A New Jersey judge sentenced a former Rutgers student to 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate kissing another man. Dharun Ravi, 20, was convicted on two second-degree bias intimidation charges in a case that garnered national headlines because his roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide after the spying. Clementi, [...]
NATO leaders sealed a landmark agreement on Monday to hand control of Afghanistan over to its own security forces by the middle of next year, putting the Western alliance on an "irreversible" path out of an unpopular, decade-long war.
Shares of Facebook (FB) fell as low as $33 today, more than 13% below the offering price on Friday. Ironically the same shareholders who were assumed to be buyers of the stock at any price are now ditching FB at a steep discount.
When Ron Paul's campaign stated last week that Mitt Romney's delegate lead was insurmountable, Paul's staff insisted they would continue competing for delegates and cited Minnesota as their next target. This past weekend, Paul accomplished that goal, winning 12 of 13 delegates at the state GOP convention. "Victories in Minnesota and other states demonstrate that [...]
A tough time gets tougher for a small business owner in North Carolina.
The only man convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing was buried Monday with little fanfare near the Libyan capital with just under 100 family members and passers-by in attendance.
On Monday, a suicide bomber posing as a member of the Yemeni military killed at least 96 people and wounded hundreds more—most if not all soldiers—in a blast in Sanaa, Yemen's capital.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is facing a new rape allegation stemming from a 2010 "sex party" in a Washington, D.C. hotel.
On Monday, the University of Notre Dame filed suit against the Obama administration over its rule that all employers must offer contraception without a copay in their insurance plans.
Think members of Congress act like a bunch of high school students? You might be on to something. A recent study from the Sunlight Foundation found that members of Congress tend to speak at about a tenth-grade level.