Leaders of the world’s richest countries banded together to press Germany to back more pro-growth policies to halt the deepening debt crisis in Europe, as President Obama for the first time gained widespread support for that strategy.

I'll Have Another overtook Bodemeister, blazing down the stretch to win the Preakness in the final strides Saturday and keep alive his hopes of winning the Triple Crown.

Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday after China allowed him to leave a hospital in Beijing, NBC News reported.

Three anti-NATO protesters planned to attack four Chicago police stations, the local campaign headquarters for President Barack Obama and the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, prosecutors alleged.

Forget a president's first 100 days. Mitt Romney's first television ad of the general election, "Day One," comes as close as anything in describing the most urgent priorities of a President Romney upon taking office. What do we know about those proposals?

First Read: There were several big stories from the campaign trail this week and lessons to learn from all of them.

It has appeared behind Romney on stage more often than several of his sons, standing stiff and silent. It is Romney's enormous electronic debt clock.

A usually mundane Congressional proceeding drifted into testy turf when a prominent Republican colleague accused a Democratic colleague of drunkenness.

Using unlimited donations and spending money on TV ads in races across the country, Super PACS played a prominent role in helping the Republicans win control of the House in 2010. This year Democrats, who initially condemned Super PACs, are joining the fray with their own.

Mitt Romney convened a rare press conference Thursday to explicitly distance himself from a controversial, racially-charged ad campaign reportedly planned by a Republican super PAC.

A woman says a Facebook poem she posted about bullying has brought pleas for forgiveness from former classmates who tormented her at a California high school 25 years ago.

An apparently homeless man looks through a trashcan for food. Many people in big cities like London would simply walk on by. But not Lewis Dediara.

Tuscon's Pima Community College will set a record with its largest graduating class, handing out 3,624 certificates.  But among those students one in particular stands out.

An Arabian show horse named William swam out to sea after being spooked Tuesday evening, triggering an elaborate rescue effort.

The Welcome Home Veterans Living Military Museum celebrated the grand opening of its new, permanent home in Mooresville Thursday morning.

"I love him all the way to the universe and back," a boy says after his 12-year-old brother risks his life to rescue his younger siblings from a fire near Pensacola, Fla.