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CAIRO (MCT) — As a small gaggle of supporters cheered and waved his portraits outside, former dictator Hosni Mubarak was whisked by helicopter Thursday out of one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons a day after a court ruled that he could no longer be jaile...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s deputy prime minister told The Associated Press that foreign fighters and their international backers are to blame for a purported chemical weapons attack near Damascus that the opposition says killed at least 100 people, th...

NEW YORK (AP) — The City Council on Thursday overrode Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s vetoes to create a watchdog for the nation’s biggest police department and make it easier to file profiling claims against officers amid applause from supporters and angry war...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market rose Thursday but it was a glitch on the Nasdaq exchange that became the day’s big talking point.
Trading on the Nasdaq was interrupted just after midday because of problems with a quote dissemination system. That halted ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mayor Bob Filner kept his low profile Thursday amid speculation he will resign as part of the sexual harassment settlement negotiated by his lawyers and city officials. Meantime, the lawyer for the former Filner aide who sued the mayor sa...

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman named Chelsea and begin hormone treatment as soon as possible, the soldier said a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving government secrets to WikiLeaks.
Manning announce...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week, the first black U.S. president, a living symbol of the racial progress civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about, will stand near the spot where King stood 50 years ago and say where he believes the nation shoul...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Homeland Security employee is the operator of a racist website predicting and advocating a race war, a department official said Thursday.
Ayo Kimathi, who is an acquisitions officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, operates the...

NEW YORK — A mysterious technical glitch halted trading on the Nasdaq for three hours Thursday in the latest major electronic breakdown on Wall Street, embarrassing the stock exchange that hosts the biggest names in technology, including Apple, Microsoft ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is poised to suspend another major weapons shipment to Egypt amid deep divisions within the Obama administration over whether to cut off aid to the military-backed government. The debate mirrors similar disagreements over intervening...