By the CNN Wire Staff Washington (CNN) -- Gay rights groups have planned a rally near the US Capitol at noon Friday to urge lawmakers to work through the winter holiday to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay and lesbian ...

Police are facing a major inquiry into how they allowed a car carrying the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall to be cut off in the middle of a riot over tuition fees and attacked.

The only absolute in Cliff Lee's current journey is that there will be a huge payday at the end of the road. With reports of $160 million on the table for six or seven years from the Yankees, executives of the Texas Rangers went to Arkansas yesterday ...

I'd like to report that the 3-D used in the new "Narnia" movie is simply divine, but that wouldn't be true, and I wouldn't want Aslan on my case for fibbing.

Dieters could help themselves to lose weight by thinking about food, according to a new study. A small-scale study in Science showed that people who had imagined they were eating chocolate wanted it less than those who had not been thinking of it.

'The Fighter' stars Mark Wahlberg (l.) and Christian Bale (r.) as two brothers from Boston known for their boxing chops. Fact-based drama about an amateur boxer and his crack-addicted older brother.

When it comes to UN climate summits, Africans usually, and rightly, have plenty to say. We are used to being the conscience of the outside world, which is so important in a setting where it is kept - through armed police, restrictions on peaceful ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Jackson spent the last two years of his life plotting his musical comeback. Besides a spectacular, record-breaking concert series planned for London, he was also tapping the hottest producers and biggest names for an album he ...

As you've probably heard, earlier this week Google held a major event to launch the Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS, its new operating system that revolves almost entirely around web apps and browser extensions.

Pete Cameron, 38, of Jamaica Plain, said he received a text about the Crawford deal from a friend. “I couldn't believe it,'' he said.

San Diego County officials said the burning of a house containing massive amounts of bomb-making material went just as planned Thursday morning, with no large explosions and with much of the fire and smoke gone within an hour.

The author of a WikiLeaks-related e-book has removed the publication from Amazon amidst a controversy surrounding its sale. "We did not remove the title, and are verifying that it was removed from sale by the author," an Amazon spokesman said via ...

TEHRAN - Iran denied reports on Friday that it has freed a woman sentenced to death by stoning after human rights campaigners stoked confusion by releasing unconfirmed reports to the press.

THURSDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that seems to counter the prevailing wisdom that any form of hormone replacement therapy raises the risk of breast cancer, a new look at some old data suggests that estrogen-only ...

AP RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Tech officials argued they did their best under the rules at the time to notify students of a gunman on the loose at the outset of the 2007 shooting rampage.

NEW YORK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended slightly higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 hovering around two-year highs, a trend investors expect to continue through the rest of the year.

Among the reasons cited was the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation's lack of a required agreement with a hospital where patients could be transferred.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A US embassy cable released by the WikiLeaks website says drug maker Pfizer Inc. hired investigators to uncover "corruption links" to Nigeria's former attorney general to stop federal cases against it over a 1996 drug study in ...