A federal jury heard the lone recorded phone call of an ex-Goldman Sachs board member speaking with a billionaire hedge fund founder Wednesday as the government laid a foundation for its insider trading case. Read More

A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million _ $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason. Read More

Authorities say Australia native Adam Baker, who has since returned home after his disabled daughter was murdered in North Carolina where he had lived, is being sought on a local arrest order on a charge unrelated to her death. Read More

A Texas woman was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison for suffocating her 6-year-old son in a New Hampshire motel room and leaving his body along a dirt road in Maine. Read More

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A top Iranian nuclear official said that traces of enriched uranium discovered at an underground bunker came from a "routine technical issue," the country's official IRNA news agency reported Saturday. Read More

Lawyer: NJ man accused of killing NYC boy Etan Patz in 1979 mentally ill, hallucinates. Read More

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A lawyer for an Algerian native accused of planning to blow up synagogues said Tuesday that her client was a mentally unstable man targeted by the New York Police Department as part of its "unconstitutional and illegal" surveillance of Muslims. Read More

The Army has denied early release for a soldier who tried to blow the whistle on a plot to kill Afghan civilians in 2010, only to later be convicted in the plot himself. Read More

Authorities say the death of a Russian woman whose body was found months after she disappeared on a trip to Maryland has been ruled a homicide. Read More

A Portuguese man facing a sentence in his home country for plotting to kill his ex-wife has been ordered to be returned to Portugal, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Read More

The Obama administration cautiously offered up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast to oil and gas drilling Tuesday but didn't go far enough to satisfy Republicans pushing to greatly expand drilling as a way to create jobs and wean the country off foreign oil. Read More

Ohio could regain its status as one of the country's busiest death penalty states, with 11 executions scheduled over the next 20 months, following the resumption of lethal injection in the case of a man who fatally stabbed the 15-year-old son of his former employers. Read More

The Obama administration proposed a new rule Friday that would end a practice in which some endangered species were classified differently in neighboring states. Read More

As of Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, at least 4,485 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Read More

As of Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at least 1,851 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. Read More

President Barack Obama pushes his legislative "to-do list" on Wednesday. Read More

A condemned inmate was moved to the southern Ohio prison where he was scheduled to be executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing the 15-year-old son of his former employers during a 1985 farmhouse burglary. Read More

The person yelling gay slurs at a man whose beating was videotaped and posted on the Internet appears to be the person filming the assault and not one of the attackers, an attorney said Tuesday. Read More