Facebook allows police searches

2011-07-13 10:07:54

US law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users' accounts without their knowledge.

US mom in son's death wasn't mentally ill

2011-07-13 14:29:51

Lawyers for a multimillionaire charged with murdering her 8-year-old autistic son in a New York City hotel say she wasn't mentally ill.

US panel says changes needed at US nuclear plants

2011-07-13 10:19:21

Calling the Japan nuclear disaster "unacceptable," an expert task force convened by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is saying that plants in the U.S. need better protections for rare, catastrophic events.

US sisters sue over mom's burial in wrong plot

2011-07-13 13:28:34

Two New York City sisters have filed a lawsuit claiming their mother was buried in a different grave from the plot they had been visiting for 20 years.

FARC still threatens Colombia: US ambassador

2011-07-13 13:31:12

Recent attacks of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) indicate the rebel group is still a threat, US ambassador in Bogota Michael Mckinley said Tuesday.

Betty Ford remembered at bipartisan memorial

2011-07-13 14:16:53

First ladies, past and present, and others who called the White House home remembered Betty Ford on Tuesday, not just for her decades-long work against substance abuse but for her contributions to a political era when friendship among lawmakers helped them govern.

US airports have security holes

2011-07-13 08:58:12

It has been almost 10 years since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, and US airports still are not as secure as they need to be.

Schwarzenegger back in Hollywood saddle

2011-07-13 07:39:58

Two months after putting his Hollywood return on hold following a damaging sex scandal, Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to get back into the saddle.

Obama asked to probe Bush

2011-07-13 09:23:03

A human rights group asked US President Barack Obama to order a criminal investigation into allegations of detainee abuse authorized by former President George W. Bush.

Post-9/11, Sikhs say they are mistaken targets

2011-07-12 06:51:21

Kamaljit Atwal's neighborhood seems like an unlikely place for a hate crime. His street in this Sacramento suburb seems a model of diversity.

Gunmen abduct 2 US citizens in Philippines

2011-07-12 10:04:07

A mother and son, both US citizens, and a Filipino relative, who were on brief vacation, were abducted by heavily armed gunmen in an island off the coast east of this city

Texas mom delivers 16-pound newborn

2011-07-12 08:21:30

A Texas mom expected a big baby, but nothing like this: 16 pounds, 1 ounce (7.3 kilograms).