2012 Republican campaign underway in nation's bookstores

Team Huck rolls into the bookstore like a NASCAR pit crew, red shirts adorned with the corporate logos of Mike Huckabee's website, his...

Ban lifted for green-card applicants with HIV

A stamp in Heidemarie Kremer's passport reveals her health status as HIV-positive.

Vaccine-maker tries to assure patients H1N1 doses are safe

Forget the chicken. At vaccine-maker Sanofi Pasteur, it all starts with the egg -- millions of them each week. The mini vaccine factories...

New HIV infections in decline

The estimated number of new HIV infections each year has declined about 17% since 2001, but for every five people infected, only two begin...

Obama says he'll announce Afghan plan after Thanksgiving

President Obama says he will deliver a plan to "finish the job" in Afghanistan directly to the American people after Thanksgiving, along...

These turkeys won't be gobbled up

Last month, Walter "Gator" Pelletier, chairman of the National Turkey Federation and an executive at Butterball, approached Wes Pike, his...

Census worker's death was suicide, not anti-government violence, police say

A Census Bureau worker found dead in rural Kentucky -- a death that sparked fear of anti-government violence in some quarters -- committed...

U.S. youths recruited to fight in Somali militia, authorities say

Federal authorities unsealed criminal charges Monday against eight suspects alleged to be part of a U.S. recruiting network that sent...

The universe's past, in close-up

If there were a Guinness world record for making telescope mirrors, Dean Ketelsen would likely win it. Colleagues boast that the onetime...

Sunken Canadian stern-wheeler is an underwater time capsule

Underwater archaeologists said Monday that they have found a virtual time capsule of life during Canada's Klondike Gold Rush: a sunken Yukon...