After world leaders decried the U.N. Security Council's failure to pass a resolution on Syria, reports of violence surged once again in the besieged country.
Josh Powell and his two sons died in a blast at Powell's Washington home, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said. Utah police previously had identified Powell as the lone "person of interest" in the disappearance of his wife Susan Powell-Cox in 2009.
Newt Gingrich said Sunday he is plotting a Southern revival, while Rick Santorum and Ron Paul seek stronger showings in upcoming caucuses to slow front-runner Mitt Romney's momentum after his second straight victory in the Republican presidential race.
Forty-three people, including 19 Americans, face prosecution in an Egyptian criminal court on charges of illegal foreign funding as part of an ongoing crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, a prosecution spokesman said Sunday.
Demonstrators clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week.
Power is out and roads are blocked in Italy. In England, Heathrow Airport had to cancel half its flights. The cold snap that began in late January has killed dozens.
He may be a non-gambler, but Mitt Romney had a good night in Vegas. He left town as the night's big winner, capturing his second strong victory in a row.
A small, militant arm of Occupy Oakland took to the streets Saturday, saying it was time to "rise up" against authorities following a violent confrontation between protesters and police a week earlier that resulted in more than 400 arrests.
U.S. Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died in Kabul of apparent natural causes, officials said, making him one of the highest ranking officers to die in Afghanistan.
In the tiny New York town of LeRoy, Marge Fitzsimmons and more than a dozen others have suddenly developed uncontrollable twitching and verbal tics. She and the rest of the town are wondering why -- and if they'll ever recover.
A wave of protests broke out at Syrian embassies on several continents amid reports of more than 200 deaths in one Syrian city on Friday and before a possible U.N. Security Council vote on a response to the violent crackdown in the country. Here's a breakdown of some of the demonstrations:
Heavy rains left thousands stranded in eastern Australia on Saturday as authorities warned of more flooding and urged several communities to flee to higher ground.
In the 1,257 GOP debates we have had to sit through, poverty and the poor have rarely come up, so it was no surprise that Mitt Romney would be dismissive of them in an interview this week with CNN's Soledad O'Brien.
An Alabama robbery suspect fatally stabbed a police officer in jail, escaped in a stolen patrol car and wounded another officer before he was killed, authorities said Friday.
The man that prosecutors say is behind the stabbing deaths of four homeless men in Southern California now stands accused of the brutal killing of a mother and brother of an old friend, authorities said.
Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, who is suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, will be court martialed on charges that could lead to a sentence of life in prison, the Army said Friday in a statement.
Federal prosecutors said Friday that they are closing a criminal investigation into alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs by champion cyclist Lance Armstrong without filing charges.
If you travel to the island of Delos in Greece, you might be surprised to visit ruins dominated by statues of gigantic stone penises. Even in its ancient, mythological context, it's jarring to see such a disembodied representation of the human form. Women, of course, are perhaps a bit more accustomed than men to being reduced to a collection of body parts. Even so, it was startling to hear earlier this week that one of America's largest and wealthiest advocates of women's health appears to be fixated on breasts, rather than on the women to whom they are attached.
The bill makes clear it's illegal for lawmakers, their staffs and many executive-branch employees to trade stocks based on inside information learned on the job.
A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
A North Carolina teacher is scheduled to appear Friday in federal court after being accused in a plot to behead witnesses who testified against a would-be terrorist. A criminal complaint alleges the woman was part of a thwarted conspiracy to kill three people who testified against Hysen Sherifi, who was convicted last year in what prosecutors called a "violent jihad" plot.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump says he backs Mitt Romney as the GOP presidential nominee because "he's smart, he's sharp, he's not going to allow bad things to happen."
Even a watered-down U.N. Security Council resolution will put pressure on the Syrian government, Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Araby told CNN Thursday, ahead of renewed talks at the United Nations.
After days of heated written exchanges, Attorney General Eric Holder will face off with House Republican Darrell Issa today over Mexican-border gun-running.
As Egyptians began three days of mourning Thursday for the 79 people who died in a soccer riot in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, new violence erupted in Cairo, where protesters confronted police near the Interior Ministry headquarters.
Whenever a hugely popular and successful company goes public, many people wonder what will happen to all the newly created millionaires. What will they do now that they are financially "set for life"? Will there be "1,000 millionaires"? Will they suffer "sudden wealth syndrome"?
Boats and helicopters rushed to the scene after the MV Rabaul Queen ran into trouble off Cape Fortification in the southwestern Pacific. About 350 people were on board.
More than 70 people were killed when fans rushed the field and rioted at a soccer game in Egypt, the health ministry said. At least 47 people were arrested.
Since the summer of 2010, Julian Assange has become a pop culture fixture, a self-appointed champion of free speech, the suspect in a Swedish sex crimes investigation and a man who says he's keeping afloat a financially strapped Web operation that has mightily ticked off the U.S. government.
Tracy Morgan's mother says she struggled for years to provide the comedian with everything he needed as a child, but now that she's out of work and facing foreclosure he's refusing to help her.
As Mitt Romney dominated the Florida Republican primary Tuesday night, he also captured the bulk of the votes from Latinos in the state, with 54% of their ballots. But how did he pull that off?
The death toll from a string of recent crashes on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, Florida, amid heavy smoke from a nearby brush fire has risen to 11 with the discovery of another body, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Two passenger rail cars jumped the tracks Wednesday near Ann Arbor, Michigan, but no life-threatening injuries were reported in the accident, officials said.
The Taliban in Afghanistan depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it.