Son of slain rabbi heads to Israel

An Israeli Air Force jet left India for Israel Monday carrying the 2-year-old orphan of a rabbi and his wife who were slain in the Mumbai Jewish center attack.

Winter weather slows travel in U.S.

Travelers moving through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport are dealing with the aftermath of the region's first snowstorm of the season.

Obama names Clinton to top role

President-elect Barack Obama announced former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his choice for secretary of state Monday and also said he would keep Robert Gates as defense minister.

Answer Desk: Explaining the oil bust
With oil prices at a third of peak levels,  OPEC producers are having little luck trying to prop them back up. So was the price spike driven by greedy speculators after all? Answer Desk.

Oklahoma jumps Texas into No. 2 in BCS

Sooners in driver's seat for national title game despite having lost to 'Horns

Shoppers in trampling death sought

Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges.

Military to detail U.S. security plan

The U.S. military expects to field 20,000 uniformed troops inside the country by 2011, to respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, Pentagon officials say.

NYT: A team for a foreign policy shift

While Obama's hand-picked foreign policy team tend to be more hawkish than the new president, they have all embraced a sweeping shift of priorities in the national security arena.

NATO convoy struck in Pakistan

Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked trucks ferrying supplies to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Monday, killing two people and destroying a dozen vehicles, witnesses and police said.