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Mexico revokes permits to build a controversial mega-resort in Baja California after environmentalists warned it could damage a nearby coral reef.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government has revealed details of serious allegations against Secret Service agents and officers since 2004, including claims of involvement with prostitutes, leaking sensitive information, publishing pornography, sexual assault, illegal wiretaps, improper use of weapons and drunken behavior. It wasn't immediately clear how many of the accusations have been confirmed....

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A former Army weapons expert pursued after the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend apparently killed himself with a gunshot to the head, quelling the risk of more bloodshed and silencing perhaps the only voice that might have answered the central question: What caused a gifted trauma surgeon widely beloved as a lifesaver to end his life in a spasm of violence?...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is partially lifting the lid of secrecy on its counterterrorism campaign against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia by formally acknowledging for the first time that it is conducting lethal attacks in those countries....

How has a character as static as Superman—who since 1938 has worn the same outfit, worked the same job, even kept the same haircut—remained popular through so many different eras? Will Leitch reviews Larry Tye's "Superman."

Novelist Richard Zimler on tales of outcasts and misfits, from Philip Roth's novel "I Married a Communist" to Aharon Appelfeld's "The Story of a Life," a memoir about hiding from the Nazis as a child during World War II.

Fifty years ago, a Frenchman and a German -- seared by the devastation of World War II -- forged an enterprise with the less than exciting name of the European Coal and Steel Community.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain said in an interview posted online Friday that "foreign money" was helping fellow Republican Mitt Romney's presidential hopes and singled out one of his ally's most generous supporters....

HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba lashed back Friday at what it called a campaign of distortions over the health of an imprisoned American contractor, and hinted at retaliation that could include transferring the 63-year-old man from the military hospital where he is being held to a regular prison....

MADISON, S.D. (AP) -- From the moment 73-year-old Carl Ericsson rang his old high school classmate's doorbell in January, verified the man's identity and then shot him dead, the question had been what prompted him to confront a man he hadn't even spoken to in years....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles County court system began handing out layoff notices Friday as plunging budgets set in motion major reductions....

Mac Slavo | CFR proposes that the U.S. Army be used to plan, command, and carry out (with the help of civilian law enforcement) domestic police missions.

Nik Wallenda, the seventh generation of the daredevil Flying Wallendas family, successfully crosses Niagara Falls on a two-inch tightrope.

Officials in Michigan and Canada announced Friday that they have agreed to build a new bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

Obama is the Flock of Seagulls of political oratory.

The Olympic torch sees another first on day 28 of its journey around the UK, making its away across the River Tyne on a zip wire in the hands of adventurer Bear Grylls.

The Olympic flame is flown by zip wire from the top of the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle by Chief Scout Bear Grylls.

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's decision to stop deporting some younger illegal immigrants will make it harder to solve the country's larger immigration problems. He did not say he would reverse the decision if elected....

Paramedics were called to Lindsay Lohan's Los Angeles hotel room when she did not wake up from a nap Friday morning, but the actress "is fine," her publicist said.