Attorney Craig Weintraub addressed the death penalty issue after his client, 52-year-old Ariel Castro, pleaded not guilty to hundreds of charges including rape and kidnapping. Castro, dressed in an orange…
A banner showing Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili, a nuclear negotiator, is carried at a campaign rally, two days prior to the election, in Tehran, Iran.Vahid Salemi/Associated Press It’s a…
Ten-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, center, received a lung transplant Wednesday at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.Murnaghan Family, File/Associated Press Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, received new lungs from an…
Elroy Chester, 44, said that he didn’t want relatives of his victims to have “hate in your heart for me.” Chester said he confessed to killing firefighter Willie Ryman III…
Some of the victims’ families also vowed to keep up the pressure for stricter gun control as they met with lawmakers in Washington. “This mother’s heartbreak that I carry, this…
The warming bonds between Shiite-led Iraq and Sunni-ruled Kuwait are noteworthy in a region increasingly plagued by the sectarian divisions running through Syria’s civil war and Iraq, which is struggling…
The finding by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman came in response to a Department of Justice decision this week to ditch rules barring over-the-counter sales to girls younger than 15…
Plant chief Takeshi Takahashi told journalists on a plant tour Wednesday that workers have cleaned up much of the debris in their work areas, but that the priorities are keeping…
While some action against the Scouts was widely anticipated, given the denomination’s very public opposition to the change, the resolution takes a softer tone than many had expected. It also…
When President Barack Obama named a successor to former CIA Director David Petraeus last January, Morell was passed over in favor of the White House counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan. Morell…
President Jacob Zuma told parliament that he is happy with the progress that the 94-year-old is making following his hospitalization on Saturday. Mandela spent a fifth straight day Wednesday in…
In the raid, which comes at a time when the West is worried that extremists are increasingly joining the rebellion, the victorious fighters raised black Sunni Islamist flags over the…
Protests spread across the country after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered police to clear a peaceful sit-in of Turks who object to plans to raze a popular downtown park…
Programs disrupted dozens of attacks, Alexander says
The sagging pants trend was popularized by hip-hop artists and has been embraced by youths.Wayne Parry/Associated Press The city is set to pass a law today regulating how people dress…
But the country’s main civil-liberties organization wasn’t buying it, filing the most significant lawsuit against the sweeping phone-record collection program so far. The American Civil Liberties Union and its New…
Except that the students in this case were al-Qaida fighters in Mali. And the manual was a detailed guide, with diagrams and photographs, on how to use a weapon that…
Humboldt County sheriff’s dispatchers called in virtually every medical, law enforcement and fire worker in the sparsely populated area after drivers reported “near-apocalyptic” conditions Monday evening on I-80 at Winnemucca,…
A Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou 10 astronaut capsule lifted off as scheduled at 5:38 p.m. (0938 GMT) Tuesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge…
Jan Cooper, of Anaheim, fired one shot from her .357-magnum Smith & Wesson revolver around 12:30 a.m. Sunday as a man attempted to break into her home. During a 911…
30,000 protesters gather in park; police use force to clear the area
Iraqi border posts along the Syrian frontier are coming under attack, and Syrian truck drivers have been singled out and shot inside Iraq. Syrian soldiers earlier this year sought refuge…
Justin Stanfield Thomas, 34, had traveled from Phoenix to a friends home on Friday to pick up some of his things from a duplex where he lived until earlier this…
SEOUL, South Korea The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity marked by recent…
The executive committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network held a teleconference to consider children who seek to qualify for adult lungs, and many members voiced serious ethical and…
The Department of Justice, in the latest development in a complex back-and-forth over access to the morning-after pill, notified U.S. District Judge Edward Korman it will submit a plan for…
The two votes scheduled for Tuesday afternoon are on procedural measures to officially allow debate to move forward on the far-reaching measure to remake the nations immigration laws and offer…
Attorney Kenneth Edelin said in a statement that contractor Griffin Campbell hired excavator operator Sean Benschop because of his experience but Benschop was to use the machine to remove debris…
This North Atlantic island nation has welcomed eccentric chess master Bobby Fischer, WikiLeaks secret-spiller Julian Assange and the online freedom advocates of the Pirate Party. Could its next guest be…
