North Korea said on Friday it had detained an American tourist on charges of perpetrating a crime against the state and is putting him through criminal proceedings, indicating it is

Research In Motion said on Thursday it plans to change the way it charges for its BlackBerry services after reporting that its subscriber base shrank for the first time in

Hundreds of thousands of people who have been stopped or frisked by New York police – but never convicted of any crime – can sue the police department for keeping

Confronted with a revolt among the rank and file, House Republicans abruptly put off a vote Thursday night on legislation allowing tax rates to rise for households earning $1 million

The following is from an email sent by the White House on Thursday evening (EST), titled “Travel Warning; Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza: The security environment remains complex in

Israel’s U.N. envoy urged the Security Council on Thursday to condemn what he described as significant rearming by Hezbollah, saying the terrorist group now possessed an arsenal of tens of

The White House on Thursday came to the defense of former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel against critics who have attacked his record on Israel and Iran in a bid to

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not known for avoiding controversy. But as Washington reviews an independent inquiry that slammed Clinton’s State Department for failures related to the fatal

The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a $633 billion defense bill for next year despite Pentagon complaints that it spares outdated but politically popular weapons at the expense of the

Facebook Inc unveiled a test on Thursday that charges users to send certain types of messages through the social network, the latest example of the company looking for new sources

Even as they buried more victims of the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history on Thursday, residents of Newtown, Connecticut, sought ways to pressure U.S. leaders to restrict access to

A deal announced this week with tobacco companies will distribute money that has been tied up for years to 17 states, but the funds may provide only short-term relief to

Peter Madoff will serve 10 years in prison for his role in his older brother’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, a U.S. judge said on Thursday. Peter Madoff, 67, pleaded guilty in

A tanker carrying light crude oil down the Hudson River briefly ran aground south of Albany, New York, but showed no evidence of a spill, the Coast Guard said on

With any hopes for replacing Hillary Clinton as the top U.S. diplomat dashed, Susan Rice told the annual U.N. Correspondents Association dinner “there’s nowhere in the world I’d rather be

More than half of the U.S. Senate has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to re-emphasize his “readiness to take military action against Iran if it continues its efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon.” In New York, both Democratic Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, signed the letter. While Obama has stated that “all […]

An American man imprisoned in Cuba for crimes against the state has received another visit from Jewish leaders on the island. Adela Dworin is president of the Jewish Community of

Newark Mayor Cory Booker has ruled out a bid for New Jersey governor and is eyeing a run for U.S. Senate in 2014. Booker, 43, announced his decision on Twitter

New York City’s biggest power utility says it’s preparing to respond to potential outages as windy weather approaches the metropolitan area. The National Weather Service is forecasting gusty wind and sometimes heavy rain in the area Thursday night and Friday. The agency says wind gusts could reach 45 mph Friday morning and early afternoon. The […]

A federal report says a helicopter that crashed into the East River off New York City on a sightseeing tour last year was carrying too much weight. Thursday’s report from the National Transportation Safety Board doesn’t conclude what caused the crash. That will likely be determined in two months. But the report says the Bell […]