The cat was lit on fire and suffered burns over its entire body. Animal control officer Dave Schlott rescued the cat, which is believed to be a stray, from the parking lot of the Darby Borough Library after someone called police.

JUNEAU, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin's office on Monday defended the governor's practice of collecting per diem from the state while living at her home in Wasilla, saying she was costing the state a lot less than her predecessor

WASHINGTON - Just days after the nation honored the 200th anniversary of his birth, 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the nation's best president.

Stepping into history, Barack Hussein Obama grasps the reins of power as America's first black president in a high-noon inauguration amid grave economic worries and high expectations.

President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office -- and perhaps his first day -- to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.

President George W. Bush will leave behind a legacy of Bushisms, the label stamped on the commander in chief's original speaking style. Some of the president's more notable malaprops and mangled statements:

The first challenge is that allergic reactions are intensely personal; no one responds in exactly the same way. This is because the symptoms are not caused by the allergen, but by the body's reaction to it. The immune system of an allergic person sees the

During his speech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Al Gore urged president-elect of the United States Barack Obama to take more measures in order to protect the environment from global warming, deeming the current actions aimed at solving this issu

t seems President Bush's dog Barney wasn't much in the mood for friendly attention during his walk outside the White House on Thursday. So when Reuters reporter Jon Decker reached down to pet the Scottish terrier, the seemingly docile dog snapped at him a

Stevens' lead was fewer than 4,000 votes with more than 40,000 absentee ballots to be counted within 10 days.