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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- The family of a murder victim has demanded an apology from a San Diego Superior Court judge who performed a wedding for the killer minutes after sentencing him to a lifetime in prison.     

US defence official quoted as saying Ibrahim Ali died in reported military strike in Somalia's Middle Juba region.

We are in desperate need of documentary filmmakers at Fukushima. The Japanese government is about to pass a national censorship law clearly meant to make it impossible to know what's going on there.

Mechanics discover girl aged 15-23 months in car boot, with reports saying she may have been there since birth.

As more and more allegations that the United States has been surveilling foreign officials come to light, President Obama has sought to distance himself and his administration from the activity by claiming they knew litt...

Five dead after civilian "self-defence" groups protest against stranglehold of Knights Templar on northern state.

Japan's defence minister says China's intrusions in East China Sea islands could lead to "emergency situation".

Autopsy shows Las Vegas toddler died after swallowing battery, coroner rules death accidental     

China's capital is perpetually wreathed in polluted air. Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde has a solution: get out the vacuum cleaner

NEW YORK (AP) -- Candles and flashlights will light up the shore along the East Coast as survivors of Superstorm Sandy pay their respects to what was lost when the storm roared ashore one year ago.     

Hotels say two suspects from Xinjiang named by Chinese police following deaths caused by car driving into pedestrians.

Actor and activist Sean Penn says he does not feel Edward Snowden is a real whistleblower.

In Xijiang, home to the Miao ethnic group, villagers perform a live show in a specially created outdoor amphitheater. Tourists seem to love it, but some older residents shudder.

The island and its immigration museum welcomed the public on Monday, meeting a deadline set by its superintendent and with some damage from Hurricane Sandy still to be fixed.     

AP source: US weighs ending spying on allied heads of state; no final decision has been made     

BASSETT, Calif. (AP) -- The upper half of a woman's body was found Monday at a Los Angeles County sewage plant and investigators believe her lower half turned up two days earlier at another plant some 30 miles away, auth...

Head of Senate intelligence panel, Dianne Feinstein, says it has not been informed of spying stretching back a decade.

Sheriff's Office: Deputy who shot and killed 13-year-old boy is a firearms instructor     

Discussion on the importance of the Preamble when interpreting the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Challenges modern assumptions in light of the stated purpose of the Constitution carefully outlined by the American foun...

This is the eighth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A research report says states can combat rising prison health care costs by expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, outsourcing and other measures.