Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country.

The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to...

Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement.

The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few blocks...

Voting is underway in the western U.S. state of Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, with members of the party choosing the candidate they want to see take on President Barack Obama in...

Then US president John F. Kenendy took the virginity of a White House intern in a side room a few feet away from where staffers were drinking at an after-work party, the Daily Mail Sunday quoted a...

A group of congressmen has sought the US citizenship for jailed Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, who helped the CIA track down and kill former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden last year in his...

Former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 White House contender Mitt Romney secured his third victory of the GOP primary season, as television networks declared him the winner of Nevada's...

Sam Arora is a Maryland state Delegate, Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji served on President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) and Hari Kondabalu is a rising comedy star just back from an...

Versatile US actor Ben Gazzara died in a New York hospital of pancreatic cancer, The New York Times said. He was 81.

A student at New York's legendary Actor's Studio where other Hollywood stars like...

LOS ANGELES, Feb 5 - Following are the top 10 movies at North American box offices for the three-day weekend starting Feb. 3 with "Chronicle" at No. 1, according to studio estimates...

Police have closed the last of the big Occupy Wall Street encampments in the United States, this one just a few blocks from the White House. Some 50 police converged on McPherson Square to seize...

PHILADELPHIA -; Fire officials say a blaze in a north Philadelphia row home injured seven people, including three firefighters, one critically. Authorities say the fire in the three-story...

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2011, file photo Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. presides over the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in...

This undated photo provided by Karanda Williams shows Daniel and Belinda Conne. The couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 after they got lost while picking...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- Authorities say a Hagerstown, Md., mall was closed temporarily after a crowd became unruly while waiting for a shoe store to open and begin selling Nike's new Foam...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America's top...

Cypress Bay High in Weston ranked first out of more than 4,000 schools nationwide in the performance of its Hispanic students on Advanced Placement...

The Newport Fishing Pier in Sunny Isles Beach remains under construction six years after Hurricane Wilma left the structure severely damaged. Locals and tourists alike are disappointed, but city...

's final tribute event, had a blunt and convincing explanation for why the overseas-based strategy works so well. "It's French people making a love letter to Hollywood and...

Egypt is to try 44 people, including Americans, over the funding of non-governmental organizations, a day after the US said aid to Cairo will be reviewed over the crackdown."Forty-four people,...

Egypt is bringing criminal charges against at least 40 people, including some Americans, in a move that puts $1.3 billion in US military aid to Egypt at...

USA's Julia Mancuso competes in the Women's Giant Slalom at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in Whistler, Canada on February 25, 2010. Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won gold with a...

New Yorkers bathe in their cockiness. Which is odd for a city that enjoys the Knicks and the Mets. What, though, can one make of the fact that yesterday, the New York Giants Web site offered that...

CAIRO - The Egyptian authorities have referred 19 Americans and two dozen others to face criminal trials, the state media reported Sunday. The move is part of a politically charged investigation into...

The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America's top diplomats. The...

Narsai David is the KCBS Food and Wine Editor. He has been a successful restaurateur, chef, TV host, and columnist in the Bay Area spanning four decades. You can hear him Saturdays at 10:53am,...

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Empire State Building in New York on Friday lit up its tower red and gold to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. Sun Guoxiang, Chinese Consul General in New York,...

Vonn captured her 50th World Cup win in a downhill on the same slope a day earlier. But she was forced to wait for her start for about three minutes while officials fixed a gate and Vonn could not...

CAIRO - Egyptian investigating judges on Sunday referred 43 NGO workers, including Sam LaHood and 18 other Americans, to trial before a criminal court. They stand accused of being involved in banned...

The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from...

LE ROY, New York  — State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while...

Authorities have released the names of the three men who were arrested on Tuesday in Kendall after they attempted to flee from police in a stolen car only to be arrested minutes...

Julia Mancuso (above) followed up Lindsey Vonn's win on Saturday, marking the first time two American women have won World Cup races in consecutive days since...

Julia Mancuso, of the United States, celebrates after winning an alpine ski women's World Cup super-G, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany on Sunday. (Giovanni Auletta/Associated...

NEW YORK — Recently a friend confided over dinner that her job was "killing" her. I was surprised. She is a director of a midsize nonprofit that is doing citizen diplomacy work in the...

Super Bowl . In 2008, the Giants ruined the Patriots' undefeated season with an upset victory in Super Bowl XLII. Who do you think will win Super Bowl 2012 on...

A genetic disorder that causes extremely high cholesterol levels at a young age strikes at 10 times the national rate in Maine's Lewiston-Auburn area. The Sun Journal of Lewiston says Sunday...

Authorities say 11 people have been arrested in Washington's McPherson Square since Park Police began clearing away tents from one of the nation's last remaining Occupy...

IRI logo CAIRO: At least 40 NGO workers in Egypt have been referred to a Cairo criminal court and have been charged with ';illegal funding of a civil society organization,'; judicial...

Can civil disobedience succeed in Egypt? CAIRO: Rocks and Molotov cocktails are not working in Egypt. The military and its police force respond with tear gas,...

MADISON, Wis.-Federal wildlife officials are planning a free ice fishing day for kids on the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. Children between the ages of 6 and 13 will be allowed...

By msnbc.com staff and news services Nineteen U.S. citizens, including the son of U.S. transportation secretary Ray LaHood, have been referred for trial in Egypt in a dispute over the activities and...

It was the first time two different American women have won World Cup races on consecutive days since December 2006, when it was also Vonn and...

"That act of calling me African-American completely erased their history and the sacrifice and contributions it took to make me an author," said Morgan, a longtime U.S. citizen who calls...