US citizen David Headley has pleaded guilty to finding the targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of...

Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski have filed an appeal to ask for a special investigation into alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex...

A man who was convicted of shooting a five-year-old girl in the face has been given a long jail sentence in a court in the US state of...

US President Barack Obama has cancelled forthcoming trips to Indonesia and Australia so he can stay home to oversee controversial healthcare...

Gurpreet Singh, an Indian American working his final shift as a night clerk at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kansas City, Missour, was gunned down during a...

A man was arrested on charges of stalking real estate mogul Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka in Reno,...

Sam Mendes, who is directing the 23rd installment of the 007 series, is looking for the next Bond...

Jamaican sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has put on hold his plans to challenge American sprinter Michael Johnson's 400metres world record until after the 2012 London...

The father of Padma Lakshmi's baby Krishna could be venture capitalist Adam Dell, according to...

A new American study has found that cell division in cyanobacteria is controlled by same kind of circadian rhythms that govern human...

Want to improve your memory? Well, take a daydream break, that's the conclusion of a new...

An ex-boyfriend and mentor of singer Lady Gaga has in a 30-million-dollar lawsuit claimed that he was cut off from a deal that made him 20 percent owner of her...

Michelle McGee, the tattoo model who claims to have had an affair with Sandra Bullock's husband Jesse James, reportedly worked as a...

John Edwards' estranged wife Elizabeth was 'disgusted' by his mistress' Rielle Hunter's racy photos and GQ...

Tattoo model Michelle McGee, the woman with whom Sandra Bullock's husband Jesse James had an alleged affair, has claimed that she has text messages as proof of their...

Lawrence Salander, a New York art dealer, has pleaded guilty to duping tennis star John McEnroe and actor Robert De Niro among others in a nearly 100 million dollars art investment...

Sandra Bullocks' husband Jesse James has apologized for cheating on...

In changing his plea from 'not guilty' to 'guilty', Pakistani American terror suspect David Headley has given graphic details of his preparations for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, including training at Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) operated camps in...

To avoid a possible death sentence and extradition to India, Pakistani American terror suspect David Coleman Headley has pleaded guilty to a dozen federal terrorism charges, admitting his role in planning the 2008 Mumbai terror...

US and Russian negotiations for a strategic arms reduction treaty are said to be going well, with foreign policy chiefs from both countries meeting in...

In this undated publicity image released by Helene Davis Public Relations, Angel Corella, foreground, and Carmen Corella perform in Solea at the City Center in New York. (AP Photo/Helene Davis Public...

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers With public and internal polls showing the likelihood of a huge Republican voter swing in the fall, party officials are now testing the need for and the issues...

US BASE SPEICHER // In his five deployments to Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, Lt Col Richard Manhart, a combat support officer, has faced Republican Guards, roadside bombs, 22-hour days and all...

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A North Carolina man who helped murder an Orange County fortuneteller and her daughter has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Phillipe Zamora of Roanoke...

FILE - This combo shows five of the hundreds of photos released on March 10, 2010 by the Huntington Beach police and recovered during court-authorized searches of Rodney James Alcala's Monterey...

NEW YORK — The Federal Reserve must reveal documents identifying financial companies that received Fed loans to survive the financial crisis, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A panel...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A judge has ruled that Casey Anthony is indigent and can use public money to pay for part of her defense against charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter. Circuit...

CAMDEN, N.J. — Charges have been dropped or convictions vacated in 185 drug cases in one of the nation's most crime-ridden cities because information gathered in a criminal investigation of...

In this undated product image provided by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a mobile power pack sold by Tumi is shown. The power pack was recalled because it's lithium-ion cells can...

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 1965 file photo, New York City Police Sgt. Alvin Aronoff, left, grips hands of 22-year-old Thomas Hagan in the emergency room of Jewish hospital in New York after Hagan was...

FARGO, N.D. — As the Red River swells again, Fargo, N.D., residents are weighing the National Weather Service forecasts. They are well aware that predicting what happens on the river is not an...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Top prosecutors in South Carolina and Florida say they're ready to sue if health care reform legislation passes this weekend. South Carolina Attorney General Henry...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is allowing thousands of Liberians living in the United States to remain in the country for an additional year and a half. A presidential memorandum...

RICHMOND, Va. — Consumer protection officials say a Virginia-based conservative advocacy group led by the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been raising money without first...

By ERIC GORSKIAP NATIONAL WRITER An unusual public split between U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, nuns and hospitals over abortion in the health care overhaul could undermine the church hierarchy's...

By DON THOMPSONASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California parole officials have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after several recent high-profile lapses. The new...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Ronald Taylor was handcuffed in a hospital bed where he was being treated for cancer when his lawyer came to tell him a Connecticut judge overturned his conviction in a 1993...

The new Food and Drug Administration rule is an important step towards breaking the cycle of addiction and preventing children from developing a deadly habit. Too often, children are swayed by...

The American College of Physicians, representing 129,000 internal medicine physician and medical student members, said that Congress should cast the final votes needed to get comprehensive health...

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in court Friday that the deal to compensate 10,000 police officers, firefighters and other laborers didn't contain enough money for the workers.He also said...

Massachusetts has fined more than a thousand companies over $18 million for failing to offer medical insurance to their workers - a precursor of what some business owners fear could happen on a...