Poll: Public skeptical of war escalation

President Obama's marks for handling of the Afghan war  jump double digits, but there's no change in the resistance to an escalation, the latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows.

Taliban to release tape of captured U.S. soldier

Fed leaves key interest rate unchanged

The Federal Reserve has decided to hold interest rates at a record low and pledged to keep them there for an "extended period" to keep the recovery going and drive down double-digit unemployment.

Stocks end mixed after Fed announcement

Aces dealt: Halladay, Lee join new teams

  The Philadelphia Phillies now have Roy Halladay and the Seattle Mariners have Cliff Lee. The Cy Young winners switched teams Wednesday when a complicated, four-team trade was completed.

Opinion: Tiger will never recover from scandal

Swift, Boyle among People’s ‘most intriguing’

Tiger Woods, Kanye West, Chris Brown on magazine’s fallen males list.

Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal reportedly split

Looks buy happiness, but only in the city

When it comes to country girls, looks don’t count so much in terms of overall life satisfaction and happiness, according to a new study in the journal Personal Relationships.

  NYT: Smoking rate drops in Mass., drawing attention

Cosmic Log: Alien ‘water world’ found

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Astronomers say they have detected a planet just six and a half times as massive as Earth — at a distance so close its atmosphere could be studied, and with a density so low it's almost certain to have water.

10 best PlayStation 3 games of 2009

CityCenter’s centerpiece opens in Las Vegas

Casino executives prepared to open the newest and most expensive joint on the Las Vegas Strip on Wednesday night — a 4,000 room resort at the heart of the $8.5 billion CityCenter complex.

AAA says holiday travel to rise this year