Sarah Palin's surprise announcement Friday that she's resigning as governor of Alaska did not fully explain her reasoning, leading to all kinds of speculation.

President Barack Obama is blending his domestic efforts with the July Fourth holiday in his weekly address.

The first visitors allowed into the Statue of Liberty's crown in nearly eight years are beginning their arduous climb.

Not only has Sarah Palin decided not to run for re-election as Alaska governor -- she's decided to leave office at the end of this month.

A Los Angeles city councilman is urging people who don't get tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial service to just stay home and watch it on TV.

A man charged with murdering Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable.

The television product pitchman is being remembered as a pop culture icon.

A law enforcement official says the powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home.

The U.S. Coast Guard and others are searching Lake Erie for four fishermen whose 19-foot boat set sail a day earlier.

A federal judge in Dallas says he will consider a modest request for money to pay lawyers and accountants to comb through R. Allen Stanford's personal assets to find money untainted by an alleged $7 billion fraud.

The twin sisters were found dead in their San Antonio home after the city sweltered through days of 100-degree heat.

Authorities say a transformer failure caused a Staten Island ferry to lose power and slam into a New York City pier earlier this week.

Authorities in South Carolina say they're looking for a serial killer they believe has shot four people to death within 10 miles of each other.

A big recall is under way across the country for nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Minnesota processing plant.

The chairman the House Veterans Affairs Committee is calling for a Defense Department and Marine Corps probe to see if the killing of a gay sailor at Camp Pendleton was a hate crime.