Georgia Rep. John Lewis said Saturday that controversial remarks he made comparing the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace were misinterpreted.

Faulty witness testimony sent the innocent to prison as prosecutors and the police built cases with flimsy corroboration, according to a newspaper investigation.

A corrosive liquid overflowed a tank at a chemical plant in western Pennsylvania, evaporating into a toxic cloud that snaked along the ground and forced about 2,500 to flee.

An independent investigator for Alaska’s State Legislature contends that Gov. Sarah Palin’s claims of fear were a facade to mask a maneuver in a family dispute.

Representative John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat and civil rights leader, said Senator John McCain was “sowing the seeds of hatred and division.”

Republican leaders said that they were worried that John McCain was heading for defeat without a clear message.

The justice system in West Virginia is broken and the United States Supreme Court should take steps to fix it, according to a pile of briefs in three cases awaiting the court’s attention.

National Park Service officials plan to imbed microchips in saguaros, Arizona’s signature plant, to protect them from thieves who sell them to landscapers.

Britain overreached imperially. The U.S. has been doing it financially.

Hundreds of firefighters were battling a fast-growing wildfire Saturday that was threatening homes and wineries in the Napa Valley.

The evangelist Billy Graham was hospitalized Saturday after tripping over one of his dogs and falling at his North Carolina home, a hospital spokeswoman said.

John McCain’s contradictory proposals are evidence to some of his independence, but others see opportunism.

As the market continued its steep slide, many Americans say they are sensing losses beyond the short-term hits to their portfolios.

The new approach, which would have the government inject capital directly into banks, is one that administration officials had publicly opposed.

Sen. John McCain called a statement by a Georgia congressman Saturday, which compared the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace, "a brazen and baseless attack."

States are moving to rein in programs that reimburse film producers for all manner of expenditures from the salaries of stars to meals for the crew.

Thanks to allies in Congress, a midlevel worker extracted nearly $350 million for items the Pentagon did not want.

in his 27 years as dean of the National Cathedral in Washington, Dean Sayre raised his sonorous voice against McCarthyism, segregation, poverty and the Vietnam War.

The race for the White House is being waged in the final weeks in American living rooms through a blitz of negative campaign commercials.

A Japanese businessman charged with plotting the murder of his wife in Los Angeles 27 years ago hanged himself with his shirt in a jail cell hours after arriving to face trial.