Former President Carter met with the exiled leader of Hamas on Friday, brushing off U.S. and Israeli objections to talks with a man accused of masterminding kidnappings and suicide bombings against Israelis.
A woman once convicted of killing her Marine husband with arsenic to pay for breast implants was cleared Thursday after new tests showed no traces of poison.
The White House on Friday vigorously defended the 14-year-old free-trade agreement among the United States, Mexico and Canada against sharp criticism from Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
Robert Reich, Labor Secretary under the first Clinton Administration, endorsed Barack Obama's bid for president. He has a long-standing friendship with both Bill and Hillary Clinton, but lately has criticized the couple's campaign tactics.
Former Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines and two other top executivesare paying a total of nearly $31.4 million in a settlement with thegovernment over their roles in a 2004 accounting scandal.
Retail gas prices set new records Friday on their seemingly relentless march toward $3.50 a gallon, and diesel prices pushed further above $4 a gallon.
After hours of lawyers popping up with similar objections and questions, a custody hearing for 416 children seized from a polygamist sect finally turned to whether they were abused: A child welfare worker said some women at the sect's ranch
Pope Benedict XVI told diplomats at the United Nations on Friday that respect for human rights was the key to solving many of the world's problems, while cautioning that international cooperation was threatened by "the decisions of a small number."
Residents across the Midwest and beyond were alarmed early Friday by the earthquake that radiated from Southern Illinois and shook the entire Chicago area.
A 75-year-old woman was convicted Thursday of murdering a homeless man to collect life insurance, but the jury said it was deadlocked on another murder charge and a conspiracy count.
A Yale University art student duped the student newspaper with a story about inducing repeated abortions on herself and using the blood for her senior art project, the school said Thursday.
A passenger who left his seat to pray in the back of a plane before it took off, ignoring flight attendants' orders to return, was removed by an airport security guard, a witness and the airline said.
Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail.
When her 20-year-old son stumbled home one night last October, Gail DeLucca told him to go to bed and sleep it off. "I love you, Ray," she called up the stairs, figuring she would wait until morning to lecture him
A ruling that freed a woman from prison and cast doubt on prosecutions over "shaken baby syndrome" will stand, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided.
Pope Benedict XVI told leaders of America's Roman Catholic colleges and universities Thursday that academic freedom has "great value" for the schools, but it does not justify promoting positions that violate the Catholic faith.
