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Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and was taken to a hospital.

On Wednesday, the trial of Lori Drew, the adult who allegedly perpetrated the MySpace hoax that resulted in the eventual suicide of Megan Meier, began. Drew was indicted in May on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization. The charges each carry a maximum...

A 19-year-old has apparently committed suicide while filming himself on the online live-video streaming service Justin.TV. According to NewTeeVee, not only has the suicide been confirmed, but he was apparently egged on by commenters at both Justin.TV and BodyBuilding.com.

First-time filings for unemployment benefits shot up to their highest level since July 1992 last week, rising 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 and punctuating the struggling state of the U.S. labor market, government data showed Thursday.

Wall Street doubled down on its losses on Thursday, just a day after financial markets closed at their lowest point in nearly six years.

In the first hearing on the government's justification for holding detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years and ordered their release.

Democratic leaders in Congress sidetracked legislation to bail out the auto industry Thursday and demanded the Big Three develop a plan assuring the money would make them economically viable.

November 20th begins the 32nd annual Great American Smokeout. While smoking is an addiction, and thus difficult or even near impossible to stop, there are many reasons to quit --- and I shouldn't have to tell you them.

A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center. Cheney, Gonzales and the others will not be arrested, and do not need to appear...

The U.S. Defense Department told Congress it could ill-afford more top-of-the-line F-22 fighter aircraft than now in the pipeline, partly to protect another Lockheed Martin Corp fighter, the multinational F-35.

Continued purchases of the radar-evading F-22 could "jeopardize the Department's ability to procure the F-35 in the quantities required to...