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A disturbing video of teenagers pointing a gun at one of their peers, taunting him, has led to a police investigation in New Mexico.

After pleading not guilty to the most serious charge against him and guilty to 16 lesser counts, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning told a military judge on Thursday that he released hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to the WikiLeaks website to “spark domestic debate” on foreign policy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A man who stole $100 from a Santa Ana apartment resident  Monday morning returned to the same complex hours later, broke into another unit and ordered a resident to cook for him as he ingested narcotics, according to police.

Holding out for ransom demands in the form of benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Senate Republicans today again refused to surrender their hostages—the nation’s economy and working families who will be hurt by the upcoming Republican sequester.Republicans led the charge to defeat a Democratic plan that would have eliminated the across-the-board sequestration budget cuts for the remainder of 2013, which the Congressional Budget Office has estimated would cost 750,000 jobs.

Kevin Mandia "kicked the hornet's nest" nine days ago when his computer security firm, Mandiant Corp., accused China of hacking U.S. businesses. Now he's awaiting the consequences.

Eighteen cats and two birds were killed during a Connecticut house fire, but firefighters were able to save eight other pets.

Florida will start selling tickets to the popular Mega Millions game later this year.

More than 400 locked-out North Dakota American Crystal Sugar workers got some good news this week when the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled they were eligible to collect unemployment benefits. When the lockout began in August 2011, North Dakota Job Service ruled the workers were ineligible for the benefits.

Members of the Reagan High School band stopped rush hour traffic yesterday in front of the federal building in Austin, Texas, along with hundreds of advocates, community leaders, families and construction workers, as they celebrated the Workers Defense Project’s (WDP's) biannual Day of the Fallen.

A 23-year-old man accused of killing his mother, cutting up her body with a saw and dumping it on the curb throughout their Bronx neighborhood said at a court appearance Thursday that his mother was dying and that he was trying to help.