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A former Rutgers University student convicted of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate says he was not bullying his roommate and he doesn't hate gay people.

Whitney Houston drowned in a bathtub, but "atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use" were contributing factors, coroner says.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales could face the death penalty for the Afghanistan killings, the U.S. military said. Officials have said nine children were among the civilians slain.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, skipped out on paying nearly $1.5 million to an elderly client, according to financial records.

Mississippi's attorney general Thursday again asked the state Supreme Court to overturn some 200 pardons, including those of convicted murderers, issued by former Gov. Haley Barbour in January during his last days in office.

Current and former neighbors call George Zimmerman caring, passionate and polite, a regular guy they enjoyed being around.

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder related to a March 11 shooting spree in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official said.

Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee announced Thursday he is stepping down "temporarily" as head of the department, which has been criticized for its handling of the fatal shooting last month of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer.

Sherrilyn Ifill says that all that Sybrina Fulton asks for are answers and justice for the death of her son, Trayvon Martin.

LZ Granderson says the way police have mishandled the Trayvon Martin killing shows less interest in learning the truth and more interest in covering up. For the black community, this is familiar territory

Frida Ghitis says the Toulouse killings highlight a phenomenon that Europe should be paying attention to: a tolerance for anti-Semitism when it comes couched in pro-Palestinian rhetoric

Your Facebook password is none of your new boss' business.

"Excited" after a meeting Thursday with Mitt Romney, tea party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint urged fellow Republicans to be realistic and rally around the party's eventual nominee, making his plea the same day the ex-governor's chief rival suggested voters would be as well off with President Barack Obama as they would Romney.

The bodies of three more people killed when the Costa Concordia cruise ship sank were found Thursday, bringing to 28 the number of bodies located, Italian officials said.

James Capretta calls the GOP budget plan a vision for how to reform the key pillars of the American social contract in the 21st century.

Excited" after a meeting Thursday with Mitt Romney, tea party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint urged fellow Republicans to be realistic and rally around the party's eventual nominee.

Led by its Republican majority, the U.S. House voted Thursday to eliminate from the 2010 health care reform law a proposed advisory board that would recommend how to achieve needed, but as-yet-unreachable Medicare savings.

A politically active Marine who has questioned President Barack Obama's authority said Thursday he is facing administrative discharge proceedings over his comments.

William Bennett says increases in federal financial aid do not seem to improve college affordability

Three white Mississippi men pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes Thursday in connection with the 2011 beating death of an African-American man in Jackson, the Justice Department announced. Deryl Dedmon, John Aaron Rice and Dylan Butler each admitted to conspiracy and violating the 2009 federal hate-crimes law in last June's killing of James Craig Anderson. They face sentences of up to life in prison and $250,000 in fines, federal prosecutors said.