Three of the guns used in the Columbine school shooting 11 years ago came from a gun show where checking the buyer’s background wasn’t required. Activists want the law changed.
Air traffic is the lifeblood of modern economies, and the Icelandic volcano and the air traffic stoppage it caused could seriously hurt European economies.
AP - Many European flights took to the skies Tuesday for the first time in days, with even Britain's busy airports promising to reopen, but the travel chaos was far from over: a massive flight backlog was growing and scientists feared yet another volcanic eruption in Iceland.
AP - A mentally ill gunman who killed a hospital worker and wounded two others was upset with a doctor he thought had implanted a monitoring device during an appendectomy in 2001, police said Tuesday.
AP - A watchdog group objected Tuesday to an evangelist's invitation to speak at the Pentagon next month, saying his past description of Islam as "evil" offended Muslims who work for the Department of Defense and the appearance should be canceled.
Nearly a week after volcanic ash in Iceland began its creep over Europe, European Union transport ministers have reopened the skies over parts of northern Europe.
The government of Puerto Rico is invalidating every birth certificate issued on the island before that date in an attempt to curb rampant fraud and identity theft that officials say has ruined lives, strained social service programs and compromised national security. It's a radical solution to what many say has been a serious and growing problem involving Puerto Rican birth certificates, which are used to apply for everything from U.S. passports to Medicaid.
Staggering levels of opium and heroin have been detected in Afghan children as young as 14 months by a team of researchers hired by the US State Department, revealing a fast-emerging problem that could cripple American efforts to bring stability to the war-torn country.
British airspace will reopen at 10 p.m. (5 p.m. ET), ending nearly a week of closure due to ash from a volcano, the British Civil Aviation Authority said.
The Supreme Court has struck down a law banning the sale of videos showing dogfights and other animal cruelty, saying it violates the right to free speech.
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