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Bill Clinton he was not. When it came to smoking pot, the teenage Barack Obama had rules. You had to embrace "total absorption" or face a penalty. When you smoked in the car, "the windows had to be rolled up." And he could horn his way in, calling out "Intercepted!" and grab the joint out [...]

Mitt Romney admits he's "haunted" by the verbal gaffes he's made during his second run for president but says he's the victim of a media environment that encourages "spontaneous" actions, yet pounces on mistakes. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, Romney acknowledges that he's forced himself to …

Hurricane Bud weakened to a Category 2 storm as it headed early Friday toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta.

The Babies May Have Been Exposed in Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Units

A penguin on the lam for more than two months in downtown Tokyo is finally back at its aquarium. The famous fugitive bird, simply known as Number 337, scaled a 13-foot wall and squeezed through a fence at Tokyo Sea Life Park in March, according to a BBC report. There have been numerous sightings of [...]

Getting a medical injection in the future should be much less painful than Kirk's yelps made it seem in the 2009 "Star Trek" film. An MIT lab has come up with a painless, controlled way of shooting medicine through the skin without using needles.

Tru and Tashia Ulman thought they were just touring a Wisconsin airport with a group of Scouts. Then something caught their eye that caused them to sprint through the concourse and jump—right into the arms of the parents they hadn't seen since October. Fox 11 was on the scene at the Outagamie County Regional Airport [. …

The Zeitgeist: Polling by ABC/Washington Post and NBC/Wall Street Journal confirmed what we have been seeing, feeling, tasting for the past couple of weeks: The race for the White House is a pure out toss-up. After a volatile GOP primary in which front-runners changed as...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Cleanup workers will soon attack a jumble of debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami that litters an Alaskan island, as residents in the state gear up to scour their shores for everything from buoys to building material that has floated across the Pacific. The cleansing project slated to start on …

On his first visit back to the Iowa state fairgrounds since the 2008 campaign, President Obama used a grassroots rally to launch sharp new attacks against rival Mitt Romney over the debt and deficit.