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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has agreed to end her nearly three-week hunger strike and receive medical treatment, her spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Three months before he was killed by a U.S. drone strike, Fahd al Quso, one of al Qaeda's top operatives in Yemen, spoke at length to a local journalist. He was asked why al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had stopped plotting against the United States. Was it because all efforts were devoted to an internal project?

A 60-year-old man attempting to fly from Baltimore to Tampa, Florida, this weekend is facing charges for attempting to board a plane with a loaded gun, the Transportation Security Administration says.

Dick Lugar will lose Indiana's GOP Senate primary to Richard Mourdock, CNN projects. Mourdock had the tea party's support against Lugar, a foreign policy expert.

Kent H. Hughes says that traders will benefit from a period of volatility while long-term investors will do fine

A left-wing coalition that opposes austerity will try to form a new government in Greece starting Tuesday, after the center-right party that came first in elections gave up on Monday.

Yvonne Walker says 401(k)s can tip retirees into poverty, and that innovative plans providing guaranteed retirement income are needed

Yannis Palaiologos and Theodore Pelagidis: Epect uncertainty and growing frustration as a new political landscape struggles to emerge

Investigators are studying an explosive device they say terrorists in Yemen crafted to slip past airport metal detectors and onto a U.S.-bound plane.

Europeans are revolting -- against their leaders and established political parties, against an austerity plan 'made in Germany', and against a future that promises declining living standards and shriveling public services.

International envoy Kofi Annan will brief the U.N. Security Council on the Syrian crisis Tuesday, a day after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the situation has become one of the "most serious and gravest concerns of the international community."

A fight over interest rates on federal student loans, which are scheduled to nearly double in July unless Congress acts, hits the Senate floor today.

A graphic video played at a hearing Monday to determine whether two California police officers should stand trial in the beating death of a homeless man showed them kicking and punching the mentally ill man as he lay on the ground -- screaming in pain and begging for help.

Local, state and federal authorities hunted across multiple states Monday for signs of a 35-year-old man who they consider "armed and dangerous" after he allegedly abducted a Tennessee mother and her three daughters.

A Washington think tank celebrated Prince Harry on Monday night for his humanitarian efforts, with the British royal set to deflect the praise by offering his own salute to wounded war veterans.

The day he returned to school from a three-day suspension, a Colorado first-grader and his family on Monday are still fighting his being disciplined for what the school labeled"sexual harassment" for quoting the song "Sexy and I Know It."

A nonmetallic explosive -- meant for a suicide bombing -- was recovered; it had similarities to one used in a failed attempt on a Detroit-bound jet in 2009, a U.S. official said.

The attorney for a 101-year-old billionaire donor whose money is at the center of John Edwards' corruption trial told jurors Monday that his client knew the hundreds of thousands of dollars she gave the former U.S. presidential candidate was not a campaign contribution.

A decision on if researchers can study Junior Seau's brain for clues to the NFL veteran's suicide will wait until his family meets with elders from their Samoan culture, his family said Monday.

Two American hikers held in Iran and accused of spying after straying across the unmarked border there have been married in California, an attorney said.