A new poll shows Minnesota is moving more solidly into Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's column while also confirming that the state's U.S. Senate race is a toss-up with three weeks to go.

Results of a Quinnipiac University poll which asked likely voters in Minnesota for their views on the presidential race.

The administration will spend $250 billion this year to purchase stock in banks and take a number of other steps to combat the global credit crisis.

Powerful gusts stoked three major wildfires in Southern California early Tuesday that have charred nearly 12,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate neighborhoods in suburban Los Angeles and northern San Diego County.

Rain stretched from the Ohio Valley down to the southern Plains early Tuesday, while most of the East Coast was to stay mild. A storm took aim at the Pacific Northwest.

The U.S. Navy says Somali pirates have not followed through with their threat to blow up an arms-laden Ukrainian ship they hijacked.

A Russian lawmaker said Tuesday that rising hockey star Alexei Cherepanov, a first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers, may have died due to negligence on the part of paramedics who responded to an emergency call.

A Russian Soyuz craft carrying an American computer game designer and two crewmates docked with the international space station Tuesday.

After a rant about the overabundance of Victorian B&Bs, one man's search turns up some inns that don't feel like you're staying with Grandma. Not that he has anything against grandmas.

Ten Thousand Things upsets the natural order with a fun, innovative approach to "Twelfth Night."