Gay-rights activists in New Jersey said they would file a lawsuit following the defeat of the gay-marriage bill in the state Senate Thursday. But the effort to legalize gay marriage through the courts carries its own risks.
A Jordanian suicide bomber said that his attack on C.I.A. operatives in Afghanistan last month was revenge for the killing of a Pakistani Taliban leader.
A series of decisions freeing corporations, unions and other interest groups from many restrictions could unleash a torrent of negative advertisements.
AP - The Senate's plan to expand health coverage to 34 million more Americans would raise costs slightly, government economic experts said in a report Saturday.
AP - The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said in video clips broadcast posthumously Saturday that all jihadists must attack U.S. targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
AP - While ramping up the fight against al-Qaida with U.S. help, the Yemeni government has also escalated its own internal conflicts in the north and south that threaten to throw the fractured country into greater chaos and even nourish the terror group's growth.
Togo's national soccer team is pulling out of the Africa Cup of Nations tournament after its team bus came under gunfire, England's Manchester City Football Club's Web site says.
The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors appears in a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader.
Federal authorities filed a criminal complaint Friday against a 56-year-old man whose scrawled note invoking "Gilligan's Island" led a Hawaiian Airlines pilot to turn around a Maui-bound flight and return Wednesday to Portland, Oregon.