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Authorities in Santa Monica, California, fatally shot a mountain lion Tuesday, acting on public safety concerns after it tried to escape from an office building courtyard in the city.

Two men accused of murdering an Irish teacher on her honeymoon last year pleaded not guilty when they appeared in court in Mauritius on Tuesday, police on the Indian Ocean island said.

An Alabama women's prison is the focus of a formal complaint filed with the Justice Department on Tuesday that alleges male guards for years engaged in the widespread sexual abuse of female inmates, according to a nonprofit group called The Equal Justice Initiative.

Catherine Crump says the poorly understood relationship between cellphone companies and police raises grave privacy concerns

LZ Granderson says the storyline that the black and gay communities are separate is nonsense. Gays have always been a big part of black culture.

CNN's Erin Burnett honors an older generation of leaders she met at this year's fiscal summit.

A year since a tornado destroyed a third of Joplin, Missouri, three iReporters revisit the scenes of destruction they witnessed in May 2011 and reflect on the recovery process.

A passenger who said she had a surgically implanted device inside her prompted a security scare that led to the diversion of a North Carolina-bound jet, officials said.

It will cover 2.8 million square feet and have its own power plant inside its massive, gleaming circular design.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is threatening legal action over the online sale of a vial purportedly containing dried blood from the former president following a 1981 assassination attempt.

The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to tighten sanctions on Iran on Monday, three days after a dispute over including the threat of American force stalled the legislation.

Barbara Comstock, an adviser to the Romney campaign says Cory Booker was creatively edited by the White House.

A year ago this week, a monster tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, leaving 161 people dead and hundreds more injured.

The head of the IAEA says he will sign an agreement soon with Iran over its nuclear program. World powers and Iran gather in Baghdad for talks on Wednesday.

The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial will begin a third day of deliberations Tuesday after asking to take another look at a batch of exhibits from the four-week case.

On the blank canvas left behind by last year's tornado, new homes are slowly popping up in Joplin, Missouri. Every few blocks the buzz of power saws and the pop-pop-pop of nail guns from construction crews signal another step toward making the city whole again.

Otis Brawley says a new report shows that years of routine, mass prostate cancer screening has brought more risk than benefit--but not for the medical industry that has grown up around it

A new era in space exploration dawned Tuesday as a slender rocket shot into the dark Florida sky before sunrise, carrying the first private spacecraft bound for the International Space Station.

You know that bit in "The Avengers" where Tony Stark spreads his fingers apart in mid-air and the stuff on the screen in front of him instantly appears on displays throughout the room?

At least 13 people are dead after a train crash in India early Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the ministry of railways said.