge for film
What if Al Gore won the election?
Topless photos ruling: First battle in royal privacy war
Family of anti-Islam filmmaker joins him in hiding
New dark energy telescope snaps first cosmic photos

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:46 PM PDT

The city's teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines, ending a spiteful stalemate with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over teacher evaluations and job security, two issues at the heart of efforts to reform the nation's public schools.

Amid campaign turmoil, Romney tries to stay ‘focused’

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:55 PM PDT

If this is Mitt Romney's darkest hour in his race for the presidency, he was determined not to show it.

White House: Libya embassy attack may have been pre-planned

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 10:55 AM PDT

The White House on Tuesday explicitly left open the possibility that last week's dramatic attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens dead, was a preplanned attack. Press secretary Jay Carney suggested the assault could have been the work of an armed group looking to "take [...]

Watch the full secretly taped Romney fundraising video

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 11:37 AM PDT

The liberal Mother Jones magazine has published the full 50-minute video of Mitt Romney addressing a group of donors in Boca Raton, Florida last May.

Most-wanted British fugitive kills two unarmed policewomen

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

One of Britain's most wanted fugitives killed two unarmed policewomen on Tuesday in a gun and grenade ambush, police said, killings which are likely to reignite a long-running debate over whether British officers should carry guns.

Obama leading in key battleground state of Virginia

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 09:53 AM PDT

President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney among likely voters in Virginia by 8 percentage points, a new Washington Post poll shows.

Tokyo running out of options as China protests heat up

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 06:54 AM PDT

In China, anti-Japanese demonstrations have now spread to as many as 100 cities as tensions mount over Japan's purchase of islands it calls the Senkaku and China calls the Diaoyu.

Myanmar democracy icon meets with Hillary Clinton

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 03:06 PM PDT

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi opened a two-week tour of the United States on Tuesday with talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the latest step of a rapid normalization of U.S. ties with the former pariah state.

Fat and getting fatter: U.S. obesity rates to soar by 2030

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:52 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - If Americans stick to their eating and exercise habits, future historians will look back on the early 21st century as a golden age of svelte. Using a model of population and other trends, a new report released on Tuesday by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation projects that half of U.S. adults will be obese by 2030 unless Americans change their ways. The "F as in Fat" report highlights the current glum picture of the U.S. obesity epidemic, in which 35.7 percent of adults and 16. ...

Alaskans to get $878 in yearly oil fund payout this year

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:36 PM PDT

It's not much — $878 — but Sina Takafua isn't balking at her first annual payout from Alaska's oil savings account.

Composer releases parody ‘I’m Dreaming (of a white president)’

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 11:07 AM PDT

Randy Newman, the Oscar-winning composer best known for such hits as "Short People" and "Sail Away" and his work on the "Toy Story" films, released a new politically charged tune this week. It's definitely not suitable for Pixar. Newman's new song, "I'm Dreaming (of a White President)," is clearly a parody meant to call attention [...]

High school sweethearts reunite, marry after 58 years

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 08:15 AM PDT

You can't hurry love. Just ask Jack and Naomi Carter. Some 58 years after meeting and falling in love in high school, the two reconnected on the Internet. It was Naomi who made the first move, writing Jack a letter. Soon enough, the two began speaking on the phone. A few months later, Jack sent [...]

Astronaut completes first triathlon in space

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:53 AM PDT

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has completed the first triathlon in space, running, biking and "swimming" along with athletes in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon held in Southern California over the weekend.

Afghan militants say blast that killed 12 was revenge for film

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:58 PM PDT

Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

What if Al Gore won the election?

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 03:09 AM PDT

Yahoo!'s Jeff Greenfield asks what the world would look like of George W. Bush lost in 2000.

Topless photos ruling: First battle in royal privacy war

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Prince William and Kate Middleton's aggressive legal strategy over topless photos of Britain's likely future queen is the first salvo in what could be a decades-long tug-of-war over their family's privacy.

Family of anti-Islam filmmaker joins him in hiding

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 05:58 PM PDT

Family members of the California man who wrote and produced the controversial anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" fled their home early Monday morning to join the filmmaker in hiding.