Opponents of Arizona's immigration crackdown went ahead with protests despite a judge's ruling that delayed enforcement of most the law, and dozens were arrested.

Ousted USDA employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday that she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video that appeared to show her making racially offensive remarks.

The number of mislabeled graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be 6,600, the senator whose subcommittee is investigating potential contracting fraud there said Thursday.

Preparations for step one of a two-step attempt to plug the Gulf oil gusher are going well and it could start by the weekend, the government's point man for the spill response said Thursday.

Arizona and Fremont, Neb., are at the forefront of the movement by governments to get tough with illegal immigrants. But they are learning that passing a law is far from enough.

Federal officials believe an oil spill that has contaminated a major Michigan river was larger than first estimated, and the governor is warning of a "tragedy of historic proportions" should the oil reach Lake Michigan.

Two New Orleans police officers were indicted on federal charges in the beating death of a 48-year-old man, part of a sprawling U.S. Justice Department probe that has led to charges against 18 of the city's officers.

Four airmen were killed in a cargo plane that crashed during a training run at an Air Force base, military authorities said Thursday.

The world can finally get a deeper look at the long-hidden roots of American espionage as tens of thousands of once-secret documents have finally become public after a security review.

Convicted D.C. sniper tells actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and that his accomplice killed one man for backing out.

A jury on Thursday began deliberating whether to sentence to death a 29-year-old man convicted of beheading his common-law wife's three children.

A Virginia woman who used sex and money to persuade two men to kill her husband and her stepson to collect a $250,000 life insurance policy was scheduled Thursday to be executed in two months, which would be the first U.S. execution of a woman in five years.

After welcome signs of growth in housing earlier this year, home sales — and prices — are likely to wilt again in the summer heat, a victim of rising foreclosures and weak demand.

Challenging civil rights agencies and teacher's unions that have criticized his education policies, Obama said that minority students have the most to gain from overhauling schools.

Investigators said they have found evidence linking an Army intelligence analyst with the leak of secret war documents, a defense official told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

Montana wildlife officials have captured a female grizzly and two of her three cubs in a campground near Yellowstone National Park where a man was killed and two others were injured.

A senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials say the body of a second U.S. sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan has been recovered.

Rip-offs and scams happen all the time. Anyone can become a victim. But right now, many con artists and swindlers are using the poor economy to target people in financial trouble.

Calm, cool weather Thursday morning dampened a wildfire that destroyed 25 buildings north of Los Angeles, but crews were prepared for afternoon winds that could kick up the flames again.

Toyota is recalling 412,000 passenger cars, mostly the Avalon model, in the U.S. for steering problems in which three accidents have been reported, the automaker said Thursday.