May 20, 2012 12:32PM

Lockerbie families still seek answers from Libya

For relatives of the people who died in the Lockerbie bombing, the death Sunday of the only man who was convicted stirred up questions once again about his guilt and whether others went unpunished.

May 20, 2012 11:29AM

Afghan Karzai: Thanks for ?your taxpayers? money?

Looking to a day when "the Afghan war as we understand it is over," President Barack Obama met Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to discuss NATO's withdrawal from that strife-torn country by the end of 2014. Obama, who has put the draw-down of combat troops at the heart of his foreign policy, declared that "the [...]

May 20, 2012 01:00PM

Booker slams Obama ad attacking Romney?s Bain record

Newark Mayor Cory Booker slammed the Obama campaign's ad criticizing Mitt Romney's record as the head of Bain Capital, and called for an end to"nauseating" attacks from both sides. "I have to just say from a very personal level, I'm not about to sit here and indict private equity," Booker, a Democrat, said in an [...]

May 20, 2012 08:16AM

Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya hospital

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, has died, the Libyan government said on Sunday. He was 60. The bombing of the Dec. 21, 1988 Pan Am transatlantic flight to New York from London as it flew over [...]

May 20, 2012 09:57AM

Protesters stream into Chicago park for NATO march

A diverse crowd of protesters began streaming into a downtown Chicago park Sunday for one of the city's largest demonstrations in years ? a march to the lakeside convention center hosting a historic NATO summit.

May 20, 2012 08:46AM

Earthquake kills at least seven in Italy

At least seven people died and 50 were injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck northern Italy early Sunday, authorities there said. According to CNN, two ceramic factory workers were killed in Sant'Agostino di Ferrara, another in a shed collapse in Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno, and three others in under rubble in various locations. Among the [...]

May 20, 2012 11:48AM

White House: Megrahi death closes ?unfortunate chapter?

The White House said Sunday that the death of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi closed "an unfortunate chapter" that opened when Scotland freed the former Libyan intelligence officer on humanitarian grounds in 2009. "We have received confirmation from the Libyan government that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi died earlier today," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor [...]

May 20, 2012 10:33AM

For NY farmers, fracking could mean salvation -- or ruin

When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept ...

May 20, 2012 08:05AM

Facebook stock limps into Monday: What's next after IPO?

Facebook resumes trading on Wall Street on Monday with shares being closely watched to see how well they stand on their own after stumbling out of the gate in a historic but lackluster debut.

May 20, 2012 05:47AM

Pelosi defends Dems' Rev. Wright fundraising appeal

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi defended the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on "This Week" for sending a fundraising email that attempted to capitalize on the apparently dead advertising plan to link President Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright.