U.S. lawmakers and the Bush administration have reached a tentative agreement on a plan to bailout endangered financial institutions. Key House and Senate negotiators, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made the announcement early Sunday after around-the-clock negotiations. Looking...

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts emerged from their capsule Sunday upon a jubilant return to Earth after successfully completing the country's first-ever spacewalk mission. State broadcaster CCTV showed their Shenzhou 7 spaceship landing under clear skies in the grasslands...

LOS ANGELES - Earthquake scientists want to borrow your laptop or maybe a little space in your basement or garage. Researchers don't have enough high-tech monitoring stations to track every instance of ground shaking, so they are enlisting help from...

Well, duh. But when Clay Aiken actually told People magazine that he was indeed gay, searches for the pop star shot skyward. What made Aiken finally come out? His son inspired the assertion: "I cannot raise a child to lie...