WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lead BP PLC investigator is saying that eight separate failures had to occur for the company's deepwater well to unleash the largest offshore oil spill in history....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says that being mayor of Chicago isn't something that rolls around often and he's sure chief of staff Rahm Emanuel will take some time to weigh his options....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top two national security advisers in President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Wednesday denounced plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, saying it would inflame tensions and put Americans abroad at risk....

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) -- Mike Riggen is out of work. Most of his friends are out of work, too. He's raising two children on his own and they have expensive health problems....

No single election contest this fall combines the buzz and history-making potential of California's Proposition 19, which would make the state the first to legalize recreational use of marijuana....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book are "outrageous" and "aberrational" and do not represent America....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seldom visible in the Yemeni mountains, the elite U.S. commandos training the Yemen's military represent the Obama administration's quest to fight terrorism without inflaming anti-American sentiment....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- At his inaugural parade a half-century ago, President John F. Kennedy watched the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's marching unit pass him on Pennsylvania Avenue and declared it unacceptable. Not one cadet was black, he told an aide, and something ought be done about it....