The House has voted 385 to 25 to halt oil shipments into the government's emergency petroleum reserve, saying the oil ought to be put on the market to lower energy prices.

The FBI says cases of mortgage fraud jumped by more than 30 percent in the fiscal year that ended last September.

A New York City restaurant has settled a lawsuit brought against it by a lesbian who says she was ejected because a bouncer thought she was a man in the ladies' room.

Researchers say girls can help protect themselves from breast cancer later in life just by exercising.

Police officers, firefighters, and other first responders could unionize -- but they couldn't strike -- under a bill that now has preliminary Senate approval.

Texas child welfare officials say the member of a polygamist sect who gave birth last month is not a minor as they had said previously.

Federal officials say a raid at a northeastern Iowa meat processing plant this week was the largest in U.S. history.

The Detroit City Council has taken the first step toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over a scandal involving explicit text messages to his former aide.

The Senate has rejected a Republican energy plan that calls for opening an Alaska wildlife refuge and some offshore waters to oil development.

The National Association of Realtors says median home prices fell in two-thirds of the cities surveyed during the first three months of this year.