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MIAMI (Reuters) - The Miami Heat reached their third straight Eastern Conference final after a 94-91 win over Chicago on Wedn...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disney's ABC network will become the first broadcast network to stream its shows live online thro...
How did your shows fare? We've got the list of the renewed and canceled shows below.ABC:RENEWED: Scandal, Grey's Anat...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami Heat bounced back from their series-opening loss to Chicago to thrash the Bulls 115-78 on Wednesday a...
By Doug Palmer and Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a Senate plan to ...
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas has set a date for his summer wedding.The movie mogul and his longtime girlfriend ...
(Reuters) - American Airlines said its computer systems were restored and flights had resumed after intermittent outages on T...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The daughter of President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor was indicted on Wednesday on cha...
(The Sports Xchange) - The Miami Heat's quest for history fell short, but it didn't end quietly.The Chicago Bulls sto...
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp has been sued by a woman who said her two-year-old son ate a used condom he found in the play...
(Reuters) - Spectators injured when they were hit by wreckage from a crash at a NASCAR race on Saturday face a significant ob...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of a civil rights leader and a one-time rising star in D...
(Reuters) - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sent letters to the mayors of 35 American cities on Tuesday to gauge t...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The northeastern United States braced on Friday morning for a blizzard that could drop up to three feet (n...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Shirley Chambers of Chicago had four children - three boys and a girl. Now they're all gone.Chambers ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The year 2012 was the warmest on record for the contiguous United States, beating the previous record by ...
(Reuters) - Effective teachers can be identified by observing them at work, measuring their students' progress on standar...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Star Wars" creator George Lucas will marry his longtime girlfriend Mellody Hobson, the dir...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The FBI said on Friday it captured one of two bank robbers who escaped this week from a high-rise jail in...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first major winter storm of the year hit the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, bringing a blizzard to the Pla...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - His words have been eloquent and sympathetic, as they typically are when he is the voice of a nation i...
(Reuters) - The Green Bay Packers secured their place in the National Football League playoffs with a 21-13 win over the Chic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tearful President Barack Obama expressed "overwhelming grief" on Friday for the victims of...
(Reuters) - The Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys both came back from the brink of defeat to win their National Foot...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama consumed much of Wednesday talking up their positio...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - To help decorate the White House for the Christmas season this year, President Barack Obama turned to an ...
(Reuters) - Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons kept pace with the 10-1 Houston Texans after a scrappy 24-23 win at the Tampa B...
CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online shopping has grown sharply so far this holiday shopping season after U.S. retailers ...
(Reuters) - San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick tamed the fierce Chicago defense and dominated the battle of back-up quarter...
(Reuters) - Some late game heroics from three-time all-star Kevin Durant powered the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 97-91 victory...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama had little time to savor victory on Wednesday after voters gave him a second te...
By Sam YoungmanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called it - in less than 140 characters.Around 11:15 pm EST, jus...
By Steve Holland and Matt SpetalnickWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh from a decisive re-election win, President Barack Obama retu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among v...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Why learn French when you could learn Klingon?The language created more than 30 years ago for the &qu...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won the endorsement of retired General Colin Powell, a moderate Republican, on Thu...
(Reuters) - Chicago's swarming, suffocating defense squeezed the life out of the Detroit Lions in a 13-7 victory on Monda...
(Reuters) - Jay Cutler comfortably won a battle between two unpredictable quarterbacks to lead Chicago to a 34-18 victory ove...
(Reuters) - Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker had a stroke last week when he was being released from hospital for an irregu...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Psychologists who discovered that leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller, neuroscientist...
(Reuters) - Gasoline prices in the United States dropped four-tenths of a cent over the past two weeks as crude oil prices fe...
By Mary WisniewskiCHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago teachers will vote October 2 on whether to approve a contract with the nation&#...
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - Psychologists who discovered that leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem sma...
(Reuters) - The Cincinnati Reds and Washington Nationals became the first Major League Baseball teams to clinch playoff berth...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama invoked blue-collar workers on Tuesday to contrast himself with his Republican ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago students return to school on Wednesday after a teachers' strike ended, thrilling parents who ...
(Reuters) - The New York Yankees have responded to Baltimore's extra-innings win over Tampa Bay to rejoin the Orioles on ...
