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Investigators are studying an explosive device they say terrorists in Yemen crafted to slip past airport metal detectors and onto a U.S.-bound plane.

Europeans are revolting -- against their leaders and established political parties, against an austerity plan 'made in Germany', and against a future that promises declining living standards and shriveling public services.

International envoy Kofi Annan will brief the U.N. Security Council on the Syrian crisis Tuesday, a day after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the situation has become one of the "most serious and gravest concerns of the international community."

A fight over interest rates on federal student loans, which are scheduled to nearly double in July unless Congress acts, hits the Senate floor today.

A graphic video played at a hearing Monday to determine whether two California police officers should stand trial in the beating death of a homeless man showed them kicking and punching the mentally ill man as he lay on the ground -- screaming in pain and begging for help.

Local, state and federal authorities hunted across multiple states Monday for signs of a 35-year-old man who they consider "armed and dangerous" after he allegedly abducted a Tennessee mother and her three daughters.

A Washington think tank celebrated Prince Harry on Monday night for his humanitarian efforts, with the British royal set to deflect the praise by offering his own salute to wounded war veterans.

The day he returned to school from a three-day suspension, a Colorado first-grader and his family on Monday are still fighting his being disciplined for what the school labeled"sexual harassment" for quoting the song "Sexy and I Know It."

A nonmetallic explosive -- meant for a suicide bombing -- was recovered; it had similarities to one used in a failed attempt on a Detroit-bound jet in 2009, a U.S. official said.

Senate Republicans will block Democrats from taking up a White House-backed bill to cap rates on some student loans unless Democrats allow a vote on a GOP alternative, the second-ranking Senate Republican said Monday.

Eric Fehrnstrom, an advisor to Mitt Romney, says the campaign was disappointed by the resignation of a spokesman.

David Frum says that, through six years of campaigning for the presidency, presumptive GOP nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has allowed himself to be remade and redefined by his worst enemies.

Chris Lawrence and Nic Robertson describe the kind of bomb involved in a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound jet.

National security analyst Peter Bergen talks to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound jet.

U.S., Yemeni and other intelligence agencies broke up a plot to bomb a U.S. airliner around the anniversary of the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a U.S. counterrrorism official said Monday.

The attorney for a 101-year-old billionaire donor whose money is at the center of John Edwards' corruption trial told jurors Monday that his client knew the hundreds of thousands of dollars she gave the former U.S. presidential candidate was not a campaign contribution.

A decision on if researchers can study Junior Seau's brain for clues to the NFL veteran's suicide will wait until his family meets with elders from their Samoan culture, his family said Monday.

Two American hikers held in Iran and accused of spying after straying across the unmarked border there have been married in California, an attorney said.

The attorney for a 101-year-old billionaire donor whose money is at the center of John Edwards' corruption trial told jurors Monday that his client knew the hundreds of thousands of dollars she gave the former U.S. presidential candidate was not a campaign contribution.

A medical examiner is investigating the death of a 48-year-old stable worker named Adan Fabian Perez, a Guatemala native discovered in the back of a barn at Churchill Downs one day after the storied Louisville racetrack hosted the Kentucky Derby.