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Nine agents with the federal Transportation Security Administration were accidentally doused with pepper spray at Mineta San Jose international Airport today when a canister of the powerful chemical discharged, an airport official said. The incident happened...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into Myanmar on Thursday on a mission to persuade the country's ruling generals to let in a torrent of foreign assistance for cyclone victims rather than the current trickle.

The primaries nearly done, the Democrats need to make peace. Will Hillary push to be Obama's Veep pick? Hint: Bill wants her to

Travel to, from and around France is likely to be difficult today after the country's main transport unions called a 24-hour strike over planned pension reform.

The Senate plans to vote Thursday on providing $165 billion to fund Pentagon operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, under a deal that likely would doom billions of dollars in domestic programs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, praised for curbing violence in Iraq, seeks to persuade senators on Thursday he can handle the task of heading the U.S. military in the entire middle east and beyond.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House on Wednesday voted to override President George W. Bush's veto of the $289 billion farm bill that expands public nutrition programs for poor Americans but does not cut subsidies for wealthy farmers as much as Bush demanded.

Too many kangaroos, too few Tasmanian devils. Two of the country's beloved icons are challenging Australians' thinking on wildlife ...

Hillary wants the DNC to reverse decision on counting delegates from Mich., Fla.