Associated Press

More than 100,000 homes and businesses were without electricity in the Philly suburbs early Friday. More outages occurred in western Pa., where storms caused flooding.

The rules outline how the last several weeks of closed-door depositions of witnesses by three House committees would transition into public hearings.

Pope Francis has declared that the Vatican Secret Archive isn't so secret after all.

Washington, D.C., has dangled hotel discounts tied to the Chinese Lunar New Year.

The "Just Beachy After Sandy" exhibit at Monmouth University in New Jersey is on display through early December.

Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic proposal.

Authorities ordered at least 50,000 residents to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday.

If Roland Henry had died in a different part of the country, his organs might have been recovered. And lives could have been saved.

Authorities say a house explosion in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Allentown blew off the front of the row home and led to a fire that spread to nine other homes.

Leaders of the Pittsburgh synagogue where worshippers were fatally shot last year want to rebuild and renovate the building.

Johnson & Johnson on Friday recalled a single batch of its baby powder as a precaution after government testing found trace amounts of asbestos in one bottle bought online.

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, died early Thursday.