Three years after gridlock paralyzed a New Jersey town next to the busy George Washington Bridge for four days, a federal jury will begin considering whether it was a criminal conspiracy cooked up by two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie for political revenge.
Charmian Carr, the actress best known for sweetly portraying the eldest von Trapp daughter in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music," has died. She was 73.
The day the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement triumphed in Rome's mayoral election, its exultant founder, comic Beppe Grillo, immediately turned his supporters' sights on the next destination for what he calls their "mission impossible airplane" — soaring into national power.
Thai officials say searchers have recovered 18 bodies and are continuing to look for 12 people missing from a boat that sank in a river over the weekend.
The Paris prosecutor's office is investigating a hoax hostage alert that prompted a major police intervention at a church in the center of the French capital.
A three-way coalition of Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Left Party seems likely in Berlin, after Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party endured a set-back in state elections in the German capital.
The Latest on the developments in Syria, where a Russia-U.S.-brokered cease-fire, now in its seventh day, is hanging in the balance after numerous violations (all times local): 11:35 a.m.
Toxic algae has shown up in more than 40 state lakes and waterways from Los Angeles to the northern reaches of California, the highest count in state history.
The governor of Georgia said Sunday his office hasn't received any complaints of gas shortages within the state after a pipeline spill in central Alabama but some gas station employees have said they've had to close because they're out.