Atlanta's first snowy Christmas Day since 1882?

A strong storm system churning its way through the desert Southwest early Thursday will bring metro Atlanta a good chance for a white Christmas...

Obama, White House in deep doo doo...

“I don’t think [White House aides] have the slightest idea what they’re facing.”

U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala

The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis....

How to Keep Your Kids Safe on Facebook

500 million users worldwide and still growing, Facebook is now ubiquitous. Because of its popularity, minors have jumped onto the social media bandwagon...

NJ student secretly taped having sex kills himself

A college student jumped to his death off a bridge a day after authorities say two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man...

Man convicted of murder in Angels pitcher's death

A jury convicted a construction worker of murder Monday for a drunken-driving crash that killed promising Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart and two of his friends....

Deflation, inflation and the U.S. Fed

One day after the Federal Reserve got investors thinking about uncomfortably low inflation, Starbucks announced it was raising prices on some of its coffee drinks...

Obama dismisses GOP 'Pledge' as echo of disaster

President Barack Obama says Republicans' plan to slash taxes and cut spending if the GOP retakes the House...

Pope calm after 6 nabbed in suspected terror plot

Police raided a garbage depot and arrested street cleaners in a suspected terror plot against Pope Benedict XVI on Friday....

Gunman kills mother, self at Johns Hopkins

A man who became distraught as he was being briefed on his mother's condition by a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled a gun and shot and wounded the doctor...

Report: Illegal drug use up sharply last year

The rate of illegal drug use rose last year to the highest level in nearly a decade, fueled by a sharp increase in marijuana use and a surge in ecstasy and methamphetamine abuse...

Big night for tea party: O'Donnell wins Delaware

Conservative Christine O'Donnell pulled off a stunning upset over nine-term Rep. Mike Castle in the Republican Senate primary in Delaware Tuesday, propelled by tea party activists into a November showdown...

Plane carrying 51 crashes in Venezuela; 36 survive

A plane carrying 51 people crashed Monday in a steel mill yard in eastern Venezuela, killing 15 people on board...

Mexican marines arrest presumed drug kingpin

Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, a presumed leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva cartel and one of the country's most-wanted fugitives...

Palin, Beck recall 9/11 attacks at Alaska event

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin introduced Glenn Beck at an event in her home state Saturday night, telling several thousand roaring fans..

3rd drill to the rescue for Chile's trapped miners

Chile is sparing no expense to rescue its 33 trapped miners, mounting three separate drilling efforts to carve escape tunnels through nearly a half-mile...

Florida pastor says he's 'rethinking' canceled Quran burning

A Florida pastor who called off a Quran burning said late Thursday he was "rethinking our position" after a proposed meeting over the location....

Appeals court lets government halt torture lawsuit

A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects...

Grim outlook for Democrats puts House up for grabs

Their control of the House in peril, Democrats are scratching to survive in races all across the country...

Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3

A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person....

Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains

In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden....

Dublin protester tries to make citizen's arrest on Tony Blair

"I went up to him and I said 'Mr Blair, I'm here to make a citizen's arrest for the war crimes that you've committed'," she said.

Deadly bombing at Pakistan rally

At least 22 people have been killed in a large suicide blast in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police said....

Offshore Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico Explodes

An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said....

US hostage crisis over: Gunman shot, 3 people freed

Police shot a gunman and safely freed the three people he had taken hostage Wednesday in a four-hour standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington....

Mission accomplished in Iraq?

Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, is a fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that promotes innovative thought from across the ideological spectrum....

Scientists expect C-section rate to keep rising

More women will be giving birth by C-section for the foreseeable future, government scientists said Monday, releasing a study....

Pakistan residents flee as water enters town

Pakistan residents flee as water enters town: Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan on Sunday as authorities struggled...

Admin. Official: FDA to Inspect Large Egg Farms

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to inspect all of the country's largest egg farms before the end of next year following the massive recall...

Mexican massacre investigator found dead

Body of official dumped beside road near scene of killing of 72 Central and South American migrants in Tamaulipas...

UN calls for action over DRC rapes

The UN Security Council has demanded that efforts be stepped up to prevent a repeat of the reported mass rape in the....

'Breakthrough' melanoma drug

Scientists say the experimental drug could revolutionize treatment of advanced melanoma....

Al-Shabab vows 'massive' Somali war

Al-Shabab fighters have attacked a hotel in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, killing at least 35 people, a day after declaring a massive war....

Traffic jam stretching more than 60 miles in China

A traffic jam stretching more than 60 miles in China has entered its ninth day with no end in sight, state media reported...

Wikileaks Founder: Believes Pentagon behind it

Assange said he was shocked by the allegations against him and that he had never had sexual relations with anybody...

Newt Compares Mosque to Nazis

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday compared the mosque planned to go up...

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White House: Blast won't derail Iraq transition

The deadly suicide bombing outside a Baghdad army headquarters won't halt Iraq's transition to democracy...

Islamic leaders not abandoning Ground Zero mosque plans

Reports the Islamic community will abandon plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City were "completely...

Rise In Attacks On New York's Hispanics

The Hispanic community that lives on Staten Island near Manhattan has been targeted in a spate of racially motivated attacks...

Obama’s Endangered Economists

First Peter Orszag, now Christina Romer — the White’s House’s economic gurus.....

F.D.A. Approves 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive

The pill, called ella, which will be available by prescription only...

The stunning decline of Barack Obama

10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown...

WIRE: USA 'Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It'

The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills...

Morocco to close 1,250 'unsafe' mosques

Morocco's government says it will close 1,256 mosques deemed unsafe to avoid a repeat of the collapse..

Gaza flotilla raid inquiry calls Binyamin Netanyahu

Israeli leader testifies before investigation into deadly attack on aid convoy in which nine activists were killed Binyamin Netanyahu...

Mormon church `regrets' Calif. gay marriage ruling

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it regrets a federal judge's ruling overturning a ban on gay marriage in California...

China's billionaires lose a third of wealth in credit crisis

Plunging property and share prices knocked a third off the average wealth of China's billionaires in the first fall for seven years...

Worst smog yet hits Moscow, planes are diverted

The massive blaze has caused airborne pollutants, including carbon monoxide, to be four times higher than average - the worst seen to date in Moscow....

Senate confirms Elena Kagan to Supreme Court

Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in as the nation's 112th Supreme Court justice on Saturday, making one-third of the nation's highest court women....

One in Three Adults Obese in America's Most Obese States

West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas have the highest obesity rates in America...

New York mosque near September 11 site wins approval

A New York city agency on Tuesday cleared the way for construction of a Muslim cultural centre near the site of the September 11 attacks...

Cheney remains hospitalized after heart surgery

Daughter Liz Cheney says her 69-year-old dad is out of intensive care and hopes to return home this week....

Love and Basketball - Friendship Love and Dream

Love & Basketball the romantic movie has joined the lines of many classic movies....