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Residents of a southern California mountain community are unlikely to get a good night's rest as a wildfire rages about 10 miles away.

Two wealthy candidates in Florida spent a lot of their own money on campaigns.

A new study finds oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from a ruptured BP well degraded at a rate that was "much faster than anticipated" thanks to the interaction of microbes with the oil particles.

It's been nearly a week since two modern-day pirates walked into the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida, and made off with a $550,000 gold bar.

WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website that infuriated the Pentagon when it published thousands of classified military reports, said it will release a fresh set of documents Wednesday.

Family members of 9/11 victims will rally Wednesday in support of a controversial mosque and Islamic center that is scheduled to be built near New York City's ground zero.

Eggs are being recalled from yet another state -- Michigan raising the total number of states to 23.

Word that the U.S. government could soon loosen travel restrictions to Cuba may have some American travelers imagining New Year's in Havana or a spring break on the island's famed Varadero Beach.

Once a sputtering tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean, the weather system known as Danielle is back with a vengeance.

The trial resumes Wednesday morning in Manhattan for four men accused of trying to bomb New York synagogues and fire surface-to-air missiles at U.S. military planes.

A wildfire ripped through a mountain community in southern California on Tuesday, burning more than 1,000 acres and forcing the evacuation of residents living near the flames, authorities said.

WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower website, posted on the group's Twitter page on Tuesday: "WikiLeaks to release CIA paper tomorrow."

The ring awarded to Muhammad Ali when he became boxing's first three-time heavyweight champion has been returned to Ali's former wife six years after she loaned it to a friend who was dying of cancer, her lawyer said.

For more than 20 years, the bulletproof museum case housed a small piece of yesteryear: A gold bar recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon. Today, its case is broken, littered with black fingerprint dust. The treasure is gone. Stolen. The two thieves were caught in the act by the museum's security cameras.

A bill that seeks to increase prison sentences and extend parole terms in California for certain sex crimes against minors was passed in a unanimous vote by the state Senate on Tuesday.

An armed Christian organization, Right Wing Extreme, will protect a church that is planning to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of September 11, the church's pastor said on Tuesday.

The Obama administration will appeal a federal judge's decision to temporarily block federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.

Activist-actor Harry Shearer says he wants more accountability in the U.S. Army Corps post-Katrina plan. The Corps say improved walls, levees are much stronger than when Hurricane Katrina hit.

It will be a "few years" before U.S. forces in Afghanistan can turn over full responsibility for security operations to Afghan troops, the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps said Tuesday.