A federal appeals court paused the release of hundreds of immigrants who were arrested during the Department of Homeland Security’s aggressive immigration actions in the Chicago area earlier this year ...

Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast's homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Prosecutors ...

He also once again assigned some blame for the recent decline of the Republican Party to the political advocacy group Club for Growth, which targets moderate GOP incumbents who do ...

Eight people were arrested Tuesday, one on a charge of murder, in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman at a remote Louisiana campsite during what police say was an initiation ceremony for the ...

GOP front-runner Sen. John McCain reached out to jittery conservatives Friday, saying he was ready to sit down with former candidate Mitt Romney to unite Republicans before the general election.

Ten U.S. Muslim organizations threatened this week to cease working with the FBI, citing "McCarthy-era tactics" by the agency, including efforts to covertly infiltrate California mosques. The groups ...

House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt Friday suggested Democrats might abandon efforts to find a compromise with Republicans on air travel security legislation, hashing out areas of disagreement next ...

The first national poll conducted after Barack Obama publicly named Joe Biden as his running mate suggests that the battle for the presidency between the Illinois senator and John McCain is all tied ...

Irish voters are going to the polls again Friday -- to vote on a treaty they rejected just over a year ago. But this time round, opinion polls indicate the "yes" campaign to adopt the Lisbon Treaty ...

But this technique -- called embryo splitting -- isn't being used because of all the recent hubbub over cloning. Embryo splitting is just what its name suggests. A new, identical embryo is split off ...

"Dr. King made it rather clear that the cause that we were fighting for was not only worth living for, but it was worth dying for, if need be," said Fred Gray, the lawyer who help ...

Portugal and France kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals with morale-boosting victories on Saturday night. Both star-studded teams had faced the miserable prospect of ...