A North Carolina group and other advocates began an online campaign urging President-elect Barack Obama to overturn a new rule that clarifies when coal companies can dump mining waste in streams.

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said Wednesday that he saw no need for President Bush to pardon any of the officials involved in some of the administration’s most controversial counterterrorism policies.

Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, the first major Republican to announce a challenge to Senator Harry Reid in 2010, was indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday on four counts of fraud related to his handling of public money as state treasurer.

Laura Bush became misty-eyed while reminiscing about her eight years at the White House during the annual press preview of the holiday decorations.

The robbery, in which a 7-year-old boy threatened a classmate with a table knife, is the latest in a series troubling incidents in the Broward County, Fla. school system.

The United Automobile Workers union said it was willing to change its contracts with struggling automakers to help them secure $34 billion in government loans.

Hoping to avoid conflict that often stymies planning, officials in Starksboro, Vt., are asking Middlebury College students to help steer development.

Medications are ineffective for many hepatitis C patients who do not respond to initial drug therapy, a new study suggests.

The Environmental Protection Agency must revise its approach to assessing environmental health hazards and other risks, an expert panel is reporting.

Conservatives disaffected over the ordination of an openly gay bishop are prepared to create a competing province.