Human remains found Tuesday in San Diego, California, are likely those of a teenage girl missing since Thursday, the San Diego County sheriff said. The remains were found in a shallow grave along a tributary south of a lake in Rancho Berna...
Brian David Mitchell, accused of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002, is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Monday. Carlie Christensen, acting U.S. attorney for Utah, released a statement saying she was pleased wi...
Stocks jumped Monday, with the Nasdaq and SP 500 pushing back into positive territory for the year, as investors welcomed AIG's $35 billion asset sale and a pair of mergers in the pharmaceutical sector. Signs that a Greek bailout package i...
While Democrats have recently threatened to use a parliamentary procedure to pass the health care reform bill, it is unclear whether their caucus will even have enough votes to take the first step. Congressional negotiators have been worki...
A Mexican journalist kidnapped in 2007 was cut into pieces and burned in a barrel, the Tabasco state attorney general's office said. The determination of reporter Rodolfo Rincon Taracena's fate was based on confessions from people suspecte...
America's total debt load is on pace to top $13 trillion this year, and $22 trillion by 2020 -- and that's just the debt we're counting. What's not being counted: potential debt bombs that don't get factored into most budget analysis. When...
