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....