Elisha Maldonado

The United States is unlikely to get its AAA rating back any time soon, and if Washington fails to follow through on spending cuts, the nation faces an even further downgrade, two Standard & Poor's execs said Monday.

Australian Nancy Wake, who as a spy became one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen for her role in the French resistance during World War II, has died in London, officials said Monday. She was 98.

Archaeologists say artifacts discovered in an ancient drainage tunnel under Jerusalem are left over from war 2,000 years ago.

It looks like the U.S. Government isn't the only one taking a ratings hit. Standard & Poor's cut Freddie Mac's and Fannie Mae's long-term ratings one notch on Monday.

After considering a resignation once a debt deal was reached, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner confirmed on Sunday that he will remain at his post at President Barack Obama's request, making him Obama's longest-serving economic adviser after the first-ever U.S. credit downgrade.

Victoria Beckham tweeted this precious picture of baby Harper in dad David Beckham's arms Sunday morning.

Female cognitive ability can limit how melodious or handsome males become over evolutionary time, biologists from the University of Texas at Austin, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have observed.

The U.S. Navy SEALs and other troops whose helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan Saturday had rushed to the mountainous area to help a U.S. Army Ranger unit that was under fire from insurgents, two U.S. officials said Sunday.

Nearly two dozen members of SEAL Team 6 were among 30 American troops killed Saturday when the Taliban shot down their helicopter during an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to the United States and Afghan troops killed when Taliban insurgents shot down their helicopter in Afghanistan on Saturday.

The Arctic will be practically ice-free during the summer within three decades, according to the top U.S. ice observer. But, he is quick to add, with climate change, some good comes with the bad.

A man hiking by himself in in Montana's Glacier National Park kept hiking the trail until he found help after he had been attacked by a grizzly bear, the National Park Service said.

Marking the deadliest incident in the decade-long war, a military helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan Saturday night, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops -- most of whom were Navy SEALS from "Team Six" - the unit that carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, officials said.

Ending perhaps one of the strangest trials in recent years, which could go down in history as another example of why one does not represent himself in court, a Texas jury on Thursday found the leader of the largest polygamous religious sect in the U.S. guilty of two counts of sexual assault on a child.

As heavy rain has flooded Charlotte streets and roads, firefighters have had to rescue stranded motorists and evacuate a few neighborhoods.

Nearly 15 percent of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

A professor at Chestnut Hill College dove over a second-floor railing inside a building on campus during his class, killing him, police say.

Speaking Friday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" talk show, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D.-Mass., said that the media has the duty to not give equal time or acceptance to the Tea Party's views.

Despite having not yet announced his candidacy, many are seemingly already considering Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the man with the best chance to defeat President Barack Obama in 2012.

Warner Bros. has released a first look of Henry Cavill donning his Superman gear in Zack Snyder's upcoming reboot, "Man of Steel."

In the largest one-day hike in history, U.S. Government debt shot up to $239 billion.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is already known for her keen fashion sense, and her mastery of recycling looks from her own closet, but when it comes to hats, well, it seems the new royal is willing to spend a pretty penny.

Once upon a time, a second moon orbited the Earth, but after a slow-motion collision with its bigger sister, our planet was left with one, scientists say. Astronomers believe that this collision, which lasted several hours, can explain the moon's symmetry.

Instead of building model cars or doing crossword puzzles as a personal hobby, a Swedish man trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as leisure activity.

A homeless man was the cause of a heightened security alert in Washington D.C., Wednesday after jumping the White House fence, though he was immediately apprehended by gun-pointing Secret Service agents.

Seventy-two people have been charged by federal law enforcement officials for their alleged involvement in an online child pornography ring.

A teenage girl at the center of a major bomb scare in Sydney, Australia is holding up well and is being reassured by trained officers, police say.

Police are trying to defuse a bomb strapped to an 18-year-old girl in a multimillion-dollar mansion at Burrawong Avenue in Sydney, Australia.

When President George W. Bush learned that two planes had barreled into the World Trade Center buildings on Sept. 11, 2001, he was sitting in front of a group of children reading aloud. So as to not cause alarm, he remained calm and stoic. And for it, he received much flak.