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The U.S. government has declared it's OK to eat tomatoes again, lifting its salmonella warning amid signs that the outbreak while not over may finally be slowing.

WASHINGTON - As the doors opened Thursday to an era of legal handguns here, gun rights advocates vowed another legal challenge, this time to the city's new firearms law.

The number of deadly armor-piercing roadside bombs, which the U.S. government has linked to Iran, has dropped by nearly 70% in the past three months, the U.S. military says.

China is mobilizing an anti-terrorism force of 100,000 to protect next month's Olympic Games.

WASHINGTON - A recent spate of nighttime crashes by medevac helicopters has renewed calls for widespread use of an industry-desired safety feature: night goggles.

WASHINGTON - John McCain will travel to Colorado, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania while Barack Obama goes to the Middle East and Europe.

New research shows that dieters who followed a low-carbohydrate diet lost and kept off about 12 pounds over two years, losing more than others on a Mediterranean or restricted-fat diet.

e doors opened Thursday to post-handgun ban era in Washington, with gun rights advocates vowing another legal challenge to the city's newly approved gun control law.

Nearly 18 million people buy their own health insurance, good for some but difficult for many others.

More border states are enhancing driver's licenses to give residents more convenient identification for crossings.

CINCINNATI - John McCain won plaudits if not support Wednesday for addressing some of opponent Barack Obama's strongest supporters: The NAACP.

A record number of babies were born in the USA in 2007, which some demographers say could signal an impending baby "boomlet".

WASHINGTON - The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee will try to boost his rsum next week with a five-country European and Middle East tour that threatens to turn into Obamapalooza.

WASHINGTON - Congressional job approval ratings have sunk to their lowest point in three decades, according to the latest Gallup Poll.

Some analysts call the mosque conflicts the manifestation of a growing fear that Muslims aren't assimilating, don't accept Western values and pose a threat to security.

Research suggests children born prematurely are more timid and less likely to get married and have children.

Tobacco companies deliberately changed the menthol levels in cigarettes to "lock in lifelong adult smokers."

Special Olympics founder Anne Burke thought the games would be a one-time event, but 40 years later, she keeps going.

Most couples know their marriages are happier when they make time to have fun. But often it's the fun that's first to fall by the wayside in a trying economy.

WASHINGTON - Elite fundraisers have helped collect more than half of John McCain's money, while Barack Obama has relied on top fundraisers for nearly one-fifth of his.

The worst pine beetle epidemic in 25 years is killing millions of acres of trees in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Washington.

The amount of exercise that U.S. kids get each day drops dramatically between the ages of 9 and 15, according to one of the largest studies ever done on the activity levels of children.

WASHINGTON - President Bush exuded confidence and optimism Tuesday, emulating the tone of other presidents in past times of economic trouble.

WASHINGTON - In Tuesday speeches, presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain clashed over Iraq, but stressed a need to shift attention to Afghanistan.

Ever since the Episcopal Church accepted an openly gay bishop in 2003, there have been rumbles of a fracture. But today, the Communion still stands.

WASHINGTON - President Bush sought to reassure Americans Tuesday about the strength of the nation's banking and mortgage lending institutions, even as he urged Congress to prop up troubled home mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Stock investors looking for an end to the pain they've been experiencing all year hoped a break in oil prices Tuesday might provide the one glimmer of hope.

The stock sell-off followed federal regulators' seizure late last week of IndyMac, a California mortgage lender with $32 billion in assets.