As a 15-year-old, Jefferson Thomas was one of nine African-American students who braved mobs to integrate an all-white school. Thomas died Sunday of cancer at age 67.

A tropical depression in southwestern Gulf of Mexico strengthened into a tropical storm Monday morning, forecasters said.

President Obama is stepping up his efforts to revive the economy. In a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, he'll outline a plan to spend more on roads, railways and runways.

Rescue officials reported Monday they had to temporarily stop one of two drilling operations to reach 33 men trapped for more than a month inside a Chilean mine.

Metropolitan police in London, England, appealed Monday for further information about last month's death of a man who worked for a British intelligence agency and whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom.

A former cellist with the rock group Electric Light Orchestra was killed in southwestern England on Monday in a car crash involving a large bale of hay, local police said.

Boston police have arrested three suspects who they say stabbed a Domino's pizza delivery man and drove off in his car.

With November's midterm elections less than two months away, a new national poll indicates that the Republicans' advantage over the Democrats in the battle for Congress is on the rise.

A third migrant survived a massacre that left 72 dead in a Mexican border state, and could play a key role in authorities' investigation of the crime, El Salvador's president said.

A string of bombings and shootings in Iraq has left at least one Iraqi military officer and five civilians dead and at least 21 people wounded, authorities said today.