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The Federal Reserve is keeping U.S. interest rates at record lows in the face of threats from a weak global economy.

Since the beginning of the U-S led war in Iraq, America's relationship with most of its European allies--excluding England---has been strained. France was…

It is the first such release in five months from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the first to be approved by Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

Also: Minnesota officials won't release videos of a fatal police shooting of a black man; U.N. Secretary General Ban won't visit North Korea; and a Hawaiian court halts a controversial telescope.

The highest ranking Democrat in Ohio is calling for a new approach in the conversation about the federal health care law. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown...

Violence and natural disasters are fueling the surge in the number of people displaced, the U.N. says in a new report.

President Bush orders the public release of a summary of a classified report by U.S. intelligence agencies on America's vulnerability to terrorist attack -- and how the war in Iraq affects the effort to fight terrorism. Descriptions of the National Intelligence Estimate surfaced in newspapers over the weekend.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was more involved than he had previously acknowledged in the decision to dismiss eight U.S. attorneys in 2006, according to his former chief of staff. Kyle Sampson faced hours of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

President Bush invites 15 countries to the White House to talk about ways to slow global warming. But he has been criticized for moving too slowly to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. There's skepticism that the meeting will bring real progress.

Also: E.U. leaders hold their first meeting without Britain, post Brexit; more West Virginia counties are declared federal flooding disaster areas; and Toyota recalls vehicles for potential defects.