Nearly 1,000 refugees were detained on a remote island in December before being towed out to sea and abandoned with little food or water, rights group says.
AP - Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush's unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.
AP - President Barack Obama met with his economic advisers Saturday after he asked Americans to support his economic package as a way to better schools, lower electricity bills and health coverage for millions who lose insurance.
AP - A Kentucky high school football coach charged in the death of a player who collapsed at practice says he is heartbroken and that part of his life has been taken away.
A suspect in police custody calls himself a "stewmaker" for a Mexican drug lord, saying he disposed of about 300 bodies by dissolving them in acid. Santiago Meza Lopez, who claims he was paid $600 a week for his macabre duties, says he works for drug lord Teodoro Garcia Simental, also known as "el Teo."
Miami police issued a plea for information Saturday after at least one person with an AK-47 opened fire on a crowd of people on a street corner Friday night, killing two teens and wounding seven other people. "Someone must have seen something," Police Officer Kenia Alfonso told CNN.