A top militant who once served as a general in the military under Saddam Hussein was arrested on Monday, Iraqi officials said. Abdul Khaleq al-Sabawi, al Qaeda in Iraq's leader in the Nineveh province ...

Last month a suicide bomb at a mosque killed the province's deputy governor KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN)-- A militant mullah and his two children were killed when a bomb he was making in his southern ...

Americans are downbeat on the economy, according to preliminary data released by the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index.

Cheney sold $35 million in Halliburton stock in August. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential candidate and former Halliburton Co. Chairman Dick Cheney sold 660,000 ...

The Florida Democratic Party has filed suit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court in a bid to force the county's canvassing board to count votes under a "dimple test." Dimpled ballots are those with a ...

Afghan fighters were conducting cave-by-cave searches Tuesday, looking for al Qaeda fighters and Osama bin Laden, as 15 of bin Laden's soldiers arrived in Kandahar for questioning by FBI agents.

Third-party presidential candidates Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader charged Monday night that they've been frozen out of presidential debates by a political system that is manipulated by a two-party ...

By Greg Botelho CNNfyi.com News Editor (CNN) -- "I did it all wrong," says Robin Mamlet with a chuckle. As dean of undergraduate admissions at Stanford University, she knows bette ...

Jean Lindsay, a spunky 67-year-old with two masters' degrees, panicked after she failed to land a job in the garden center of a Lowe's home-improvement store. She started to wonder whether a woman of ...

Buoyed by confidence in Afghanistan's newly installed interim administration, Afghan refugees from Pakistan have begun returning to their homeland in numbers. Hamid Karzai's administration, which has ...

If someone develops shingles after she gave birth will this virus affect her next pregnancy? Is there any chance or possibility that the shingles will return again for the rest of her life? And if it ...

A recount handed victory to his opponent, Democrat Al Franken, by 225 votes. About 3 million ballots were cast in the race. "We have a good shot at this, and so I proceed with that in mind," Coleman ...