At least 64 people have died in a massive police raid aimed at organized crime in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, security ...

Fast bowler Brett Lee has been ruled out of the first Ashes Test match against England in Cardiff on Wednesday after a scan showed the 32-year-old has torn his abdominal muscle. Lee took six wickets ...

The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency charged with advising the president, Congress and the city of Washington, DC, on “matters of ...

Republican calls for end to marriage-tax penalty. WASHINGTON -- U.S. Representative Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, Saturday urged President Clinton to sign a bill elimina ...

The head of the U.S. Customs Service is calling on Congress to require that his agency have access to airline passenger lists to help screen for terrorists, officials said Monday. Customs Commissioner ...

A team of nuclear experts is due to arrive in Baghdad for an annual inspection of Iraq's uranium stockpiles. The International Atomic Energy Agency's team is unrelated to U.N. weapons inspections ...

And for Kobe Bryant, a prodigiously talented member of the team, the pressure is on to reproduce the form that made him the NBA's most valuable player of 2008. When he lines up for the U.S. "Dream ...

Republicans took to the Senate floor Monday to argue that a spike in gasoline prices and an Iraqi oil embargo underscored the U.S. need to reduce dependence on foreign oil by allowing drilling in the ...

The Defense Department said a new round of airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan on Monday focused on command and control facilities and air defenses. Monday's assaults, which began ...

Israeli combat planes struck a pair of Hezbollah targets inside southern Lebanon on Saturday in response to heavy fire targeting the Israeli military near Shebaa Farms, the Israeli military said. One ...

When Michael Vick completes home confinement in July, he will have served the 23-month prison sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges. After his release from a Kansas ...

Congress is considering a tougher version of "Megan's Law" which would require states to inform the public when a convicted sex offender considered a danger to the public is released from prison and ...