A key part of Arizona's immigration law has been blocked by a judge. This means police won't be required to ask people about their immigration status.

The Pentagon is focusing on jailed Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as the main suspect in the leak of tens of thousands of secret U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official told CNN.

Kern County -- in southern California -- was under a state of emergency Wednesday as a result of spreading wildfires that have destroyed 25 homes, caused more than 2,300 people to evacuate and burned 15,000 acres.

Jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich were set to begin their deliberations Wednesday.

A Pakistani jet carrying 152 people crashed near Islamabad this morning, killing everyone onboard. The U.S. Embassy says American citizens were killed.

From the two-story care home where she lived in the northern English city of Bradford, 104-year-old Ivy Bean would tell her nearly 57,000 Twitter followers around the world what she got up to each day -- from eating fish and chips to sitting in the garden.

Extending an experiment at the foundation of quantum physics confirms that two is company and three is a crowd. In a new twist on the famous double-slit experiment, researchers have verified a basic tenet of quantum mechanics by showing that adding a third slit doesn´t create additional interference between packets of light.

A deadly explosion at German chemical conglomerate IG Farben's Ludwigshafen plant kills more than 200 people and injures more than 3,800 — 500 of them seriously.