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If you grew up in a bilingual Hispanic household, listening to the Democratic and Republican conventions may have sounded a lot like home.

For decades, Veterans of Foreign Wars posts have played vital roles in small towns throughout America.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up near NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Public schools in Macon, Ga., and surrounding Bibb County have a lot of problems.

Just about everybody who's ever needed health care in this country has seen firsthand the problems that make our system inefficient, costly and often downright unsatisfying.

When former President Bill Clinton referred to present President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention as "cool on the outside," Clinton was underscoring the notion th

These days, Tryon Street here in Charlotte has felt a bit like a carnival.

President Obama still has a case to make for a second term, and specific people to whom he needs to make it.

Ever see one of those Dos Equis beer ads featuring the "Most Interesting Man in the World," the dapper fellow of a certain age who fascinates all who meet him?

At the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, Julian Castro will deliver the keynote speech.

Unlike what Republicans did in Tampa last week, Democrats will lay out a clear plan to get the country back on sound footing, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said during a news briefing in C

Delegates, journalists and protesters are beginning to fill the streets of Charlotte, N.C. The city has a lot riding on the Democratic National Convention which gets underway Tuesday.

Like a quietly efficient operating system whirring away in the innards of a supercomputer, a vast array of Americans — mostly unseen and unsung — spend hours and hours of every week working togethe

If you missed some of Thursday's action at the Republican National Convention, when Mitt Romney accepted his party's presidential nomination, we

For every farmer who is hurting this year during the drought, others are benefiting. Many fields in the South, Northwest and upper Midwest are producing bountiful corn crops.

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