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Iraqi commandos showed off skills they learned from U.S. military forces, who Saturday formally handed over control of combat operations to Iraqi security forces.

Elena Kagan was sworn in as the 112th justice at the Supreme Court on Saturday on a bible borrowed from Justice Stephen Breyer.

Two people were charged Saturday in "very disturbing" drug-related killings of two young children and two adult relatives outside Washington D.C.

Wearing his signature olive green fatigues, former Cuban President Fidel Castro made his first institutional appearance in four years Saturday, addressing a special session of the communist nation's National Assembly.

Police in Flint, Michigan, are investigating 13 stabbings resulting in five deaths since late May that they believe have been committed by one man.

Astronauts are scheduled to begin a spacewalk Saturday morning to fix a broken part of the International Space Station's cooling system, NASA said.

A 100-square-mile ice sheet -- the biggest since 1962 -- has broken away from an Arctic ice shelf off northern Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.

BP says it has started its "static kill" procedure on its crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico, pumping drilling mud into it from above in an effort to help seal it for good.

Nine people died in a mass shooting today at a beer distributor in Manchester, Connecticut, according to a police official close to the investigation.

Senators began floor debate Tuesday on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, with Republicans mustering little desire to delay a final vote. The 50-year-old solicitor general is expected to be confirmed as the 112th justice on Thursday, and would be sworn into her judicial post by week's end.

A explosive device blew up early Tuesday at an open air market in Reynosa, Mexico, the city government reported.

President Barack Obama signed a bill Tuesday reducing the disparity in penalties for the use of crack and powder cocaine, according to the White House.

Six teens drowned after they waded into unfamiliar waters and fell into a deeper part of the Red River in Shreveport, Louisiana, officials said.

Monkeys on cocaine. New windows for a closed visitor center. Modern dance as a tool for software development.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn't remove the FBI's seal from its site.

At a time when partisan politics are bitter, midterm election races are tight and almost every legislative effort is stalled, who would you expect to take the boldest step in years to address the deadliest war in the world, in the heart of Central Africa?

Protesters are planning to demonstrate Saturday on the one-year anniversary of the detention of three American hikers seized by Iranian forces near the Iraqi border.

Three convicted murderers who broke out of a Kingman, Arizona, prison Friday night got help from a woman who was on a visitation list for one of them, authorities said Saturday.

Brazil President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state-run media reported Saturday.

A senior Hamas member was killed during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, Hamas security forces said Saturday.