The most abundant sources of energy currently being used worldwide are not going away anytime soon.

Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexual.

Young adults between 18 and 29 are anxious about being able to pay for their educational, housing and health care needs.

Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.

The Northern Ireland Assembly is braced for a tense stand-off after the Ulster Unionist Party declared it will use a crunch vote to reject the deal brokered to stabilise the power-sharing government.

After fighting for nearly a decade to win one the largest military contracts in U.S. history, Northrop Grumman Corp.

New York Rep. Eric Massa is blaming his resignation on a conspiracy by House Democratic leaders to force him out before a crucial vote on health care.

Ohio has postponed the execution of an inmate who they say overdosed on pills in his prison cell.

UPFRONT asks U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin if the House of Representatives will pass a health care reform bill.

In this photo taken March 4, 2010, a man waits for a train at the Buena Park Metrolink station in Buena Park, Calif.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan early Monday as coalition forces continue to restore order in the town of Marjah, the first major test of the U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency strategy since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 new American troops to blunt the Taliban's momentum.

Cablevision subscribers were scrambling Sunday to hook up antennas or find live TV on the Internet in order to watch the Academy Awards after ABC's parent company Walt Disney Co.

Obama notes that Iraqi security forces showed growing maturity in keeping violence from reaching much higher levels.

A skeptical Palestinian leadership agreed Sunday to begin U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel, effectively ending a 14-month breakdown in communications between the two sides.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says the GOP should focus on issues like jobs and education and not on scare tactics.

Alabama's Legislative Black Caucus on Saturday called on U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to cancel a planned appearance at Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery.

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene after a car bomb exploded. BAGHDAD -- Billed as a key test of Iraq 's nascent democracy, Iraqis fear Sunday's parliamentary election will lead to a protracted period of uncertainty as the winners and losers try to cobble together a new government - even as American forces prepare to go home.

Before Gov. Rick Perry can parlay his victory in the statea TMs GOP gubernatorial primary into something bigger, such as a spot on the 2012 Republican presidential ticket, perhaps, he'll have to win a record-setting, third full four-year term.

A pressing legal reality for the "don't ask, don't tell" standard for gays serving in the military is that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already struck down the way it's practiced in much of the Western United States.

Facing a tough political environment, President Barack Obama on Saturday turned up the heat for the health care overhaul that has been his top priority for a year yet has not been passed by Congress.