National/World

Tomorrow is the day about two million Americans get a raise.

The Microsoft founder and New York Mayor are pouring $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.

Thousands of evening commuters and rail travelers in the Northeast are on their way to their destinations after train service was shut down for more than an hour.

It's weakening rapidly, but still packing a wallop.

The Air Force says all six crew members aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed Monday off Guam were killed.

Texas authorities say they're searching for five indicted followers of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

The medical examiner in Missouri's St. Louis County has identified charred remains found at a burned house where a firefighter was killed as the body of the homeowner.

Police say a Massachusetts woman facing foreclosure fatally shot herself and left a suicide note telling her husband and son to use life insurance money to pay for the home.

The legislation aims to help strapped homeowners facing foreclosure and prevent troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from collapsing.

The Pentagon press secretary says it will be left to the next administration to decide on any sizable troop increase for Afghanistan.