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Artist Thomas Kinkade's death last month was from an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium, according to the Santa Clara County, California, medical examiner.

Police arrested the wife and mother of Adam Mayes, the suspect in the kidnapping of Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters. Bain and her oldest girl have been found dead.

Maurice Sendak illustrated nearly 100 books and won accolades for his fanciful tales. One critic called him the "the Picasso of children's literature."

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has agreed to end her nearly three-week hunger strike and receive medical treatment, her spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Three months before he was killed by a U.S. drone strike, Fahd al Quso, one of al Qaeda's top operatives in Yemen, spoke at length to a local journalist. He was asked why al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had stopped plotting against the United States. Was it because all efforts were devoted to an internal project?

Sen. Dick Lugar, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, talks to Soledad O'Brien about his re-election campaign.

A 60-year-old man attempting to fly from Baltimore to Tampa, Florida, this weekend is facing charges for attempting to board a plane with a loaded gun, the Transportation Security Administration says.

Dick Lugar will lose Indiana's GOP Senate primary to Richard Mourdock, CNN projects. Mourdock had the tea party's support against Lugar, a foreign policy expert.

The Senate's longest-serving Republican became the latest casualty of the struggle between the GOP's conservatives and moderates as a tea party-backed challenger beat Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar in Tuesday's primary.

LZ Granderson says the blame for the mixed signals on gay marriage policy rests with the president, not with Joe Biden

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) says foiled terror plot shows a 'new level of sophistication' in Al Qaeda terror plans.

Kent H. Hughes says that traders will benefit from a period of volatility while long-term investors will do fine

Douglass Cassel: Why not try them before the same civilian courts that try homegrown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh?

The latest foiled bomb plot targeting an airliner is an indication that, while the device did not ultimately pose a threat, terrorists remain determined, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said Tuesday.

After cabinet members express support for same- sex marriage, the White House looks to clarify the president's position.

The fight over a potential doubling of student loan interest rates this summer hits the Senate floor Tuesday with Republicans promising to block a White House-backed plan unless Democrats allow a vote on a GOP alternative.

A left-wing coalition that opposes austerity will try to form a new government in Greece starting Tuesday, after the center-right party that came first in elections gave up on Monday.

Yvonne Walker says 401(k)s can tip retirees into poverty, and that innovative plans providing guaranteed retirement income are needed

A referendum that would constitutionally ban same-sex marriages in North Carolina is in the spotlight Tuesday, a long-time senator could go down to defeat to a fellow Republican and Wisconsin voters pick their recalled governor's opponent.

Yannis Palaiologos and Theodore Pelagidis: Epect uncertainty and growing frustration as a new political landscape struggles to emerge