Authorities gave an "all clear" early Thursday after sweeping the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Maryland, where police shot and killed a man who was holding three hostages.
Thad Allen, the government's point man on the oil disaster, said crews are expected to begin efforts Thursday to remove the blowout preventer on BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Months after the revelation that he helped cover up for one of Ireland's most notoriously abusive priests, the country's top Catholic churchman, Cardinal Sean Brady, says he has "moved on" and will not resign.
Hurricane Earl swept toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina early Thursday as hurricane warnings and watches stretched to Delaware and parts of Massachusetts.
At least 16 migrants, including a woman, were being held for ransom by human smugglers in Tijuana, Mexico, according to a migrant who was freed, authorities said late Wednesday.
President Obama said tonight he is "cautiously hopeful" that this week's direct talks could help achieve a two-state solution to the long-running conflict in the Middle East.
Dutch authorities can detain two men held on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act for another day without charging them, a prosecution spokesman said Wednesday.
Overweight people with a history of heart disease who take the prescription weight-loss drug Meridia may be at increased risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Police in Hercules, California, were searching Wednesday for a man whose elderly father was bludgeoned to death -- possibly by a suspect in three other homicides in the same area.
A second person survived a massacre in which 72 migrants from Central and South America were killed last week in northern Mexico, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and Mexican officials said.
The decomposed body of a California doctor was found lodged in her boyfriend's chimney, several days after she had apparently attempted to get inside his home, police said.
The attorney for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks leaker, says he doesn't have any information indicating that Manning leaked tens of thousands of pages of documents on the Afghanistan war to the WikiLeaks website.
A ceremony today will mark the transfer of U.S. military command in Iraq. In an Oval Office address, President Obama declared the U.S. combat mission over.
After a major speech on Iraq, President Obama today focuses on brokering Mideast peace, with his special envoy declaring a "window of opportunity" for a deal.
Tears rolled from Fernanda Romero's eyes as the Mexican soap opera actress told jurors that she really loved Kent Ross, the pizza deliveryman she married five years ago.
In tonight's Oval Office address, President Obama will declare that "the American combat mission in Iraq has ended," according to excerpts from the White House.
National Police said Tuesday an investigation that began in February has resulted in the arrest of 14 people involved in an organization dedicated to the sexual exploitation of men, Spain's first such bust of its kind.
Women who have gene mutations that increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer can substantially reduce their chances of developing -- and dying from -- those cancers if they have their breasts or ovaries removed preemptively, according to a new study.
Crews have begun boring a rescue shaft to reach the 33 miners who have been trapped underground in Chile for more than three weeks, according to CNN Chile.
Mexican federal police officials are expected to release more details Tuesday on the operation that led to the capture of an American-born drug kingpin believed to be one of the country's most ruthless drug traffickers.
In 2003, President Bush launched a "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq. After the loss of 4,400 U.S. military personnel, the U.S. combat mission officially ended at 5 p.m. ET.
Two men arrested at Schiphol International Airport in the Netherlands are being held on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act, Dutch authorities said Tuesday.
Two days ahead of the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since 2008, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meeting with two key players in the discussion.
President Obama speaks to the nation Tuesday from the Oval Office on the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq. Here are three key questions the president could answer in his speech:
Hurricane Earl prompted a hurricane watch for part of North Carolina's coast, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm could approach the state late this week.
Insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan have cranked up their fight in recent days, with militants ambushing coalition and government targets and an air assault pounding enemy fighters, coalition authorities said on Tuesday.
Two men held in the Netherlands may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked bags, a source said.
Elias Abuelazam, suspected of stabbing 18 victims in a three-state slashing spree, is set for a pretrial hearing in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday morning.
With Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and soon the East Coast of the U.S. in its reach, Hurricane Earl prompted warnings for those areas from FEMA.
A man purported to be one of Mexico's most ruthless drug traffickers, American-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, was captured Monday following a shootout, Mexican authorities said.
Additional National Guard troops assigned to the Mexican border under President Barack Obama's border security initiative have started reporting to their posts, according to a sergeant with the Arizona National Guard.
Rodents, piles of manure, uncaged birds and flies too numerous to count were found at Iowa farms at the heart of the recall of more than a half-billion eggs, the FDA said.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order Monday giving broad new authority to impose financial sanctions on North Korean entities and individuals doing business with and for the secretive communist state.
In a rare interview, Fidel Castro gives new details about his health four years ago when emergency surgery forced him out of power, saying he didn't think he would make it and still has difficulty walking.
Julia Lynn Womack Turner, who was convicted of murder for the deaths by antifreeze poisoning of her boyfriend and husband, died in prison in Georgia, officials said.
About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, the federal police commissioner said.
A motorist fired pepper spray Saturday at a group of demonstrators and counter-protesters outside a funeral for a U.S. Marine in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.