Census figures indicate Philadelphia's population has risen for the first time in 60 years.

Several young children are dead this morning after a tragic house fire in Pennsylvania.

A handful of states with billions of dollars socked away in "rainy day" funds for troubled financial times are discovering they can't use that money to offset program cuts.

Space shuttle Discovery is back on Earth from its final voyage.

NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned in the wake of comments by a fellow executive that angered conservatives and renewed calls to end federal funding for public broadcasting.

A U.S.-Canadian report says parts of the Great Lakes are suffering from excessive nutrients such as phosphorus, which promote growth of algae blooms that can damage ecosystems and human health.

Abortion rights supporters rallied at the State Capitol in Texas today to protest a controversial sonogram bill.

Cuba's Maximum Leader is also on top in cyberspace.

Prince Andrew is the latest in a long line of embarrassing royals to pose a problem for the British government.

A new study finds traffic congestion is getting thicker in the nation's busiest metropolitan areas, and the researchers say the country is headed for gridlock when employment picks up.

The University of Virginia's women's lacrosse team has retired the number worn by slain player Yeardley Love.

The last surviving great-grandson of Ulysses S. Grant has died in a southwest Missouri home brimming with artifacts from the nation's 18th president and commander of the Union forces in the Civil War.

A Pennsylvania man is behind bars Monday, accused of brutally stabbing his parents and twin brother to death with a sword.

A Colorado coroner says a 17-year-old who collapsed during a rugby match died from cardiac arrest caused by a congenital heart defect.

Police say a 10-year-old Florida girl was beaten to death by her father a few days before her body was found doused with chemicals in the back of a truck.