The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say.

With all the problems with fake tweets on celebrity deaths, the first question would be "Is Corey Haim really dead?" Unfortunately, the answer is yes.

Four Bronx buddies are facing a year in jail for criminal possession of a weapon - a snowball that hit an off-duty transit cop. The young men say they were horsing around in the late February storm when an errant snowball smacked Officer Adonis Ramirez in the leg.

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, appears to have inherited her father's disdain for the niceties of constitutional principles.

The former vice president was well-known throughout his tenure in that job, for missing no ...

" Hundreds of construction workers raised a rallying cry of "Build it now!" on Tuesday, gathering with elected officials at the World Trade Center site to urge a quick rebuilding of the complex.

he millionaires' club in the U.S. grew by 16 percent in 2009, following a 27 percent decline in 2008. Families with a net worth of at least $1 million, excluding primary residences, rose to 7.8 million in 2009, an increase from 6.7 million a year earlier, according to a survey of high- net-worth U.S. households conducted by Spectrem Group. "With the markets trending upwards, we expected an increase," George H. Walper Jr., president of Spectrem Group, said in a telephone interview. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index increased 24 percent in 2009 and has risen 68 percent over the past 12 months.

Theirs was a whirlwind New York City Christmas, but while true love is timeless, vacations are not. Sadly, it came time for one of the lovebirds to fly home to California, and the other, Haisong Jiang - love-struck as if Cupid hit him not with an arrow, but with a two-by-four to the head - saw his beloved to the security line at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. told law students Tuesday that he found it "very troubling" to be surrounded by loudly cheering critics at President Obama's State of the Union address, saying it was reason enough for the justices not to attend the annual speech to Congress.

A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

One of the oddities of the health-care reform debate is that we tend to despise insurers for two contradictory things.