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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Five men described by federal authorities as anarchists angry with corporate America and the government were charged Tuesday with plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge linking two wealthy Cleveland suburbs....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The wife of a former aide to John Edwards rebuffed questions Tuesday about whether she has any incentive to lie to hurt the former presidential candidate....

HAVANA (AP) -- After controlling its citizens comings and goings for five decades, Cuba appears on the verge of a momentous decision to end many travel restrictions, with one senior official saying a "radical and profound" change is weeks away....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is headed to Beijing, scene of a tense human rights showdown as activists say talks are continuing between China and the U.S. over the fate of a blind Chinese lawyer who escaped house arrest....

MADRID (AP) -- On the front lines of May Day protests this year, along with the traditional chants, banners and marches, a gamut of emotions flowed through the crowds....

News Corporation criticises a key conclusion of a parliamentary report - that Rupert Murdoch is not "fit" to run the business - as "unjustified".

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The most visible organizing effort by anti-Wall Street groups since Occupy encampments were dismantled last fall were planned for May Day, a change from recent years when protests on the international workers' holiday focused on immigrant rights....

Figures obtained by the Labour Party reveal a 10% cut in the number of UK Border Force staff over the past two years.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- After fierce fighting in Mali's capital Tuesday, troops loyal to the junta overran the main camp of the soldiers who tried to oust them in a countercoup....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a new ad Tuesday accusing Republican Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs and slamming him for keeping money in foreign bank accounts....

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) -- Lance Brown was hungry and homeless, so he decided to get thrown in jail by hurling a brick through a glass door at the Columbus courthouse building....

WaPo: Profiled at airport? There's an app for that:

A Sikh advocacy group launched a free mobile application Monday that allows travelers to complain immediately to the government if they feel they’ve been treated unfairly by airport screeners. Launched at midnight Monday by the Sikh Coalition, the FlyRights app had fielded two complaints by 10 a.m.

Concert organisers have confirmed 'several' people suffered injuries as US teen group Mindless Behavior cut short a gig in London.

BEIJING (AP) -- The blind activist at the center of a diplomatic tussle between the U.S. and China did not set out to be a dissident. Chen Guangcheng taught himself law to defend the constitutional rights he saw trampled so often....

BEIJING (AP) -- The blind activist at the center of a diplomatic tussle between the U.S. and China did not set out to be a dissident. Chen Guangcheng taught himself law to defend the constitutional rights he saw trampled so often....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says a letter sent to the Department of Agriculture had no threats and was not a hazard.

Agents on Tuesday investigated a report of a suspicious letter at the building at 14th Street and Independence Avenue Southwest.

FBI spokesman Andrew Ames said the letter was ...

Sven-Goran Eriksson urges fans to back his friend Roy Hodgson and insists he will be a big success as England manager.

ACLU news release: Government Settles Charity’s Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Terrorism Probe:

The U.S. Treasury Department has settled a lawsuit brought by KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, an Ohio-based charity that was under investigation for alleged ties to terrorism.

After a string of legal victories for the group, including court findings that the government’s actions violated its due process and Fourth Amendment rights, the government has agreed to remove it from a blacklist and let it distribute funds raised for humanitarian causes consistent with the intent of donors. Details of the agreement were announced today.

This is the first time the government has agreed to de-list a frozen organization as a result of a lawsuit, and to then allow it to distribute its assets.

The last Kindhearts case is here.

Keith Ellison says: We accomplished our mission in Afghanistan; bin Laden is dead, al Qaeda is scattered. For the sake of our economy and security, it's time to leave.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Exhibit 52C was the semi-crushed Miller Lite beer can. Exhibit 52D was the FedEx box that once contained the beer can. Then came exhibits of gauze, tissues, syringes, cotton balls and needles, some of which were once inside the beer can, using up letters of the alphabet all the way to X....