"By the end of my second term," says would-be President Newt Gingrich, "we will have the first permanent base on the moon" ...
US Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is detained for two hours at airport by US Transportation Security Administration ...
J. Joseph Garrahy, Governor of Rhode Island from 1977 to 1985, dies from heart disease in West Palm Beach, Florida ...
Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos dies after he is struck by a motorcycle near Athens, Greece ...
Jared Loughner wins? A year after shooting her in the head, US Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona) resigns to concentrate on her recovery ...
Britney Spears' father will petition court to end conservatorship, as sort of a wedding present to his daughter ...
Fired, scandal-plagued, and cancer-ridden ex-Penn State coach Joe Paterno is reportedly near death ...
Because FBI shielded crime kingpin Whitey Bulger from prosecution, feds must pay compensation to families of his murder victims ...
Longtime Penn State Head Coach Joe Paterno dies from complications of lung cancer at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pennsylvania ...
US Pentagon's definition of espionage would preclude journalism, says Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange ...
Soldier of Fortune Jack Idema, convicted of operating a private jail in Afghanistan and later pardoned, dies from AIDS in Quintana Roo, Mexico ...