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A Barack Obama adviser resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster."
It's not just subprime loans. These days, just about anyone holding a piece of the roughly $27 trillion in securities backed by debt is asking: Just how much are these things worth?
Two firefighters have been killed fighting a massive fire at a wood millworks in central North Carolina.
The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela agreed Friday to resolve their angry recriminations over a cross-border Colombian commando raid, a crisis that has brought troop movements and talk of war.
For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence. The government has agreed to pay the girl’s family for injury caused by vaccines.
Thousands of Israelis gathered outside a bullet-scarred rabbinical seminary on Friday to begin funeral processions for 8 students killed by a suspected Palestinian gunman.
Law enforcement officials tell NBC News they believe they have identified the man who sent letters to several Capitol Hill offices that contained a photo of the Times Square military recruiting office before it was bombed and the words "We Did It."
In 2 1/2 years, just as the international space station gets fully assembled, the United States will no longer have any spacecraft of its own capable of carrying astronauts and cargo to the station, in which roughly $100 billion is being invested. The three space shuttles will be retired by then, because of their high cost and questionable safety, and NASA will have nothing ready to replace them until 2015 at the earliest.
Defense lawyers say a Nevada judge has agreed to delay O.J. Simpson's trial on armed robbery and kidnapping charges to Sept. 8.
Employers slashed jobs by 63,000 in February, the most in five years. It was the starkest sign yet the country is heading dangerously toward recession or in one already.
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry says it has expelled the U.S. ambassador and recalled its ambassador to the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service investigators involved in Roger Clemens’ perjury case are now turning their attention to the Houston, Texas area to see if the seven-time Cy Young award winner obtained steroids or human growth hormone there.
Angelina Jolie might have skipped out on the Night Before party before the Oscars because she didn't want to hurt Jennifer Aniston's feelings, said her brother James Haven.
A Florida mother caught on tape using a pressurized hose at a car wash to discipline her toddler daughter could end up in hot water after police meet Friday to consider filing child endangerment charges.
Immigration-related prostitution cases raise complex questions about the interplay of local and federal law and are likely to pose special challenges. The Prince William County police department has said it will treat illegal immigrants who are criminals differently from those who are crime victims. But in prostitution cases, the women involved might be both.
The Federal Reserve said Friday it is taking bigger steps to ease the United States' credit crisis, including increasing the amount of money it will auction to banks this month to $100 billion (euro64.86 billion).
Waris Dirie, the Somali-born supermodel and former James Bond girl who launched a worldwide campaign against female genital mutilation, has been found by police in central Brussels three days after she disappeared, says Estelle Arpigny, spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office.
The dollar sank to a new low Friday against the euro, which extended its first-ever rise above $1.54 after data showed U.S. job cuts hitting the biggest monthly number in five years.
Most people probably think they stop eating when they're full. However, research comparing separate groups from Chicago and Paris found some surprising results.
A Canadian man thought he had come up with the perfect romantic setting to propose to his high school sweetheart until airport security got involved.