Authorities are investigating the motives of at least five men detained Wednesday after all passengers and crew aboard an Aeromexico plane from Cancún to Mexico City were freed.
At a hearing Wednesday on 'Hillary: The Movie,' conservative justices repeatedly asked whether limits on corporate contributions in federal elections are too broad and amount to censorship of free speech.
A regulatory overhaul of the financial industry faces difficulty in Congress, but unless the industry’s risks are addressed they could cause an even bigger crisis.
The decision to engage directly with Iran would put a senior representative of the Obama administration at the bargaining table, along with emissaries from five other nations.
AP - The fierce national debate over health care is entering a new phase, with advocates on all sides focused on a handful of legislative bottlenecks that will determine the ultimate overhaul of the $2.5 trillion medical care system.
AP - President Barack Obama on Friday slapped punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires entering the United States from China in a decision that could anger the strategically important Asian powerhouse but placate union supporters important to his health care push at home.
AP - The nation marked the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with rain-soaked remembrances and acts of volunteerism honoring those who rushed into danger to help.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush at a news conference in December could be released from jail as early as next week, according to his attorney.
A lawsuit alleges groundskeepers at one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in California were secretly instructed to break buried concrete interment vaults that contained caskets that were already buried, using backhoes. It also alleges human remains would often fall out of the broken caskets, and those body parts were either scattered or thrown away.
The space shuttle Discovery landed in California after bad weather near Kennedy Space Center forced it to wave off a landing in Florida. NASA prefers landings at Kennedy because of the cost and time required to ferry a shuttle back there. The astronauts wrapped up a mission to the international space station, where they delivered supplies, including a treadmill named for comedian Stephen Colbert.
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