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Gunfire rang out outside a Miami funeral home, killing two people and injuring 12 others, police said.

In the six months since the repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, many of the most prestigious military institutions in the country are adding a student group to their club rosters that they had never seen before: gay pride groups.

Rep. Bobby Rush's hoodie on the House floor sure got attention.

The public drama surrounding the Supreme Court's extraordinary three-day review of President Obama's health care reform law has faded, but the real intrigue has just begun.

Current TV's co-founders, including former Vice President Al Gore, announced Friday that the network has ousted its highest-profile on-air personality, Keith Olbermann.

Catherine Lord says the new CDC study is striking in showing the variability in terms of region, gender, race and ethnicity

At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 wounded following a pair of explosions Saturday in the southern Thai city of Yala, Thai media reported.

Civil rights leaders join hundreds of protesters carrying "Justice for Trayvon" signs, as they march in Sanford, Florida, to demand the arrest of the teen's killer.

The leader of an Islamist group whose members were targeted in a series of French police raids denies any contact with Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah, lawyer Philippe Missamou said Saturday.

Syrian forces clashed with military defectors early Saturday morning, storming several neighborhoods and bombarding them with heavy gunfire, activists said.

There's a new polar bear on the block -- meet Anori, half-sister to Knut, who made her public debut this week at Wuppertal Zoo in Germany.

Investigators found the blood of Susan Powell, the mother of two who went missing in 2009, inside the family's Utah home and a handwritten will saying she feared for her life at the hands of her husband, court documents show.

Holders of three winning Mega Millions tickets will split Friday night's record $656 million jackpot. Two of those tickets were purchased in states where winners can remain anonymous.

There would be no special prosecutor, no grand jury, no release of 911 tapes in the Trayvon Martin case had thousands across the national not mobilized, organized and took to the streets to demand justice, Roland Martin says.

Former Soviet spy Leonid Shebarshin, who was very briefly head of the KGB, was found dead Friday in his apartment in Moscow, an apparent suicide, officials said.

Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Sonora have arrested eight people accused of killing two boys and one woman as human sacrifices for Santa Muerte -- the saint of death -- officials said Friday.

The national conversation over Trayvon Martin's killing is loud and intense. In some places, it's also vile and violent.

The Mega Millions jackpot is the largest ever offered that could be won by an individual, causing long lines at convenience stores ahead of the drawing at 11 p.m. ET.

Current TV's co-founders, including former Vice President Al Gore, announced Friday that the network has ousted its highest-profile on-air personality, Keith Olbermann.

It was a Friday evening in February when Adrian Vasquez, an 18-year-old from the town of Rio Hato, Panama, accepted an invitation from two friends to accompany them on what was proposed as an overnight fishing expedition.