Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has come out in favor of legalizing drugs in an attempt to disrupt the illegal markets that have turned parts of Mexico into battlegrounds.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced far-reaching proposals for restructuring the Pentagon budget, including getting rid of the U.S. Joint Forces Command.
Massive mudslides that followed heavy rains in northwestern China killed 337 people, while another 1,148 are missing, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday. FULL STORY | INDIA: 165 DEAD | PAKISTAN: 13.8M AFFECTED
Two U.S. Marines were killed in southern Afghanistan Saturday while a prisoner was trying to escape, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force announced Monday.
Three boaters in South Florida have made it back to dry land, three days after they went missing when their 32-foot boat broke down on a fishing trip 20 miles off of West Palm Beach.
An alert rider of the Boston area transit system helped nab an alleged flasher by posting a photo of the suspect on Twitter, according to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority.
An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to abort takeoff Sunday in Sitka, Alaska, after an eagle was sucked into one of its engines, a spokesman for the airline said.
The undersea gusher in the Gulf of Mexico has been brought under control, but the worst oil spill in U.S. history will continue to be felt along the Gulf Coast for some time, Obama administration officials said Sunday.
Activists rallied outside the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia, Sunday to applaud the man military officials suspect leaked scores of military documents to the WikiLeaks website -- a 22-year-old Army private named Bradley Manning.
A Dutch woman confessed to giving birth to four babies, then placing them in suitcases and storing them on the top floor of her parents' home, a Dutch prosecutor said.
Zsa Zsa Gabor's recovery from hip replacement surgery last month has been slower than predicted, but her daughter disputed a report that the actress "suffered a setback" Saturday.
The mother of one of the inmates who escaped from an Arizona prison eight days ago has been arrested and charged with aiding his escape, officials said Saturday.