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US 'landlords from hell' plead guilty to felonies
Prosecutors called them the "landlords from hell." A U.S. couple accused of going to extreme lengths to drive tenants from a San Francisco apartment ...
New probe sought in US jet crash on missile theory
Former U.S. investigators want to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of a Paris-bound jet off the coast of New York City, saying new evidence points ...
Feds in US bust international gambling ring
U.S. authorities unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to ...
Russia could stand in way of Obama's nuclear cuts
By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking ...
US senators seek cost cuts for F-35 fighter jet
Senators sought cost-cutting opportunities Wednesday in the Pentagon's $400 billion program for the next-generation F-35, a fighter jet with a ...
Todashev's body brought to Russia for burial
The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia ...
Oil rises near $99 a barrel before Bernanke speaks
The price of oil rose to near $99 a barrel on Wednesday, driven by a report of falling U.S. stockpiles of crude and ahead of the conclusion of a ...
Obama: Friction in Afghan peace talks no surprise
President Barack Obama says it's no surprise that there's friction in early efforts to launch peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan's ...
Obama: NSA programs have saved lives
President Barack Obama says lives have been saved by sweeping surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency. Obama says at least 50 ...
US spy chief: plot against Wall Street foiled
The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national ...
Cuban dissident: Repression forced family to flee
One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek ...
The ins and outs of G-8 summit promises
Group of Eight summit participants are powerful people: the leaders of the U.S., Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, plus top ...
French man found in plane's cockpit to leave US
A French man who gained access to the cockpit of a plane at Philadelphia International Airport by impersonating an airline employee has been sentenced ...
US man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship
A grand jury has indicted a U.S. man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy. The Orange County Register says ...
CIA chief on visit to ally Romania
The director of the CIA is in Romania to meet top officials in this former Communist nation which is now a staunch ally of the U.S. John Brennan met ...
Remote US village abuzz over shipwreck search
French and U.S. experts searched Monday for a 17th century ship which they believe sank in Lake Michigan in 1679. Three French underwater ...
Miss Universe contest heads to Moscow
This year's Miss Universe pageant will be held in Russia's capital, Moscow. Donald Trump made the announcement Sunday after the Miss USA pageant in ...
Merkel: US intelligence helped foil terror plot
Germany's chancellor says U.S. intelligence was key to foiling a large-scale terror plot, acknowledging her country is "dependent" on cooperating with ...
38 countries beat UN targets to reduce hunger
Thirty-eight countries have beaten a U.N.-imposed deadline of 2015 to cut in half the proportion of hungry people. The U.N. Food and Agriculture ...
Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine
Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so. Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity's best ...
Nazi unit leader's US life prompts shock, denial
The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in the U.S. for the past six decades came as a shock to people ...
Obama taps finance director as envoy to Denmark
Handing plum European posts to key campaign boosters, President Barack Obama on Friday nominated his former finance director to be U.S. ambassador to ...
World stocks mixed as Asia rebounds
Global stocks were mixed Friday as Asia rebounded from a sharp selloff, with U.S. markets losing early gains after unimpressive economic data and a ...
German ministers quiz web firms on US surveillance
German ministers questioned major Internet companies on Friday about U.S. tracking of web activity, days before a visit to Berlin by President Barack ...
Russia disputes US claim on Syria chemical weapons
President Vladimir Putin's foreign affairs adviser says Moscow is not convinced with Washington's claim that Syrian regime had used chemical weapons ...