The United States, India and Japan will hold their first trilateral meeting this month as Washington pushes ahead with its pivot toward Asia, where China's growing power has raised concern.
The United States Postal Service announced steps Monday to eliminate its next-day delivery of First Class mail in an effort to avoid bankruptcy in 2012.
Patty White has confessed to killing long-time friend, Michele O'Dowd, and to leaving her friend's body under a pile of Christmas presents in O'Dowd's Jacksonville, Fl. home.
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a state court's ruling that religious groups in New York could not use public school facilities for worship services, even outside of school hours.
You know the economy is in a dire shape when even Royals start to take cuts out of their pay checks. Queen Elizabeth has agreed to freeze her annual 'salary' until at least 2015.
Fashion model and online blogger Lauren Scruggs, 23, lost her hand and suffered severe injuries to her face and should after she accidentally walked into a spinning airplane propeller late Saturday.
Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Ivory Coast, appeared before the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands on Monday, making him the first ever head-of-state to do so.
Businessman Donald Trump said Ron Paul has “zero chance” of securing the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Two year-old Bianca Jones has been missing since Friday at 9:45 a.m., when her father, D'Andre Lane, 32, claims she was taken during a carjacking. Family members have questioned whether Lane has told authorities the full truth of what occurred that morning.
The Harlem man accused of planning to bomb government buildings in New York and New Jersey will have his day in court, just not yet. Prosecutors and defense attorneys have agreed to postpone having a grand jury weigh in on the case for the time being.
Lesbians and transgenders also encounter significant discrimination in the fields of education and employment.
The New York State Nurses associations say nearly 10,000 of its workers at three city hospitals may walk off the job.
Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman will boycott the Dec. 27 GOP debates to protest Donald Trump as moderator, saying his presence is beneath the presidency and calling his politics frivolous. Trump slammed them for the move, calling Paul a clown and Huntsman inconsequential, but neither candidate is bowing to Trump's bluster.
Brookfield Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park, owes the city about $139,000 in back taxes dating back to 2006, said the Finance Department.
Breaking into a French nuclear power plant before dawn Monday, Greenpeace activists say they have exposed the vulnerability of the site as they unfurled a banner on one of its domes reading: Safe Nuclear Power Doesn't Exist.
The Federal Reserve must take immediate action to inject new life into a moribund U.S. recovery or risk letting the nation settle into a permanently lower growth path, a top Fed official said on Monday.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she will be backing a bill to crack down on corrupt gun runners and dealers.
The aforementioned designation suggests a 50 percent chance of a downgrade within 90 days.
Fox Business program Follow the Money, hosted by Eric Bolling, has gripes with The Muppets, a 2011 film.
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been charged with DWI after police caught the 65-year-old Babbit driving on the wrong side of the road Saturday night. Last month, limited funding threatened once again to shut down the FAA's operations, and Babbit's arrest is unlikely to push Congress to extend funding for the agency.
European stocks rose to a five-week closing high on Monday, after French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on a range of measures to help resolve the Eurozone debt crisis.
Phyllis Schlafly, the conservative activist who spearheaded the anti-feminist movement in the 1970s, has endorsed Michele Bachmann for the Republican presidential nomination.
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon defended his controversial and violent offensive against drug cartels, a war that has cost the country nearly 50,000 lives since he was elected in 2006.
Macedonia is symbolically important to Greece since it is the home of legendary heroes like Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great.
Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge and attorney general under President George W. Bush, said arguments for Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case are flimsy at best.
Sooner or later, income taxes on upper-income groups in the United States, including the uber-rich, have to be raised to balance the federal budget, and to restore tax fairness.
In a new round of political horse trading, Senate Democrats are offering up a modified version of their payroll tax cut extension, one which pays for itself in a GOP-friendly manner, in order to increase the likelihood of its package.
President Barack Obama and three 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls are all contenders for the award.
Ginger White, the alleged former love interest of Herman Cain, used to think about grocery store shopping while having sex with the former Republican presidential candidate.
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has spoken movingly about his daughter Bella's struggles with Trisomy 18 disorder. But what is Trisomy 18, and how does it affect those diagnosed? Though Santorum calls Bella the center of the universe, the devastating disorder claims nine of 10 children before age one and has severe physical and mental symptoms.
