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A U.S. serviceman was among six victims of an early morning shooting at a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, strip club Wednesday, officials said.

California parole officers "missed numerous opportunities" to discover long-missing Jaycee Dugard while supervising the man now accused of kidnapping and raping her, a state review of the case concludes.

Poverty-stricken Gaza where even the most basic goods are in short supply has spawned its very own financial scandal --- centered around the tunnels that run under the border with Egypt to circumvent the Israeli blockade.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina made it official today: She's running for Senate in California. The winner of the GOP nomination will face Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Supporters of Maine's same-sex marriage law, which voters narrowly repealed, gathered Wednesday to concede the vote but not the issue.

Victories in New Jersey and Virginia gave a boost to the GOP, but analysts question whether the results should be interpreted as a blow to President Obama.

Anyone who has taken an anthropology course has probably heard of Claude Levi-Strauss, who died recently at age 100.

The president didn't watch the election returns Tuesday night, according to his press secretary, Robert Gibbs. He watched his beloved Chicago Bulls instead.

Thirty years ago, Iranian student revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized dozens of Americans. The hostage crisis created a rift that persists.

Jessica Simpson and Dolly Parton have found more to bond over than their blonde locks and country crooning. The famously busty pair found common ground this week over the difficulties of having an ample bosom.

A Republican Party left for dead by many in the wake of recent Democratic landslides sprang back to life with wins in hotly contested races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey.

Two dozen Americans -- most thought to work for the CIA -- were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court for their role in the seizing of a suspected terrorist off the streets of Milan in 2003, Italian media reported.

Mexican federal officials have declared a state of emergency in two cities in Tabasco state, which along with Veracruz state has suffered heavy flooding that has displaced more than 30,000 residents.

As the Italian trial of U.S. student Amanda Knox draws to a close, a jury will have to decide whether it's a slam-dunk case or "Fellini forensics."

1. So the World Series comes down to this: the old and familiar. Stop me if you have heard this before: a Yankees team with Andy Pettitte, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera trying to get through Pedro Martinez to a world championship. Game 5 barely was over in Philadelphia when even Jeter, rarely reflective, immediately understood that the World Series is reduced to a most familiar confrontation, an old narrative well told.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she took on the "complicated and difficult" task of trying to restart talks on Israeli-Palestinian peace during her talks with Egypt's leaders.

The bodies of three students at a North Dakota university who had been missing since Sunday were found Tuesday in a vehicle submerged in a pond, police said.

Protesters clashed with police in Tehran today, while government supporters nearby marked the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover with chants of "Death to America."

Tuesday's off-year election might not have the high stakes of the 2008 presidential election, but several significant races are worth watching:

An earthquake struck southern Iran's Hormozgan province early Wednesday, injuring about 700 people, state-run media reported.

Shouts of "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," a sign of continuing protest in Iran, could be heard Tuesday night in north and west Tehran, along with shouts of "death to dictator."

A Louisiana justice of the peace who drew criticism for refusing to marry an interracial couple has resigned, the secretary of state's office said Tuesday.

Investigators discovered four more bodies Tuesday at the Cleveland, Ohio, home of a convicted rapist -- making a total of 10 since last week, police said Tuesday.

At least for now, detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay will not be getting any H1N1 vaccine, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

Ever flown through Phoenix, Arizona, and had your bag go missing?

The legal battle between Miss California USA pageant officials and former beauty queen Carrie Prejean ended Tuesday with an agreement to drop their claims, according to a pageant spokesman.

The former Sports Illustrated cover girl is back in modeling shape -- but not because she wants to retake the catwalk.

Jury selection was conducted for a second day Tuesday in the trial of a man accused in the rape and beating death of an Arkansas television anchor a year ago.