Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch received a strong endorsement from the board of directors of his News Corp. on Wednesday, a day after British lawmakers investigating a phone hacking scandal said Murdoch was "not a fit person" to run a major international company.

A U.S. drone hit an al Qaeda training site in southern Yemen, killing 13 suspected militants, three security officials said.

Syrian forces raided a university Thursday, the opposition said, the latest sign of continuing attacks despite a truce implemented three weeks ago and the presence of United Nations monitors in the country.

The trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards took a dramatic turn Wednesday when his daughter abruptly left the courtroom during testimony about a fight between her mother and father over his affair with a campaign videographer.

Two farms have been quarantined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the agency continues to investigate last month's discovery of mad cow disease at a California dairy farm.

Chen Guangcheng says he regrets leaving the refuge of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and is pleading for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help him get to the United States.

Authorities have filed charges against 13 people in what they call the hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion.

A San Diego student sues for damages after he was left handcuffed and without food or water in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for 5 days.

A 2010 video of an airport screener patting down a 3-year-old boy in a wheelchair has become the latest Rorschach test of the public's attitude toward the TSA.

The Syrian regime launched a new assault on Rastan early Tuesday, shelling a city already marred by rockets in recent weeks, an opposition group said.

The bodies of the four victims of the Jewish school shooting in France will be flown to Israel for a burial.

John Avlon says the Republican contest comes to a state filled with GOP history, but one where moderates are in retreat

The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians was not drunk but doesn't remember what happened and is in shock, his attorney tells CBS News.

A spate of car bombings rocked Iraq on Tuesday on the the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and days before the nation hosts a meeting of Arab leaders.

A judge declared a mistrial Monday in actress Nicollette Sheridan's wrongful termination lawsuit against "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry and ABC.

His parents say they believe race was a factor in the shooting by a neighborhood watch volunteer, who says he was acting in self-defense.

A teacher was gunned down along with his two children at a Jewish school in southern France, while the director of the school saw his daughter killed in front of him.

A tornado touched down near Natalia, a city in south-central Texas on Monday, the National Weather Service said, as a slow-moving line of storms swept eastward, bringing with it the threat of high winds, heavy rains and large hail.

Federal prosecutors and the FBI have opened an investigation into the killing of an unarmed teen by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida, a Justice Department spokesman said.

A search-and-rescue team on Monday found the body of a missing hot air balloonist who crashed in Georgia three days earlier.