Tracks run downhill in skeleton racing, which seems appropriate given the direction of U.S. results since Jim Shea and Tristan Gale swept gold medals when the sport returned to the Olympic program at Salt Lake City in 2002.
As Congress gets closer to a final health care bill, many Americans want to know: What's in it for me?
Chinese police have detained an American automotive engineer for more than a year on accusations he misused trade secrets — the latest case of vague secrecy laws being used against an American in China.
Intelligence officials say five American Muslims held in Pakistan on allegations of seeking to join militant groups have been taken to a facility for terror suspects in the eastern city of Lahore.
At first glance, there was little spectacular about American biathlon results at the Turin Olympics. The United States had failed yet again to win any medals, and none of its athletes even cracked the top five.
As President Barack Obama visits China seeking to balance a seesawing relationship, Chinese-Americans embody the challenges facing the giants of East and West.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is again calling on Iran to release three Americans as a senior Iranian prosecutor said they have been accused of espionage.
A senior Iranian prosecutor says three Americans detained on the border with Iraq have been accused of espionage.
President Barack Obama is re-creating a federal panel to address concerns of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders and to work on improving their health, education and economic status.
Olympic silver medalist Meb Keflezighi will run this year's New York City Marathon.
Leaders of U.S. Muslim groups who met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad say they are "guardedly optimistic" that three American hikers held there would be released soon.
The Serbian war crimes court acquitted two former Serb policemen Tuesday of collaborating in the execution-style slaying of three Albanian-American brothers in 1999.
The families of three American hikers detained in Iran said Wednesday they were hopeful the three would be released and return home soon after Iran' president said he would ask the country's judiciary to be lenient in their case.
A U.S. official says American, French, and Mexican citizens were among the passengers aboard a hijacked plane in Mexico.
The official poverty rate for Americans 65 years and older has long been 10 percent, the lowest among age groups. The true rate could be nearly twice that high, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula that is gaining credibility for adding medical costs, geographic variations in cost of living and other factors.
The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.
Family members of three Americans who were detained in Iran a month ago called for their safe return Monday, saying the backpackers' unauthorized entry into the Middle Eastern country was a "regrettable mistake."
Three American hikers detained in Iran are "totally harmless" travelers who carefully planned a trip in Iraq but apparently accidentally ended up crossing the border, their relatives said Thursday.
Statement from the families of Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal regarding their detention in Iran:
Three American hikers detained in Iran for nearly two weeks entered the country by mistake and their families are hoping for a quick resolution that will reunite them with their children, the families said in a statement Tuesday.
The Iraqi foreign minister said Sunday that he was hopeful that three Americans detained in Iran after crossing the border from northern Iraq will be released soon
Shon Meckfessel says three of his friends being detained in Iran made a simple, regrettable mistake by crossing into that country while hiking in Iraq.
Young, adventurous and versed in the tools of an Internet age, a brave new generation of journalists is spreading out across the globe to tell the stories they care about from an often personal perspective.
Iran has arrested three Americans for illegally entering the country from neighboring Iraq and a prominent Iranian lawmaker said Tuesday that authorities were investigating whether to charge them with spying.
The White House says Iran has confirmed it has three American hikers in custody.