A Paris appeals court on Tuesday overturned terror convictions for five former Guantanamo inmates, ruling that French intelligence officials improperly questioned them while they were in U.S. custody.
Three former Atlanta police officers who each pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in connection with the death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid were sentenced Tuesday to federal prison.
NEW YORK — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has given Wall Street a double dose of reassurance
The first extensive report into Britain’s tainted blood scandal stopped short Monday of blaming individual doctors or companies for what is widely viewed as the National Health Service’s worst treatment disaster.
The helicopter company offered “escapes ... to idyllic destinations.” But this wasn’t the kind of flight it had in mind.
The Supreme Court decided Monday it will take a new look at whether a neo-Nazi convicted of murdering three men in Ohio should be sentenced to death.
A federal prosecutor told jurors Monday that a chemical company knew for years that its mining operation in a small Montana town exposed residents to asbestos, but it hid the risks from workers and government regulators.
The governor of South Carolina, a vocal opponent of federal bailouts in a state beset by one of the nation’s highest jobless rates, has decided to take stimulus money to increase weekly unemployment checks by $25, officials said Monday.
Fifth-grader Jordan Brown boarded the bus and headed to school like he does most other mornings in this rural western Pennsylvania community.
An operation the American military at first described as a "precision strike" instead killed 13 Afghan civilians and only three militants, the United States said Saturday, three days after sending a general to the site to investigate.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush did not apologize as his trial began Thursday, and instead struck a defiant tone – telling the judges he wanted to hit back at the humiliation Iraq had suffered at U.S. hands.
A small ferry carrying about 60 passengers capsized on a river in southern Bangladesh early Thursday, killing at least 27 people, officials said.
The same graphic video that helped end a frantic manhunt for a man accused of taping himself while he molested a 2-year-old girl will be the key piece of evidence in his trial.Chester Arthur Stiles, who is also accused of molesting a 6-year-old, faces 22 felony charges, including 21 that carry a life sentence.
The California Legislature passed a budget early Thursday to help close a $42 billion deficit, ending an epic impasse that involved several all-night sessions and threatened to throw thousands of state employees out of work.
A man was shot dead as he drove during the night during riots and protests over the high cost of living, officials said Wednesday – the first fatality in a nearly month-old strike that has hammered this French Caribbean island’s tourist industry and paralyzed daily life.
A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States.
Iran has built an unmanned surveillance aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles – enough to reach Israel – a top defense official said in remarks published Wednesday.
Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues.
Police say an upstate New York television executive who sought to improve the image of Muslims in the media beheaded his wife after she filed for divorce.
A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the city’s regulation requiring some chain restaurants to post calories on menus and menu boards, saying the rule is a reasonable effort to curb obesity.
