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A Navy shipyard worker has been charged with arson for allegedly starting a fire aboard the USS Miami that caused $400 million worth of damage.

Americans do love their bacon, but is that romance a national security issue?

The government has already lost $250 million in the 10-day-old shutdown that stems from Republican demands to cut $16.5 million in rural air service subsidies.

Despite some recent reforms, some states say the "Secure Communities" program is making their policing efforts more difficult.

A San Diego woman charged with helping a Somalia-based terror group will remain behind bars for the foreseeable future. The defense did not ask for bail because of the woman’s immigration status.

Environmentalists filed an appeal challenging Peabody Coal’s mining permit. But Arizona, the Navajo and Hopi tribes stand to lose millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs unless agreements can be reached to keep the Navajo Generating Station & Peabody Coal open.

The overwhelming conviction of Raj Rajaratnam this week didn't give federal prosecutors a breather in their campaign against insider trading. The U.S. attorney in Manhattan has 11 defendants waiting in the dock and another big trial scheduled to begin Monday.

Hospitals are partnering with pharmacies to keep discharged patients from returning too soon. Walgreens, for one, is helping hospitals to manage patients' medications after they go home.

Barely three years after the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United ruling, which liberated corporations to spend freely in elections, the justices say they'll take up another campaign-finance case - this time aiming at one of the limits on the "hard money" that goes directly to candidates and party committees.

Overnight, Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis became a national political name and a hero to abortion-rights supporters around the country.