Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, was arrested Wednesday at his home in Corinth, Miss. He is accused of mailing letters poisoned with ricin.Associated Press Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, wrote numerous Web…
Mangled metal and crushed vehicles are all that remains at the blast site of the fertilizer company in West, Texas. A massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. killed as…
President Barack Obama attends an interfaith healing service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston for victims of Monday’s Boston Marathon explosions.Charles Krupa/Associated Press In Washington, Homeland Security…
Senator says state has more lobbyists than inspectors
This combination of images released by the FBI on Thursday shows who the FBI is calling Suspect 2, left, in white cap, and Suspect 1, in black cap, as they…
Investigators comb through the finish-line area of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street on Wednesday, two days after two bombs exploded, killing three and injuring more than 170.Julio Cortez/Associated Press…
‘Pretty shameful day for Washington’ president says
Bashar Assad also lashed out at Jordan for allowing “thousands” of fighters to enter Syria through its borders and warned that the “fire will not stop at Syria’s border.” The…
Opposition activists and independent observers called the judge’s declaration blatant and legally unfounded favoritism from a purportedly independent body that is packed with confederates of President-elect Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’s hand-picked…
This is a side view of the home of Jenny Sanford taken Wednesday on Sullivan’s Island, S.C., where she says her ex-husband former Gov. Mark Sanford trespassed in February of…
Lawmakers voted 77 to 44 in favor of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading Wednesday night. People watching from the public gallery and some lawmakers immediately broke…
The proposed legislation creates a four-year pilot program that requires patients and caregivers to undergo background checks, limits the amount of marijuana patients can have at a time, and establishes…
It’s the “pivot point” of the legal debate, Judge Morgan Christen of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday. Morgan and two other judges on the nation’s largest…
In Arizona, however, the Republican-controlled Legislature is now moving to save such guns. Prompted by a gun buyback event in January in Tucson, where a 2011 shooting rampage left six…
Alastair Grant/Associated Press<br><br>Mark Thatcher and his wife, Sarah, watch as the coffin of his mother, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is carried by pallbearers out from St Paul’s Cathedral…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. waits for an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington after speaking about gun legislation on the Senate floor. A bipartisan effort to expand background checks failed…
Shannon Walsh, 15, places flowers on a memorial to Boston Marathon bombing victim, Martin Richard, 8, near the Richard family house in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.Michael Dwyer/Associated Press Several…
Among the damaged buildings was the West Rest Haven Nursing Home, from which first responders evacuated 133 patients, some in wheelchairs. Information was hard to come by in the hours…
An envelope addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, congressional officials said, heightening concerns about terrorism a day after a bombing…
A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said American asked to halt its flights until 5 p.m. EDT. Flights into American’s five biggest cities – New York, Dallas, Los Angeles,…
A mourner places a note with flowers at a police barricade near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston on Tuesday. The bombs that ripped through the crowd…
To some immigration advocates, it’s unnecessarily punitive. The Senate’s new bipartisan immigration bill drew criticism from the right and from the left Tuesday – convincing members of the bipartisan “Gang…
A U.S. Capitol Police hazmat vehicle is parked at a mail processing center for Congressional mail in Hyattsville, Md., where a letter addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., tested positive…
The bill written by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., right, and Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., would extend gun background checks to sales at commercial venues such as gun shows and online,…
Sheila Pott, mother of Audrie Pott who committed suicide after a sexual assault, stands by a photograph of her daughter and message board during a news conference in San Jose,…
The Hawaii First Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of a Southern California couple who sued Aloha Bed & Breakfast for discrimination in 2011, Lambda Legal announced Monday. In 2007,…
More than 140 injured; 2 undetonated devices found nearby after twin explosions rock Copley Square
Singer visits Holocaust victim’s museum and writes note
