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Indiana holds its Democratic primary on May 6. Both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have stressed the state's importance as a potential "tie-breaker" in the Democratic race. Known as the "crossroads of America," Indiana seems tailor-made for a vital political role.

The Labor Department has said the unemployment rate for August was a five-year high of 6.1 percent. Employers cut early 84,000 jobs during the month. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama both have plans they say will create more jobs.

Americans want alternatives to traffic jams and high gas prices. Portland, Oregon, thinks it has found one: convincing residents to commute by bike. Cycling has doubled since 2001. And the city hopes this is just the beginning.

Nearly 6,000 workers die on the job in the United States every year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that Latino workers had a fatality rate that was 21 percent higher than all workers in 2006.

The last NASA space shuttle mission into space has ended. Atlantis and its four crew members arrived at the Kennedy Space Center just before 6 a.m. ET.

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump say they would spend more to rebuild the country's aging infrastructure. The problem is there may not be enough people with the right skills to fill those jobs.

President Trump's proposed budget released Tuesday rests on a key assumption: The economy will grow much faster than it has in recent years — and at a more robust pace than most analysts predict.

Eliska and Welmon Barriere are among the roughly 6 million blacks who migrated north during the 20th century. They left New Orleans in 1962 for Milwaukee, where they raised a family. But they moved to Georgia in the 1990s, part of a trend of blacks going back to the South.

Three shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for kids 6 months to under 5 prompted a strong immune response. Preliminary data suggests the vaccine is effective and safe.

A Texas law that effectively bans abortion after about 6 weeks is allowed to stand, the U.S. military is now out of Afghanistan after 20 years, and the president's approval numbers take a hit.