A sea of people wearing orange and maroon flowed onto the main lawn at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, some clutching single roses, to remember the victims of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Heavy turbulence on a United Airlines flight from Denver to Phoenix Tuesday forced the plane to turn back to Denver International Airport. Two people on board were taken to the hospital because of injuries.
For the second time, a federal judge has declared a mistrial against six men accused of scheming to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices, including offices in Miami.
Federal immigration agents raided Pilgrim's Pride poultry plants in five states Wednesday in a crackdown on an alleged scam to provide fake identification for illegal immigrant workers, authorities said.
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein embraced sobbing relativesand thanked colleagues after being released Wednesday from more thantwo years in U.S. military custody.
The Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's use of lethal injection executions Wednesday, likely clearing the way to resume executions that have been on hold for nearly 8 months.
The furor over Sen. Barack Obama's words about bitter voters in small towns looms large as the Democratic front-runner and rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are slated to debate Wednesday just days before the Pennsylvania primary.
An unemployed graphic designer who authorities believe was nearlykilled by ricin was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of possessingthe deadly toxin in what he described as an "exotic idea," nevercarried out, to poison unspecified enemies.
Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli ground force in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing three soldiers during a day of fierce fighting. Five Palestinians were killed in separate clashes.
Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt Wednesday over the U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks, calling it a pretext used to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
Intense fighting in the Gaza Strip Wednesday left four Hamas gunmen and three Israeli soldiers dead, Hamas and the Israeli army said. At least five Palestinians were injured in the clashes in the central and northern Gaza Strip, Hamas and
Firefighters were hoping rain and snow Wednesday would help them quell blazes that scorched thousands of acres, forced hundreds of residents to evacuate and left three people dead.
A white candle lit at the stroke of midnight began a day of mourning Wednesday on Virginia Tech's campus, exactly one year after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history left 32 people and the gunman dead.
Jimmy Carter rebuffed a call Wednesday from an Israeli lawmaker to halt his contacts with Hamas, and senior leaders of the Islamic militant group rushed to Egypt in anticipation of a meeting with the former U.S. president.
Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush will propose a new target for stopping the growth of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
President Bush has quite a birthday present for Pope Benedict XVI: at least 9,000 excited guests gathered on the White House's South Lawn for a 21-gun salute, a famed soprano's rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" and an emotional presidential welcome.
