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The bodies of three more people killed when the Costa Concordia cruise ship sank were found Thursday, bringing to 28 the number of bodies located, Italian officials said.

William Bennett says increases in federal financial aid do not seem to improve college affordability

Three white Mississippi men pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes Thursday in connection with the 2011 beating death of an African-American man in Jackson, the Justice Department announced. Deryl Dedmon, John Aaron Rice and Dylan Butler each admitted to conspiracy and violating the 2009 federal hate-crimes law in last June's killing of James Craig Anderson. They face sentences of up to life in prison and $250,000 in fines, federal prosecutors said.

A painting dismissed for years as the work of an unknown artist has been identified as a piece by Vincent Van Gogh, after x-rays revealed an image of two wrestlers fighting underneath the floral still life.

SOPA appears to be dead. But the battle over Internet piracy is not.

The road back to the top of world golf is proving to be a long and arduous one for former world No. 1 Tiger Woods.

Christopher Wolf: When anyone can publish anything and it can be seen by millions, it's our responsibility to keep it from hurting others.

Zachary Weaver says that the N.R.A. supported Florida's "stand your ground" law, while law enforcement officers opposed it. The Martin tragedy exposes its problems

President Obama, speaking at a proposed new oil pipeline site, says that increased production in the U.S. "isn't enough to bring gas prices down overnight."

Renegade Malian soldiers declared Thursday that they have seized power in the nation and dissolved public institutions because of the government's handling of a growing insurgency in the north.

Mohammed Merah died from a shot to the head after police burst into the apartment of the man accused in terror attacks that left seven people dead, a prosecutor said.

With less than two weeks before federal money runs out for transportation projects across the country, a partisan showdown is developing between Senate Democrats and House Republicans over passing a new bill.

If there's a contest for worst travel experience of the year, United Airlines Flight 857 might be in the running.

A drug counselor at California high school pleaded not guilty Wednesday to secretly videotaping students engaged in sexual activity with each other, and to possessing child pornography.

"Jersey Shore" star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino confirmed Wednesday he is in a drug rehab program "to get control of a prescription medication problem I had due to exhaustion."

Ilyse Hogue says he won in Illinois by drawing once more on well-off, college-educated voters; he has a harder time attracting many others who see him as an emblem of the forces that sent the economy off a cliff

Even without the looming threat of civil war in Syria, flirting with a Middle Eastern ruler is dangerous business.

The New York Jets announced Wednesday that they have agreed on a trade with the Denver Broncos for quarterback Tim Tebow, who was displaced in Denver by superstar Peyton Manning.

Jason Russell, who directed a documentary about a notorious Ugandan warlord that went viral, will remain hospitalized "a number of weeks" to recover from "reactive psychosis," his family said Wednesday.

Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba did not respond to 15 defibrillator shocks and was in effect dead for 78 minutes before his heart started beating again, doctors who treated him have revealed.