Oil giant BP said in an internal report on Wednesday that multiple companies and work teams contributed to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months.
Attorney General Eric Holder calls the planned burning of the Quran at a Florida church "idiotic and dangerous." Pastor says the Sept. 11 protest is on, but he's praying about it.
Ahead of President Obama's big economic speech, House Republican Leader John Boehner is proposing a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008.
The imam at the center of the controversy over a YMCA-like Islamic center proposed for a site near the World Trade Center says the project will not be stopped.
Florida pastor Terry Jones will undoubtedly offend and infuriate many people around the world if he follows through on a plan to burn Muslim Qurans at his church this weekend.
Protesters on Tuesday night pelted a police station with eggs, rocks and bottles despite Police Chief Charlie Beck's plea for calm earlier in the day and his promise to thoroughly investigate an officer's fatal shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant wielding a knife.
Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.
Elderly heiress Huguette Clark's attorney has responded to an effort by her relatives to oust him by ridiculing them as Johnny-come-latelies. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.
Oracle Corp said its newly appointed president, Mark Hurd, will be paid an annual salary of $950,000 and the former HP chief will be eligible for a target bonus of $5million-$10 million.
A statement released by Scotland Yard on Monday and posted on the website of the London Metropolitan Police Service reveals more details about the peculiar death of Gareth Williams, a 31-year-old mathematics wizard who worked for Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency but sheds no light on possible causes.
Investigators found no explosives aboard a Los Angeles-bound Thai Airways flight in which a bomb threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror, the FBI said Wednesday.
Syrian drama aired on state TV has sparked intense debate between critics who say it distorts Islam's image and supporters who say it's a realistic portrayal.
In what’s being described as a “brave new world” in book publishing, a serialized paranormal romance aimed at teenage girls is being released online in snippets that will keep being updated between now and Halloween.
What was left of Tropical Storm Hermine was making its way north Wednesday, having drenched parts of northeastern Mexico and south Texas before weakening.
James McDonald pitched seven innings, Ronny Cedeno's triple keyed a five-run seventh and the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates beat the slumping Atlanta Braves for the second straight day, winning 5-0 on Tuesday night.
The Arizona Green Party is asking a judge to kick more than half of the group's nominees off the November ballot and overturn the state law the let them on the ballot.
Officials hoisted a 70-foot piece of World Trade Center steel at ground zero Tuesday and vowed to open the Sept. 11 memorial by next year, although they acknowledged that the ongoing construction at the site would limit where and how the public could visit.
Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said.
Analysis: President Barack Obama's new stimulus plan directs government assistance to some of the strongest parts of the economy without solving the biggest problem: jobs.
The Los Angeles sheriff's deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in 2006 sued his department on Tuesday, claiming he has since been ostracized and passed over for promotions by the agency.
