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A school district in Mississippi has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Gen. David Petraeus, the new commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, has called for labeling the leaders of the insurgent Haqqani network as terrorists.

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron blasted Scottish authorities' decision to release the convicted Lockerbie bomber last year.

For political junkies, the midterm election's marquee races are well known -- and I offered a list of those last week. But in a year when politics is hitting the boiling point, a top 10 list can't cover all the interesting races going on across the nation.

A black Agriculture Department employee resigned Monday after conservative media outlets aired a video of her telling an audience she had not given a white farmer "the full force of what I could do" to help him save the family farm.

A missing family of five in southern California is sought in connection with the death of a child found Sunday in their home, police told CNN Monday.

U.S. National Guard forces will begin deploying along the border with Mexico in August and will be fully trained and deployed by the end of the month, officials said.

Tests on the ruptured BP well will go on for another 24 hours as officials try to explain "anomalous" pressure readings and possible leaks, Thad Allen said.

A new topical gel has shown promise in helping to protect women from HIV infection, according to a study being presented at the International AIDS Conference.

Police have identified the body of a missing mother found in a vacant lot in Camden, New Jersey. A family member found the body of Jenna Lord, 23, an official said.

The American Embassy in Honduras has issued a warning about classic dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever, which have killed 21 people in the country this year. Five more deaths are under investigation.

President Obama's supporters have been frustrated about the apparent paradox of this administration. With the recent passage of historic financial regulation legislation, many Democrats are having trouble grasping why his approval ratings still lag and why Democrats might lose control of the House in the fall elections.

With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple's iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world.

Tests relating to the recently recapped oil well in the Gulf of Mexico have detected a "seep a distance from the well," Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen tells BP.

A deadly shootout in a Washington state park Saturday night was the result of a fight between party-goers attending two separate gatherings at the park, police said Sunday.

Seventeen people were killed and 10 injured in an attack on a party in Torreon, Mexico, the state-run news agency Notimex reported, citing a representative of the federal attorney's general office.

The National Tea Party Federation has expelled Mark Williams and his Tea Party Express because of an inflammatory blog post he wrote.

Crews in Pike County, Kentucky, worked throughout the night in boats to rescues people from homes as the result of flash flooding in the area, officials said.

South Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene urged voters Sunday to "get South Carolina and America back to work" in his first major public speech since surprising the political world last month by capturing his party's nomination.