The Manhattan district attorney filed charges early Saturday against 10 people arrested when a protest by New York firefighters rallying against the city's scaled-back World Trade Center recovery ...

Clinton won Kentucky by more than 30 points, but Obama's share of the state's 51 delegates was enough put him over the threshold, according to CNN estimates. Obama is expected to ...

He later filed a series of lawsuits against top Bush officials alleging that he was beaten by guards during his six-month detention in solitary confinement, and that officials personally condoned ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

Turkey's government slapped manufacturing and media giant Dogan Holding with a massive $2.53 billion fine for unpaid taxes, the conglomerate reported. In a dispute that has often spilled onto the ...

Newly declassified papers documenting negotiations ahead of President Nixon's 1972 visit to China show that Beijing concerns about U.S. spy planes skimming its borders are long-standing. Rather than a ...

Women in suburban Chicago are using what they call their White privilege to be the face of dissent in their communities on behalf of neighbors of other races and setting examples for their own ...

Those who snapped up a ticket to the event that has been dubbed "Avatar Day" will be privy to footage of the much-hyped, technically-advanced 3D science fiction epic that some are ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed the United Nations as the "key" unifying factor in the global fight against terror. The president, who is on his first state visit to the United States ...

Swede Ibrahimovic has signed five-year contract with the European champions Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o moves to the San Siro as part of the transfer (CNN)-- Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has ...

Rory Fallon scored the only goal of the game to help New Zealand qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1982; Bahrain were handed a chance to equalize in the second ha ...

Police hunting for a New Zealand couple who fled the country after a bank mistakenly paid them $NZ10 million (US$6 million) believe they traveled to Hong Kong. New Zealand authorities have sought help ...