President Obama threw down a challenge Monday to Tea Party candidates, demanding to know how they would make all the spending cuts they promise. “The challenge, I think, for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically, what would you do?...

ON a sweltering 109-degree August day, driving past election signs (John McCain, J. D. Hayworth, Ben Quayle) and cacti (saguaro), I pulled into a roadside mini-mall, hoping it was the right one. Entering a barnlike Mexican restaurant called Blanco, I...

“The 40-Year-Old Virgin” actor Shelley Malil said he stabbed his girlfriend more than 20 times after mistaking her for an attacker in the dark, according to a report from People magazine. While testifying in a California courtroom Thursday, Malil...

An unknown assailant attacked people at a Chinese retirement home Friday, killing four and wounding two others. The attack happened in a district of Yichun city in Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It...

Protesters on Tuesday night pelted a police station with eggs, rocks and bottles despite Police Chief Charlie Beck’s plea for calm earlier in the day and his promise to thoroughly investigate an officer’s fatal shooting of a Guatemalan...

The mother of a 4-year-old girl who weighed 15 pounds when she was found dead in her family’s apartment this week has been arrested on charges that include assault, endangering the welfare of a child and drug possession, the authorities said Friday.

A woman in the United States has been jailed after pleading guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the internet.

A year after investigating prostitution via Craigslist, MSNBC has gone undercover to once again probe the illegal sex trade on Craigslist and see what the site has done to “clean up its act” since last May. The report found that...

There is nothing dreary about Orphanage No. 11. It has rooms filled with enough dolls and trains and stuffed animals to make any child giggly. It has speech therapists and round-the-clock nurses and cooks who delight in covertly slipping a treat into a...

It started with a party invitation to a 15-year-old girl from some men she knew. She took her 7-year-old stepsister to an apartment down the street from their home near the Statehouse, where the girls had been hanging around outside on a Sunday...