Letters containing a powdery substance were sent to at least three congressional offices this week, and the sender is threatening more that could include harmful material, the top Senate law enforcement official said Wednesday.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will put her future in the hands of her Labor Party parliamentary colleagues next Monday, she told reporters Thursday in Adelaide.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who is being sued in California by the federal government, said she has a duty to not pay taxes because her son died in what she called an "immoral" war.
The grandmother and stepmother of a 9-year-old Alabama girl who died Monday after allegedly being ordered to run around her family's house -- for hours -- as punishment for lying about taking a candy bar have been charged with murder, police said Wednesday.
Jurors deliberating in the trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of fatally beating his ex-girlfriend asked Wednesday for a piece of evidence.
The man in charge of ensuring the safety of miners at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine, where 29 died in a 2010 explosion, is now charged with routinely skirting the regulations that he was supposed to enforce.
Substance abuse is one of the most pervasive and costly problems in our country. Over 68 million American adults have some form of substance use disorder and about 25 million are addicted to one or more substances. Every year, millions of lives are lost because of it.
The top government lawyers from three dozen states sent a letter to Google on Wednesday, expressing "strong concerns" with the privacy policy the Web giant intends to roll out soon.
Tiger Woods battled into the second round of the WGC Match Play Championship in Arizona Wednesday with a last hole win over Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.
While stone carvers chisel new pieces to repair damage inflicted on the Washington National Cathedral by an earthquake last August, fundraisers say the cathedral's restoration fund is $18 million short of the repair cost.
FC Basel will take a 1-0 lead over Bayern Munich into the second leg of their Champions League last 16 tie after a late goal from substitute Valentin Stocker gave them victory Wednesday.
Authorities in Uganda were investigating the death of a U.S. reality television producer whose work includes "The Amazing Race" and "Whale Wars,'" officials said Wednesday.
A series of blasts last week in Thailand that set off accusations between Iran and Israel involved bombs disguised as radio sets, police said Wednesday.
The shooting deaths of five people at a suburban Atlanta spa Tuesday night was a murder-suicide triggered by a domestic dispute, police said Wednesday.