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Dean Obeidallah says the candidates would like to sell themselves as super heroes for the economy. The truth is not that simple, and voters know it

The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial enters its fourth day of deliberations Wednesday.

Officials from six world powers are due to hold talks with Iranian representatives in Baghdad on Wednesday about Tehran's controversial nuclear program.

Russia test-fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, a move that comes amid tensions about a recent NATO announcement that it placed an interim missile defense shield in Europe.

Two women and three men that were working for an aid group were kidnapped in a remote area of Afghanistan this week, authorities said.

Nancy Reagan is recovering from a number of broken ribs after a fall in March, a representative for the former first lady said Tuesday.

Egyptians are expected Wednesday to begin voting in an historic presidential election, capping for some the popular uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak more than a year ago.

The desperate search in Portland, Maine, for a Harvard Business School student missing since Sunday ended in heartbreak after his body was found just days before he was to graduate.

The uproar last week over a proposed campaign ad highlighting President Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, lit up political circles before organizers finally backed off the idea.

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

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.

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.

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.