Before shutting down for campaigns, Congress on Thursday passed a measure to fund the government another 2 months. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said all 100 senators want to "get back to their states."
The execution of a convicted rapist-murderer in California has been called off two days before he was to receive a lethal injection, Department of Corrections officials said.
A verbal altercation between four U.S. soldiers in Iraq preceded the fatal shooting of two and wounding of a third, a U.S. military official said Wednesday.
Prosecutors say Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American suspect in the failed Times Square bombing case, carefully selected his location as a highly populated target, and intended to strike again if he wasn't caught the first time.
Key provisions of Canada's prostitution law were struck down Tuesday by an Ontario judge who said they endangered the people they were meant to protect.
Four soldiers from the Fort Hood Army base in Texas -- all decorated veterans -- died in the past week after apparent suicides, a Fort Hood spokesman said.