One day after Israeli moratorium on settlements expires, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delays his decision on whether to quit the US-backed Middle East peace talks for one week.
A new poll shows that Republican candidates for governor and Senate in California are still far behind their Democratic opponents among Hispanic voters.
The C.I.A. has drastically increased bombing in the mountains of Pakistan, American officials said, part of an effort to try to cripple the Taliban there.
After losing the Republic primary, Senator Lisa Murkowski is seeking an advantage as a write-in underdog. Despite daunting obstacles, many think she might just pull it off.
AP - North Korea's Kim Jong Il made his youngest son a four-star general, giving the 28-year-old his first known official title in a promotion seen Tuesday as confirmation that he is slated to become the country's next leader.
AP - The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession.
AP - Russia's president on Tuesday fired Yury Luzhkov, ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated values and bellicose posturing, and for continuing his vacation while smog from forest fires choked his city.
Serb pleads guilty to beating New York man and lawyer leaves open the possibility that he could testify against two diplomats who helped him flee the U.S.
In a bizarre twist, James Heselden, owner of the company that makes the two-wheeled Segway personal transporter, died in a Segway-related mishap -- just before the scheduled release of a study suggesting Segway-related injuries may be on the rise.
A U.S. soldier is in custody in connection with the shooting deaths of two service members and the injury of another in Iraq, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
Tapes obtained by CNN of interrogations of a group of U.S. servicemen charged with unprovoked killings of Afghan civilians describe scenes of cold-blooded murder.
President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other top Democrats are heading back to school Tuesday, in hopes of convincing first time voters from the 2008 election to vote again in 2010.
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