Attorney General Eric Holder supplied the legal justification Monday for the decision to kill American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , rebutting criticism that the view of executive power held by President Barack Obama's administration is overly broad.
Jeremy White
Mar 06, 2012
The activists of Ukrainian group Femen, who protested naked at a polling station in Moscow where Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cast his vote Sunday, could be barred from entering Russia.
Aditi Mathur
Mar 06, 2012
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook are at odds.
Cristina Merrill
Mar 05, 2012
A federal appeals court Monday said prison officials can medicate involuntarily Jared Lee Loughner, who stands accused of shooting then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head in a 2011 and fatally gunning down six.
Dan Rivoli
Mar 05, 2012
Prince Harry began his Diamond Jubilee tour with visits to Belize, the Bahamas, and Jamaica.
Mark Johanson
Mar 05, 2012
Tyree Smith, the Florida man charged with killing a Connecticut homeless person using an ax and then eating portions of his victim's brain and eyeball, has pleaded not guilty to murder. The Connecticut Post reports that Smith also waived his right to a probable cause hearing by answering Judge Robert Devlin's questions with simple yesses and nos.
Michael Nunez
Mar 05, 2012
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook have been divorced since 2008, but the ex-couple are engaged in a bitter fight once again.
Katrina Grant
Mar 05, 2012
Only 8.6 percent of Greeks polled held a favorable view of the Germans (who, not coincidentally, happen to be Athens’ largest creditor).
Palash Ghosh
Mar 05, 2012
Mueller is working on a plea deal that will only require her to complete community service and attend drug education classes.
Katrina Grant
Mar 05, 2012
Geir Haarde presided over the Iceland's economic meltdown which saw the collapse its three main banks, its currency nosedive and soaring inflation, costing the country billions of dollars.
Oliver Tree
Mar 05, 2012
The Supreme Court said the prior verdict was “not complete” and Hekmati, 28, will now be granted a new trial.
Palash Ghosh
Mar 05, 2012
Terrell Owens, mired in financial hardship, may receive a fine or jail time if he doesn't keep up with monthly child support payments for his daughter at the request of her mother, Melanie Paige Smith.
Jason Van Hoven
Mar 05, 2012
Traders throughout the world welcomed BP's settlement news Monday with the company's stock hitting its highest level in more than a year.
Pierre Bertrand
Mar 05, 2012
The U.S. authority has filed papers for extradition of Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom and his three accomplices.
Wendy Li
Mar 05, 2012
The performance was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and boasted a 20-member cast.
Katrina Grant
Mar 05, 2012
The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Friday were: TranS1, Cray Inc, InfoSpace, TESSCO Technologies, GRAVITY Co and Verenium Corp. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were: Leap Wireless International, DISH Network Corp, HomeAway, Yandex N.V, Fortinet and Rambus.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Mar 05, 2012
The U.S. Federal prosecutors have filed papers in New Zealand seeking the extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues who are accused of criminal copyright violations.
Bhaskar Prasad
Mar 05, 2012
Two British journalists working for Iran's Press TV who were detained late last month in Libya are suspected of being spies, the head of the militia holding them said Sunday.
Eric Linton
Mar 04, 2012
A 3-year-old girl in Alaska died and her 1-year-old sister suffered from hypothermia when their mother and boyfriend locked them up in a bedroom with a window open to -30 degrees C, MSNBC reported.
Drishya Nair
Mar 04, 2012
The U.S. Federal authorities have charged 29 people involved in a $325 million operation of smuggling counterfeit goods from China.
Bhaskar Prasad
Mar 04, 2012
Symbolic of the drama surrounding the Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy, the initial hearing of the criminal investigation into the cruise-ship disaster was conducted Saturday not in a courthouse but in a theater. Outside the venue, one story line has the cruise ship's skipper not wearing his eyeglasses on the evening of the accident.
J.J. McGrath
Mar 04, 2012
Annie George, the owner of a lavish 34-room mansion in upstate Rexford, N.Y., stands accused of keeping an Indian woman, V.M., in forced labor as a domestic worker in her home. V.M.'s circumstances, and the unanswered questions surrounding her time in the U.S., combine human trafficking and modern-day slavery laws with a tangled web of immigration laws, compounding the suffering that result from the modern-day struggles that plague domestic workers, regardless of citizenship, as they ...
Melanie Jones
Mar 03, 2012