Federal officials say a raid at a northeastern Iowa meat processing plant this week was the largest in U.S. history.

The Detroit City Council has taken the first step toward removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick over a scandal involving explicit text messages to his former aide.

The Senate has rejected a Republican energy plan that calls for opening an Alaska wildlife refuge and some offshore waters to oil development.

The National Association of Realtors says median home prices fell in two-thirds of the cities surveyed during the first three months of this year.

Consumers, who are battling soaring gasoline prices and a slumping economy, cut back further on their spending in April.

Florida investigators are looking for one or more arson suspects linked to several wildfires that have destroyed or damaged about 100 homes.

At a time of skyrocketing oil and gasoline prices, members of Congress are telling President Bush now is not the time to top off the tank of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

A Kentucky attorney wants Pope Benedict to testify in connection with a clergy sex-abuse lawsuit.

A mother who was taken from a Texas polygamist sect and is being held as a minor in state custody has given birth to a baby boy.

The Detroit City Council is scheduled to vote this morning on a trio of resolutions that could decide the fate of the city's scandal-plagued mayor.