BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The Virginia Tech gunman's missing mental-health records have been found at the home of a former university counseling official more than two years after the bloodbath - a discovery that angered victims' families struggling to understand how

TEHRAN, Iran -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad showed rare defiance of his strongest backer, Iran's supreme leader, by insisting on his choice for vice president Wednesday despite vehement opposition from hard-liners that has opened a deep rift in the conservative leadership.

WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he will vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party's conservative leaders to back President Barack Obama's choice to be the first Hispanic justice.

HOUSTON -- Dozens of police and federal agents descended on the Houston clinic of Michael Jackson's doctor Wednesday in what his attorney said was a search for evidence of manslaughter, thrusting the doctor back under suspicion in the King of

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Rabbits are certainly known for their propensity for multiplying, but one species of jackrabbit is having trouble keeping up. There are an estimated 150 white-sided jackrabbits left in the United States, and federal wildlife officials announced Wednesday

PHILADELPHIA -- Aramis Ramirez and Jeff Baker each had a two-run double and the Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia 10-5 on Wednesday to snap the Phillies' 10-game winning streak.

MIAMI -- The body of a shark was left lying in the middle of a downtown Miami street after two men tried to sell it to several fish markets. The men apparently carried the five or six-foot-long fish around on

LOS ANGELES -- Gidget the Chihuahua, the bug-eyed, big-eared star of 1990s Taco Bell commercials who was a diva on and off the screen, has died. She was 15.

Radical singer Alun Parry was on guitar as the audience queued up for Leonard Cohen outside the Liverpool Arena last night.

Squatters have once again returned to the JB Spray Factory in Radford. The occupiers, a loosely formed collective currently going under the name "Squat Lobster," have been occupying the old lace factory since late May, and have been working on

Anti-fur activists from across the North pay a visit to Cricket on Mathew St, Liverpool and meet a chilly reception

Following the announcement of a £15million plan to 'strengthen their borders', the British and French governments are in northern France and mass-deport hundreds of refugees stranded there. Reports from Calais say the French authorities are preparing for the destruction of

SAVE JOBS and save the planet!" That's the rallying cry from workers at Newport on the Isle of Wight who have occupied a wind turbine factory threatened with closure at the end of this month, with the loss of 600

The lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks said Wednesday that he is ready to go to the gallows and wants no mercy from ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she is confident Congress will advance an overhaul of the nation's health care system ...

An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after a prototype went missing, and Apple Inc. responded ...

Pakistan's top court has summoned former president Pervez Musharraf to explain his 2007 firing of several dozen independent-minded ...

Oakland residents overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to approve a first-of-its kind tax on medical marijuana sold at the city's four ...

The heat wave rolls on in the West, while thunderstorm roll through the Midwest, Tennessee Valley.and lower Mississippi Valley.

Hundreds of competing lawmakers screamed and wrestled in South Korea's parliament on Wednesday as a rivalry over contentious ...