(Reuters) - The Green Bay Packers made amends for a surprise opening week loss with a dominant 23-10 victory over division ri...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago students marked a week off classes on Friday as hopes of an imminent end to a teachers' strik...
(Reuters) - Starter Max Scherzer was dominant early and the Detroit batters backed him up in the latter stages as the Tigers ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - School was out in Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care after public school teachers sta...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago-area woman wanted to return an overdue copy of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to the Ch...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of a death row inmate i...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After a string of big-budget Hollywood flicks like the "Transformers" and "Indiana Jon...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republicans may have made Mitt Romney's day with the presidential nomination he long sought, b...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac swirled into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, threatening to disrupt U.S. offshore oil an...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Reality television performer Joey Kovar, who starred in MTV's "The Real World: Hollywood&quo...
(Reuters) - When Wendy Kopp, just out of Princeton, founded Teach for America in 1989, she dreamed of recruiting 500 elite co...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican Paul Ryan got a taste of the rough side of a presidential campaign on Monday when pro...
ROME/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global alarm over a potential repeat of the 2008 food crisis escalated after data showed food prices...
JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - A paramedic who testified on Thursday at the murder trial of Drew Peterson, a former police offi...
(Reuters) - Adding a bit of controversy to the menu doesn't seem to have hurt Chick-fil-A.The chain restaurant had a &quo...
By Bob BurgdorferCHICAGO (Reuters) - Alarm grew over the unrelenting Midwest drought on Tuesday, as one of the top corporate ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Silver SpongeBob SquarePants coins minted by a private company in New Zealand were among the assets seize...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Oppressive heat and a worsening drought in the Midwest pushed grain prices near or past record...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest baked in an unrelenting heat wave on Monday with fears rising of bi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not apologize to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for raising...
(Reuters) - Consumers have caught a break from the slowing economy as gasoline prices extended their steep three-month declin...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed and burst into flames in Columbus, Ohio, early on Wednes...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A blistering heat wave finally showed signs of letting up across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Sunday...
(Reuters) - Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham has been suspended for a game for "confrontational and provocati...
LEWISBURG, W.V. (Reuters) - Six days after violent storms hit the eastern United States, the state of West Virginia was strug...
(Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox traded Kevin Youkilis to the Chicago White Sox on Sunday, leaving David Ortiz as the only play...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An attorney for Miami Heat basketball star Dwyane Wade asked a judge on Tuesday to suspend his ex-wife...
Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is planning to return to Broadway as Cleopatra in a new rock and roll musical.The Oscar-winning ...
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - Use of diagnostic imaging in the United States has doubled since the mid-1990s, raisi...
(Reuters) - A backlash against high-stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teacher...
(Reuters) - More than eight months after Occupy Wall Street burst onto the global stage, decrying income inequality and coini...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track...
(Reuters) - Dwyane Wade turned on the style as the Miami Heat clinched a place in the NBA Eastern Conference finals with a 10...
CHICAGO/DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - After weeks of painting Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney as a job-slashing ...
(Reuters) - The Philadelphia 76ers ground out an 82-75 win over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday to force a deciding Game Seve...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The masseur whose $2 million sexual battery lawsuit against Hollywood actor John Travolta was dis...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. crime statistics show illegal drugs play a central role in criminal acts, providing new evidence ...
The driver of this Lamborghini Gallardoleaves a different kind of impressionwhen a failed attempt at racing ends in a Chicago...
WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois (Reuters) - Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers p...
(Reuters) - The Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics savored playoff joy on Thursday as they advanced with last-gasp wins to...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called his endorsement of same-sex marriage a "logical extension" of...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Not a single fingerprint or scrap of DNA was found to prove who murdered three family members of Oscar-wi...
LOS ANGELES, May 8 - Denver, Atlanta and Chicago refused to buckle under the threat of elimination from the NBA playoffs on T...
(Reuters) The Boston Celtics held firm while Eastern Conference rivals the Chicago Bulls collapsed as the NBA title contender...
BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death with a s...
KABUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement charting future relations wit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forty New York City cultural institutions and historic sites will compete for millions of dollars in gra...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Belief in God is highest among older people and increases with age, perhaps due to the growing realizatio...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A parade of naval vessels and square-rigged sailing ships made their way on Tuesday up the Mississipp...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Giving an AIDS-fighting drug to men who are at high risk of HIV infection would cost billions, but it mig...
(Reuters) - A misfiring Derrick Rose forced the Chicago Bulls to rely on their bench but they still managed a 96-86 overtime ...
(Reuters) - The Boston Celtics stepped up their run to the playoffs on Tuesday by upsetting Miami 115-107 for their second vi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jennifer Vaughn needed to get in shape after law school. Emily McCart wanted a break from running.Punchi...
(Reuters) - Any U.S. corporate executives who think they can use the Jobs Act's relaxed rules for public listing to cut c...
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Not since 2001, when Tiger Woods was seeking an unprecedented fourth successive major title, has...
(Reuters) - Canadian Joey Votto became just the fourth Major League Baseball player to reach a contract worth more than $...
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio (Reuters) - Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hop...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Kentucky coach John Calipari knows he has no time to rest despite winning his first national title wi...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - With his captain restrained and locked out of the cockpit, the co-pilot of JetBlue Flight 191 ...
By Ronald Grover and Sue ZeidlerLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group spear-headed by former basketball great Earvin "Magic&qu...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose 11.49 cents over the past two weeks as profi...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory over top rival Rick Santorum in Illinois on Tuesday, mo...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The owners of the New York Mets agreed to pay $162 million to settle a lawsuit by the trustee seekin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be headed for an important victory in Illinois on Tuesda...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A suspected tornado touched down in Michigan on Thursday, causing severe damage to some structures but no...
(Reuters) - Actor Michael Madsen, known for roles in films such as "Thelma & Louise," was arrested for child cruelt...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Harvey and Cora Alter decided to move away from Washington, D.C., for their retirement, friends were...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Ameri...
(Reuters) - Kobe Bryant exacted revenge for his broken nose with a game-high 33 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat Miami H...
GENEVA/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The world of science was upended last year when an experiment appeared to show one of Einstein'...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The city where gangster Al Capone once kept the mayor on his payroll ranked first in public corruption co...
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (Reuters) - Their encampments are largely gone, but the U.S. Occupy movement is far from dead, with organiz...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Birth and abortion rates among U.S. teens fell to record lows in 2008 as increased use of contraceptives ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Combing dating websites for that perfect love match can be very frustrating, and a group of U.S. psycholo...
KABUL (Reuters) - The United States appears to have taken Kabul by surprise by announcing plans to end its Afghan combat role...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Vanity Fair unveiled the cover of its annual Hollywood issue on Tuesday, featuring "fresh stars ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Instead of waiting for a child to experience reading delays, scientists now say they can identify the rea...
(Reuters) - After an unusually mild winter across much of the United States, a fast-moving snowstorm struck the Northeast fro...
CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a traditional day of service as well...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most Mormons believe their religion is not well understood by Americans and many sense hostility but a su...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass (Reuters) - Wind, rain and snow blanketed much of the Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, ushering in a more t...
Rosie O'Donnell has defended her decision to take her family fishing after a photo of the star with a dead hammerhead shark s...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A few hits on the bong now and then don't seem to have any detrimental effects on lung health, su...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The FBI performed a record number of instant background checks on would-be firearm buyers in 2011 as Amer...
(Reuters) - Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Deryk Engelland has been suspended for three games for an illegal check to the hea...
By Meredith DavisCHICAGO (Reuters) - For the past decade, cattle ranchers and meat packers watched with despair as America's ...
(Reuters) - The Vancouver Canucks took down another leading Western Conference team on Wednesday with a 4-2 victory over the ...
(Reuters) - MVP point guard Derrick Rose has agreed to a five-year contract extension with the Chicago Bulls, the National Ba...
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. scientific advisory board on Tuesday asked two scientific journals to leave ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for pol...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Judging by their "before" and "after" photographs, U.S. presidents appear to age befo...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lawyers for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Tuesday to show m...
(Reuters) - The National Basketball Association (NBA) does not yet have a ratified labor agreement but the league moved full ...
NASHVILLE (Reuters) - ESPN reporter Erin Andrews has filed a new $10 million invasion of privacy lawsuit over a 2008 inci...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is engaged to girlfriend Michelle Rounds, her spokeswoman s...
