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Wesley McDonald, 84, a Navy admiral who commanded the 1983 invasion of Grenada for the U.S. military and who as a pilot led the first airstrike against North Vietnam in...

Last summer's bounty is a distant memory, and that means it's already time to start thinking about the 2009 farming season, particularly if you're interested in signing up for a...

U.S. efforts in Afghanistan are losing support in that country, according to a poll conducted by the Afghan Center for Socio-Economic and Opinion Research in Kabul for ABC News, the...

Milton Parker, the deli man who affixed CPM (Corned beef and Pastrami Maven) to his name on business cards and transformed midtown Manhattan's Carnegie Deli into a New York tourist...

Against a backdrop of rising unemployment, Senate Democrats struck a hard-won deal with a handful of Republican moderates to scale back spending in a massive economic stimulus bill, virtually guaranteeing...

The United Nations said that Israeli mortar fire that killed at least 43 people in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp on Jan. 6 had landed just outside a UN-run school housing...

Donald Alexander, 87, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner who successfully fought the Nixon administration's attempts to use tax audits and investigations to punish its political enemies, died of cancer Feb....

Think of them as the walking wounded: the homeowners who are upside down on their mortgages, owing much more than their home is now worth. But they're still on their...

Shahbandar Cafe still stands, a testament to the resilience of the country and its capital, Baghdad, even if so much here has changed. Rebuilt after a bombing in March 2007,...

It's easy to just toss on whatever black-and-white get-up the tux rental salesman offers, but why be one more identical penguin in a rookery of thousands? "The rules have softened,"...