News and Politics (U.S.)

A third woman will make false sexual accusations against Herman Cain, the GOP presidential candidate told CNN Monday.

Refusing to leave their camp at Los Angeles' City Hall, Occupy protesters were seeking a federal court injunction to block their removal.

A small plane with five people on board crashed in Lincolnshire, Illinois, on Monday night. Two people are believed dead.

Syracuse University's basketball team will hit the court Tuesday night, the team's first home game since assistant coach Bernie Fine was fired over allegations of sexual abuse of boys.

A man who allegedly shot his ex-wife and seven other people to death in the deadliest shooting in Orange County, California, will be arraigned Tuesday.

Gary Giordano, a U.S. citizen held in Aruba in connection with the disappearance of a Maryland woman, is expected to be set free Tuesday after weeks in detention.

Dr. Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, will be sentenced Tuesday.

Orlando's police chief on Monday named a Florida man as the "primary suspect" in the case of the man's missing ex-fiancee, who hasn't been seen since the two appeared on an episode of "The People's Court."

Asbai Ramirez had toiled for months as a U.S. soldier in Iraq. But it was his 7,000-mile trip home -- racing against the clock to his wife's bedside, for the birth of their baby -- that he described Monday as "pretty intense."

Two more students surrendered Monday, making the grand total 20 arrests in a SAT/ACT scandal, according to the Nassau County, New York district attorney's office.

Isobel Coleman says Libya has strong economic prospects, a well-educated population and some leaders with progressive ideas, but it may be a difficult transition from dictatorship to democracy

If the recent CNN/Western Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas was any indication, the coming months on the campaign trail are likely to be nasty between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.

The Senate is expected Thursday to have its first vote on a component of President Barack Obama's jobs bill -- $35 billion for states and localities to hire more teachers and first responders while preventing current ones from being laid off.

Democrats and Republicans tried to force versions of a jobs bill through the Senate late Thursday, but both fell short of the 60 votes they would have needed to bring their proposals to the floor.

David Gergen and Michael Zuckerman say the Libyan dictator's demise isn't likely to greatly boost President Obama's standing, although it provides some grist for his campaign.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will continue "frank" talks with Pakistani officials Friday, a day after urging the nation's prime minister to strengthen efforts to combat terrorism, senior State Department officials said.

Cross-examination of the prosecution's anesthesiology expert is crucial for Dr. Conrad Murray, but his defense team's most knowledgeable lawyer when it comes to propofol will sit on the sideline Friday.

After missing her first day of community service at the Los Angeles County morgue, actress Lindsay Lohan gets a second chance to appear on time Friday.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three immigrant women who were allegedly sexually assaulted while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas, the American Civil Liberties Union said this week.

The United States is committed to the Libyan people and will support their democratic transition after Moammar Gadhafi's death, President Obama said Thursday, adding: "You have won your revolution."