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Florida's governor on Thursday will name a task force charged to examine the state's gun laws in the aftermath of the shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin.

India on Thursday launched the maiden test flight of its longest-range nuclear-capable missile, which can travel more than 5,000 kilometers, the Indian military said.

LZ Granderson says no matter how you feel about Ted Nugent's music or Obama's policies, Nuget crossed a line with his remarks.

A growing scandal over Secret Service agents using prostitutes in Colombia brings questions about a strong macho element in the service and how women agents fit in.

The company building the controversial Keystone XL pipeline has submitted a proposal for a new route, a spokesman for Nebraska's environmental authority said Wednesday.

Eight months after revealing her diagnosis with early-onset Alzheimer's, the head coach of the University of Tennessee's women's basketball team announced she was stepping down Wednesday.

Gloria Borger says Romney is likely to have learned a lesson from McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate

A Florida judge disqualified herself from the criminal case involving a neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

An appeal over singer Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and brief partial nudity on national television has reached the Supreme Court, the latest free speech episode over indecent, if fleeting, images and words on the public airwaves.

Sweden's culture minister was feeling the heat Wednesday after a weekend art exhibit in which she cut up a cake baked into the shape of a cartoonishly stereotyped African woman.

Anders Behring Breivik, who admits killing 77 people in Norway last summer, has been asked to stop raising his fist in salute each morning at his trial, his lawyer said Wednesday.

A friend of Pippa Middleton's, the sister-in-law of Britain's Prince William, apologized Wednesday for an incident in which a friend of his brandished a toy gun at press photographers in Paris.

Officials will search an area near a North Carolina bar where a missing Fort Bragg soldier was last seen and last used her cell phone four days ago.

After devoting seven years and tens of millions of dollars trying to convince conservatives that he is one of them, Mitt Romney finally has a firm grip on the Republican presidential nomination.

Fred Bayles: With Mitt Romney's candidacy now assured, the question is: Which Mitt will be running against Obama?

Mitt Romney got another expected but key endorsement Wednesday before heading to North Carolina to speak in the city where Democrats will nominate President Barack Obama for a second term later this year.

Photos of U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of suspected Afghan insurgents depict behavior that violates U.S. values, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.

South Africans woke up on Wednesday morning to the claim that a group of Soweto youths had filmed themselves raping a 17-year-old girl believed to be mentally ill.

Three U.S. Secret Service members have left or are being pushed out of the agency following a prostitution scandal that erupted in Colombia ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama, the agency said in a statement Wednesday.

Security forces fired at demonstrators in a Syrian city Wednesday while United Nations observers were visiting, activists said.