Everything you need to get up to speed on the big story of the day May 25 is National Missing Children's Day. Etan Patz, its poster child, remains missing. After 33 years, a man has stepped forward to confess to strangling Patz. Proof will be another matter, as the former grocery store worker has not [...]

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker has apparently had enough of saying he's sorry this week. The rising Democratic star has been under fire since a Sunday appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press"during which he said Democratic attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital were "nauseating," Having endured days of excoriating criticism, and having tried [...]

An apparently "disoriented" passenger had to be calmed down and subdued on an American Airlines jet Friday as it was taxiing after landing in Miami International Airport, an airline spokesman said.

Hurricane Bud weakened to a Category 2 storm as it headed early Friday toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta.

The Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate in Egypt's first free presidential vote had won through to a run-off next month against ex-air force chief Ahmed Shafiq, deposed leader Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister.

A wave of climbers were headed for the summit of Mount Everest on Friday in what is expected to be another busy weekend on the top of the world.

Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook will not be earning dividend income on the more than 1 million shares to which he is entitled, which will cost him about $75 million.

A federal jury convicted Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim soldier, on six charges in connection with his failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of troops, his religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Two raging wildfires in southwest New Mexico merged on Thursday to become the biggest blaze among fires that have torched forest and brush in parts of five Southwestern states.