A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband’s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.

World stock markets sagged again Wednesday as a barrage of weak corporate earnings stoked fears that the government’s financial intervention won’t keep global economies out of recession.

Want to lose weight? Try eating. That’s one of the strategies being developed by scientists experimenting with foods that trick the body into feeling full.

Republican John McCain on Wednesday implored New Hampshire voters “to come out one more time” on his behalf, as the two-time primary winner tried to stave off a general election loss with sharp criticism of Barack Obama’s tax and spending plans.

Democrat Barack Obama is bouncing from one patch of Republican turf to another this week.

Government wants to confiscate group’s name and trademark

Opening arguments in Fort Dix terrorism plot begin today

Bomb hurts four at small-town law firm.

Wild gyrations on Wall Street, a loss of confidence in the U.S. banking system and worries the economy will be weak for some time are raising Americans’ anxiety level.

The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.

Fresh off their energetic debate, Republican John McCain looks to hold onto traditionally GOP states while Democrat Barack Obama edges into that turf and pours money into TV ads less than three weeks before Election Day.

The mother of a missing 3-year-old Florida girl went before a judge Wednesday to hear charges she killed her daughter, a day after she was indicted following four months of searches that yielded no sign of the child.

Powerful winds stoked three major wildfires on Tuesday morning after destroying dozens of homes, forcing thousands to flee and killing two people.

Two wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds threatened neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, killing one person, destroying several dozen mobile homes and forcing evacuations.

Intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California Monday morning and whipped up a 3,700-acre wildfire, burning mobile homes and industrial buildings and forcing the evacuation of eight patients from a nearby hospital.

Matthew Shepard’s mother still mourns lost opportunities to battle hate crimes and promote a greater tolerance of gays in the 10 years since her 21-year-old son was beaten, tied to a wooden fence and left for dead in a frigid Wyoming pasture.

President Bush said Friday that the government’s financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in.

Stock prices in Asia and Europe careened lower Friday, extending a stampede of selling that began in on Wall Street a day earlier, deepening a global financial crisis that has defied all efforts to stop it.

Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor

Stocks plunged in the final minutes of trading Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down more than 600 points to their lowest level in five years after a major credit ratings agency said it was considering cutting its rating on General Motors Corp. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell more than 6 percent.

A suspected U.S. missile strike targeted two areas in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghanistan border on Thursday, killing at least nine people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions.

Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.

The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker charged with hacking the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has pleaded not guilty.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged southeastern European leaders to shift their military efforts from Iraq to Afghanistan, where their forces are more urgently needed.

The Federal Reserve and six other major central banks from around the world slashed interest rates Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a mushrooming financial crisis from becoming a global economic meltdown.

John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama “that one,“ Obama mocked McCain’s “Straight Talk Express,“ and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday.

As stocks plummeted for the second straight day Tuesday despite a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, several Charlottesville-area congressional candidates said much more must be done to bolster the struggling economy.

The winner of Tuesday night’s presidential debate is the candidate who can best use his performance to boost his standing with voters. For Republican John McCain, that means slowing if not reversing Democrat Barack Obama’s edge in national and swing-state polls.

Executives at American International Group Inc. hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released Tuesday by a congressional panel examining the chain of events that forced the government to bail out the conglomerate.