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A leading senator said she was told up to 21 women were involved, and she questioned whether the incident in Colombia could have endangered the president.

The last five bodies recovered from the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner have been identified, the mayor's office in the Italian city of Grosseto said Tuesday.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the new measures he announced to limit speculation in oil markets will make amends to consumers for congressional Republicans blocking an end to subsidies for oil corporations.

Police in Georgia defended their decision Tuesday to handcuff and arrest a six-year-old elementary student after the school called to report a juvenile had assaulted a principal and was damaging school property.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the new measures he announced to limit speculation in oil markets will make amends to consumers for congressional Republicans blocking an end to subsidies for oil corporations.

With just 3,700 residents in Red Bud, Illinois, Denise Metzger is using the process of elimination to guess who bought a lottery ticket now worth $218 million at her convenience store last month.

At the hearing exploring the GSA spending scandal, Rep. Jeff Denham vows that people will be held accountable.

John Avlon says simplification and reform of the byzantine tax code runs into a partisan brick wall every time it's tried. Taxpayers? They get nothing.

Under pressure to bring down the high price of gas, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder will outline a proposal Tuesday to increase federal supervision of the oil markets in an effort to clip the wings of speculators who are profiting off the volatility of the oil market.

The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in Norway last summer, is underway in Oslo.

The president outlines his plan for protecting the oil market from speculators and manipulators.

At least 140 Afghan schoolgirls and female teachers were admitted to a local hospital after their drinking water was poisoned, health officials say, laying the blame on extremists opposed to women's education.

A Michigan woman who won a million-dollar lottery but continued to receive welfare benefits is now charged with fraud, the attorney general said Tuesday.

More details emerge in the tale of spending and travel abuses at the General Services Administration, including an $800,000 conference at a Las Vegas casino, fake award ceremonies to get around regulations and "scouting visits" to Las Vegas by officials and family members.

The beginning of the U.N. observer mission to Syria heralds a new phase in more than a year of upheaval across the country. But such is the polarization in Syria that most analysts see the mission as the least worst option before violence sets the agenda again.

Scientists recorded continuing volcanic activity Tuesday in Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, which sits just southeast of Mexico City and its more than 19 million residents.

A baby endures President Obama, President Bush proves he is literate and Rick Santorum eyes his next objective.

Well over a year after Congress voluntarily imposed a ban on pork barrel spending, the number and cost of earmarks have dropped dramatically, a report said Tuesday -- but the snouts are not out of the trough altogether.

CNN explains the importance and stress of tax day, when it originated and what happens if you don't take it seriously.

After a preliminary report detailed abuses, and after a final report that showed Jeff Neely may have illegally wasted funds, no one stopped him from taking more trips.