Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders went on trial in the Netherlands on Monday, charged with inciting discrimination and hatred over a controversial film he made about Islam.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut jury is deliberating in the trial of a man charged in the home-invasion killings of a woman and her two daughters in 2007. New Haven Superior ..

PHOENIX (AP) - The company that operates one-third of Phoenix city buses has locked out dozens of workers in a contract dispute. The Arizona Republic reports that negotiations betw..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people who signed contracts to buy homes rose in August for the second straight month but remained far below last year's pace. The weak economy and ..

WASHINGTON (AP) - Orders to U.S. factories fell in August, reflecting a big drop in demand for commercial aircraft. But outside of the volatile transportation sector, orders rose f..

BARTLES, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio sheriff says five people who died in a house fire included three females, a male and an 8-month-old infant. Sheriff Jeff Lawless in Lawrence County in ..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't decide who really owns the initials "SC" when it comes to college sports: the University of Southern California or the University of South..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks have lost their bid to get the Supreme Court to rule that New York City must provide a proper burial for material..

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The owner of Alabama's largest casino, four state senators and several top lobbyists have been indicted on federal charges accusing them of vote buying in a..

ROME (AP) - The Italian coast guard said Monday that it had called off the search for a pair of American balloonists who disappeared last week in the Adriatic Sea. The search was c..

BOSTON (AP) - A winner of the CBS reality show "Big Brother 9" plans to change his plea in a drug case in Boston. Adam Jasinski, of Delray Beach, Fla., pleaded not guilty to posses..

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Florida man will spend two years in federal prison for smuggling marijuana into that state after it was shipped to Pittsburgh from a Canadian source. Twenty-six..

MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) - A message in a bottle sent by a Melbourne high school student as part of his marine science class has come ashore in Ireland. The bottle was released into th..

France has requested the extradition of an al Qaeda suspect arrested in Italy, a French court official said Monday.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - Coast Guard officials have rescued two people and a dog from their sinking shrimp boat. The Jacksonville, Fla. couple, were fishing Friday when their net got ..

Days after protesting police allegedly attacked Ecuador\'s president and held him at a hospital for hours, the country\'s interior minister says the government remains convinced the uprising was an attempted coup.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is starting its new term with a new justice, Elena Kagan, and bad news for hundreds of parties trying to get their cases heard at the nation's h..

NEW YORK (AP) - The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex..

Representatives from about 200 countries start meeting on Monday in China to narrow differences on climate change and grapple with extreme weather such as rising temperatures and melting polar icecaps.

CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian and Iranian airlines agreed Sunday to resume direct flights between the two countries for the first time since 1979, when Tehran severed ties because Egypt ma..