Abbie Fentress Swanson

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added parts of the Raritan Bay in New Jersey to its Superfund National Priorities List.

Robert Rines, the 87-year-old patent holder of radar and composer of more than 10 Broadway and off-Broadway scores, died Sunday.

Nicolas Sarkozy is sending a special mission to North Korea to talk about nuclear arms.

There's no rest for the weary in the contentious New Jersey gubernatorial race.

Hamid Karzai has pledged to banish corruption and create an inclusive government in his second term.

The Philadelphia Phillies are still in the World Series after an 8-6 victory over the New York Yankees Monday night.

New York City celebrates the Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, October 30 through November 2.

A Navy assault ship built with steel from the fallen World Trade Center made its inaugural visit to New York City and gave a 21-gun salute at Ground Zero.

President Hamid Karzai has been declared the victor in Afghanistan's presidential election.

David Sanger, of The New York Times, talks about Karzai's victory in Afghanistan, Clinton's remarks in Pakistan and the skirmish between the White House and Fox News.

Afghanistan's former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has dropped out of this Saturday's run-off election.

The New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 last night, giving them a 3-1 series lead. If they win Game 5 tonight in Philadephia, they will win the World Series.

Meb Keflezighi, an Eritrean-American, won the New York City Marathon Sunday.

The Taliban is suspected in a suicide bombing that exploded in a Rawalpindi car park beside a bank Monday.

Consumer spending for September is down by the largest amount in nine months.

The Secretary of State leaves Pakistan Friday and heads to Abu Dhabi to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The photographer best known for his black-and-white depictions of Harlem died in Manhattan Tuesday.

The President holds his seventh White House meeting on troop levels in Afghanistan Friday.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the country's interim leader Roberto Micheletti will sign a power-sharing deal Friday.

Nine people are thought to be missing after a Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine Corps helicopter.