President Barack Obama is urging global leaders to take “bold, comprehensive and coordinated steps” to help lift the economy out of its stifling recession.

The top bowler for the Special Olympics says he looks forward to meeting President Barack Obama in an alley.

The White House has again rejected South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s bid to use federal stimulus cash to pay down state debt.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says banking supervisors must pay “close attention” to compensation practices as they examine the soundness of financial institutions.

The octuplets were born Jan. 26 in Southern California to
33-year-old Nadya Suleman, a divorced, unemployed mother who
already had six children.

Bernard Madoff has pleaded guilty to charges that he carried out an epic fraud that robbed investors worldwide of billions of dollars.

Madoff is expected to plead guilty to eleven felonies, carrying
prison terms of up to 150 years.

Bernard Madoff’s lawyers say he will plead guilty later this week to 11 counts including money laundering, perjury and securities, mail and wire fraud.

Capacity to be reduced 10%

Obama lifts ban on embryonic stem cell research

A gunman opened fire at the church outside of St. Louis killing the reverend Fred Winters.

Detroit automakers will be tested today as members of the Obama administration’s auto task force look into business at Chrysler and GM.

More than a hundred health care policy makers filled the East room of the White House to brainstorm with the president’s health care team.

The incident happened last month before the Grammys causing the pair to
suddenly cancel a performance.

It allows terminally-ill patients with six months or less to live the option of taking a lethal dose of medicine.

Prop 8 is the voter-approved initiative changes California’s constitution to define “marriage” as only between a man and woman.

It took surgeons at Houston Hospital about two and half hours to replace her aortic valve Wednesday.

A charter captain says the search for
two NFL players and another man off Florida’s Gulf Coast has become
a subdued effort to find their remains.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Someone picked up a bit more than a full tank at a central New Jersey gas station.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - An asteroid about the size of one that

blasted Siberia a century ago just buzzed by Earth.

Officials say 50 people were killed in the crash including Lorin Maurer who’s parents live in Spartanburg County

The indictment charges Kody Brittingham threatened to shoot the then president-elect Obama.

Money for cancer research money would increase under President Barack Obama’s proposed budget, a down payment on his pledge to double research funding over five years.

Compare Obama’s speech to the facts.

Authorities say evidence found in the woods where Caylee Anthony’s remains were discovered matches items from the home where she lived.

Foreign trade is expected to be on the menu.

The funds will be used for the rehabilitation of a runway and taxiway.

Santonio Holmes was named the game’s MVP.

The former Ohio secretary of state also threw his “fullest support” behind rival Michael Steele. He’s the former Maryland lieutenant governor who has momentum heading into the fifth round of balloting.

Democratic congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand is the New York governor’s pick to fill Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s vacate Senate seat, an aide says.