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Levi Aron’s confession of the killing of 8-year-old Hasidic child Leiby Kletzky on Friday has caused a big stir within the tight-knit in the Jewish Community in New York.

A breakthrough raises a moral dilemma

Aron harbored dreams of appearing on the “American Idol” TV show and sang covers of popular songs on the SingSnap.com Web site.

HIV/AIDS treatment should be focused on preventing the disease's spread by administering drugs early, a prominent Canadian HIV researcher said ahead of a global HIV/AIDS conference.

What do you know about Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy magazine? Or rather, what you don't know about the Playboy kingpin? Adding to the list of rumors about him, news of his death spread across social media on Monday, which was later downplayed by the magazine mogul via his Twitter account.

Brooklyn resident Levi Aron on Thursday confessed to killing a child, in what is one of the most grisly murders to hit the greater New York area in a while.

Word comes from across the Atlantic that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation will investigate whether or not journalists at News Corp. tried to illegally access the phone records of those perished in the 9-11 attacks.

The 2011 Emmy nominations were announced today, with AMC's Mad Men with the most nominations including Best Drama Series.

Kody Brown believes his family should be exempt from prosecution in Utah

With Carmageddon quickly approaching on Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department has asked the likes of Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and Ashton Kutcher to spread the word about the closure of Interstate 405.

After two exhausting days of search for the eight-year-old boy, Leiby Kletzky's dismembered body was found by authorities in two locations in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Kletzky's funeral on Thursday drew thousands of people. Levi Aron, 35, will be in court Thursday, charged with second-degree murder of Leiby Kletzky.

The government in Indian still has no leads as to who is responsible for the three Mumbai blasts that killed at least 17 people and injured more than 100.

A new book by a New York Times reporter casts doubt on Obama's anecdote about his mother's health insurance woes

Thousands of mourners and residents gathered into a neighborhood courtyard in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening for the funeral of the 8-year-old Leibby Kletzky who was dismembered and killed this week while returning home from camp.

Twitter is courting bigtime advertisers and will soon allow them to tailor, automate and publish ads in bulk directly onto the Internet microblogging service, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Sister Wives star Kody Brown is going to court to defend the unusual family arrangement that catapulted him and his wives -- all four of them -- to television fame.

A 35-year-old man is awaiting charges after he confessed to authorities that he kidnapped and panicked, killing Leiby Kletzky, the Brooklyn boy who went missing on his way home from summer camp.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says he may have a way out of the debt deal crisis -- a sort of last-chance option that would permit President Barack Obama to increase the debt limit, even if Democrats and Republicans can't immediately agree regarding how to cut the budget deficit. But will Conservative Republicans support it?

Google+ has become a social networking phenomenon and may very well surpass 10 million users by today's end and 20 million by the weekend, according to Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen's new analysis.

The U.S. trade shortage rose 15 percent to $50.2 billion in May, a record high since October 2008, as oil prices and imports skyrocketed according to a report release by the Commerce Department.

We have built machines capable of summoning the artificial intelligence needed to defeat a human on 'Jeopardy,' but grocery shopping is still beyond their metallic grasp.

Sister Wives star Kody Brown is going to court to defend the unusual family arrangement that catapulted him and his wives -- all four of them -- to television fame.

The heat wave and debilitating drought affecting more than a dozen states has people asking a common question in this season of extreme weather: why? The answer is likely a weather phenomenon called La Niña.

Divers searching for victims in a sunken tourist boat in Russia’s Volga River have found approximately 40 children, the highest death toll for children in Russia since a 2004 terrorist attack.

Soaring temperatures have scorched states from Illinois to Texas and have done more than cause discomfort -- a record drought is battering farmers and ranchers whose crops are withering and whose livestock are going unfed.

Keaton launches K by Keaton, a tabletop collection for Bed, Bath, and Beyond

New York's legalizing gay marriage could encourage same sex couples to adopt, experts say.

Wall Street banks are reported to post poor second quarter results this week, accounting for nearly a 20 percent drop in sales and trading revenues and prompting another round of layoffs, according to the New York Times.

In what is perhaps an unprecedented development, a major U.S. newspaper has called for the removal of the chief of a foreign country’s intelligence chief.