(Reuters) - For Harley-Davidson, Michael Adams is a godsend.When the 22-year-old college senior showed up for a $25 rider...
(Reuters) - The unbeaten Green Bay Packers can secure their place in the playoffs and take a step towards the 'perfect season...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Text messages about buying drugs mistakenly sent to a Nebraska state trooper led to the arrest of a 23-ye...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The woman who claimed teen singer Justin Bieber fathered a baby with her has dropped her paternity la...
MIAMI (Reuters) - John Kasay's overtime field goal gave the New Orleans Saints a 26-23 victory over the Atlanta Falcons as th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain will hold a new conference on Tuesday to confront the la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain will hold a new conference on Tuesday to confront the la...
(Reuters) - Chicago slammed the brakes on Philadelphia's recent revival with a 30-24 road win on Monday that sent the Eagles ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy grew at its fastest pace in a year in the third quarter as consumers and businesses steppe...
(Reuters) - Just when you thought filling up your car could not hurt any more, researchers may have found another reason to a...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City policeman has been docked more than a third of his vacation time after he used pepper sp...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Selena Gomez has obtained a temporary restraining order against a 46 year-old man who her attorney cl...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Officials on Friday postponed a planned clean-up of the downtown Manhattan park where anti-Wall Street p...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eight candidates took part in Tuesday's Republican presidential debate, but President Barack O...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - With their favored candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination lagging or out o...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Growing protests targeting Wall Street and U.S. economic inequality spawned heated rhetoric among pol...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America on Thursday and found unl...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators converged on New York's financial district on Wednesday, the...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Fox News Channel marks its 15th anniversary this week having changed the face of television news ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cases of illness in the U.S. listeria outbreak linked to tainted cantaloupes -- already the deadliest in ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The sentencing of convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been postponed from October 6, w...
MIAMI (Reuters) - The Buffalo Bills and the Detroit Lions both staged thrilling comebacks to extend their winning starts to t...
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is raising millions of dollars for his re-election campaign, keeping th...
(Reuters) - The Atlanta Braves rebounded from gut-wrenching defeat with a 4-0 shutout victory over the Florida Marlins on Tue...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Royal wedding" and "winning" (as in Charlie Sheen's catch-phrase) were the two m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform, announcing last month an initiative to ease d...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick is not counting on much love from the crowd when he visits his...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will double the money it spends with women-owned businesses, train women around the w...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee raised about $5.5 million in August, its worst fundraising month of...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.The first eight months of 20...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Picking top barbecue spots is a tad dangerous. The emotions connected to hometown recipes run as deeply ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Male firefighters who were exposed to toxic dust and smoke from the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trad...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A majority of U.S. Muslims are content with the nation's direction in contrast to many Americans and few ...
OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) - An Amtrak train carrying an estimated 178 passengers struck a crane in southwest Nebraska on Friday, p...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett will boost President Barack Obama's re-election bi...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Unintended pregnancies, which make up nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States, are increasing...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A convicted murderer who escaped from a California prison camp over three decades ago has been recapt...
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, perhaps seeking a break from harsh reality after a tough su...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry has at least some supporters in the Democratic stronghold of Ch...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prices for farmland in the heart of the U.S. grain belt were up 17 percent in the second quarter compared...
LOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) - A man wanted in Australia over accusations he strapped a fake bomb to the neck of a teenage girl a...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jim Thome powered his way into one of Major League Baseball's most exclusive clubs on Monday when he slu...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose for a third day on Monday as investors bought shares whose prices have been beaten down in r...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Atlanta slugger Dan Uggla saw his Major League-best 33-game hitting streak come to an end as the Braves f...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Morning talk show "The View" has a two newlyweds on its panel of co-hosts, with Joy Behar a...
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A fifth person has died from the collapse of an outdoor concert stage in heavy wind just before a we...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Wednesday on fears about the French banking sector's exposure to shaky European debt and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two American men can go ahead with a civil lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America is on the fritz.From Times Square to St. Petersburg, Florida, and Portland, Oregon, people are t...
CHICAGO (AP) - Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn intends Wednesday to abolish Illinois' death penalty more than a decade after one of...
