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A man suspected of shooting an officer and stabbing a judge at a Washington state courthouse was arrested Saturday when his mother told authorities where they could find him.

Star New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees wrote a letter to fans, saying he was never aware of the infamous bounty program that his team had admitted to taking part in.

Israeli airstrikes over two days kill at least 15 Palestinians. Israel says the strikes are in response to more than 90 rocket attacks from Gaza.

Actor Michael Madsen was arrested after getting in a scuffle with his teenage son Friday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

A mother of 10 who threw a birthday party for her 5-year-old daughter at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in suburban Houston, Texas, apparently forgot about the girl, went home without her and failed to realize her mistake until the next day, police said Friday.

"The thing that kind of brought it to a head was I was overworking myself," Nick Cannon told Piers Morgan. The entertainer thought he was just suffering from a bad cold at the time, telling the CNN host, "My body went into overload."

Two Palestinians were killed and one was critically injured Friday after an Israeli airstrike against a car in Gaza City, according to Palestinian medical officials.

SWAT teams in western Washington state were looking for a man who fled a courthouse Friday after a judge was stabbed in the neck and a female officer was shot, officials said.

President Barack Obama's rebuke of Republicans who are "beating the drums of war" in encouraging the United States to take military action against Iran should be targeted not just toward those critics but also, and more important, toward the Israeli government.

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney looked past his GOP opponents and focused squarely on President Barack Obama on Friday, calling the president's new campaign film a misleading "infomercial" that ignores a slew of alleged administration failures.

As an American Airlines plane taxied for takeoff at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Friday morning, a flight attendant told passengers on the plane's intercom that the plane was likely to crash, alluded to the September 11 terrorist attacks and complained about union issues, officials said.

A detention center housing 3,000 people will move to Afghan control, removing a key sticking point in the way of a larger agreement on the future U.S. role.

A threatened Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program carries enormous risks for the Jewish state, including international isolation, retaliation at home and abroad, and steep economic costs.

Dean Obeidallah asks whether the Department of Homeland Security's surveillance of social media websites is an invasion of our privacy.

The Nigerian president on Friday blamed a militant Islamist terror group for the killing of two Europeans during a failed rescue attempt in the country.

The campaigns of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney don't agree on much. But on one subject, officials from both sides are in sync.

Brian Flynn says you can blame the low opinion most Americans have of Congress on the fact that it has become increasingly unrepresentative

Special envoy Kofi Annan will meet Saturday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus "to seek an urgent end to all violence," his spokesman said.

Jimmy Ellis, who belted out the dance anthem "Disco Inferno" in the 1970s for The Trammps, died Thursday in South Carolina, the funeral home handling arrangements said.

A newborn baby was found dead Thursday in the trunk of a car in southern Maryland, authorities said.