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The University of Arkansas has puts its head football coach, Bobby Petrino, on paid administrative leave after news that the passenger on the motorcycle he crashed this week was a 25-year-old female member of his staff.

A Texas judge sentenced a Mexican drug gang leader to life in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to murder and weapons charges related to the killing of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband, officials said.

An emotional Hugo Chavez discussed his struggle with cancer Thursday night, tearing up at times as he spoke at a Mass in western Venezuela.

At the turn of the last century, a New York bakery owner named Joseph Lochner decided he wanted his employees to work longer hours than state law allowed.

Updated tallies show 349 homes were leveled and 750 were damaged by the tornadoes that tore through the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Tuesday.

Stan Brock made a name for himself by lassoing animals on "Wild Kingdom," an educational television series that aired in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Today, he runs a nonprofit that provides free health care to people all over the world.

Libya must make arrangements to hand over Saif al-Islam Gadhafi to the International Criminal Court immediately, court officials said Thursday, complaining that the son of Libya's deposed leader has been mistreated and "physically attacked" since he was captured last year.

President Obama on Thursday made clear his view on the membership of women at the Augusta National Golf Club: They should be admitted.

George Zimmerman told his lawyers that he whispered "punks," not a racial slur, in the moments before he killed Trayvon Martin, his lawyers said.

Press Secretary Jay Carney comments on President Obama's remark about judicial precedent and the Court of Appeals.

Get out Rick, a growing Republican chorus says. Forget it, responds Rick Santorum to the calls to drop his increasingly long-shot bid for the GOP presidential nomination. The pressure to withdraw is actually incentive for Santorum to stay in the race.

Get out Rick, a growing Republican chorus says. Forget it, responds Rick Santorum to the calls to drop his increasingly long-shot bid for the GOP presidential nomination.

Apple is investigating several issues with its new iPad's Wi-Fi connectivity, according to an internal AppleCare document unearthed by MacRumors.

The Justice Department obeyed a federal appeals court's unusual order Thursday in a legal and political spat over the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.

Jeffrey Toobin discusses a federal court's request that the Justice Dept explain Obama's SCOTUS health care comments.

Brian Todd reports on the public political battle between President Obama and the courts over the health care debate.

Administration lawyers met a deadline to file a letter affirming the government's stance that federal courts have the authority to decide the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned news channel says it let journalists hack into e-mail accounts twice because it was "in the public interest."

President Obama and Mitt Romney make claims on key issues. CNN's Wolf Blitzer separates the facts from the fiction.

Mississippi lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would require any physician performing abortions in the state to be a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and to have admitting privileges at an area hospital.