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Controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff" for his relentless pursuit of criminals, said on Tuesday that he had himself become a victim of credit card fraud.
After their electoral drubbing last November, many top Republicans in Washington seem to have decided that a more articulate re-statement of the party's long-held principles will suffice in their effort to attract new voters.
SEOUL - New York under missile attack is a remote dream for impoverished North Korea, yet that is precisely what the latest propaganda video from the isolated state shows as it readies a third nuclear test.
A New York woman has filed a federal discrimination suit against her former landlord, alleging she has been evicted from her apartment because of her cancer.
A former Texas police investigator appeared in federal court Tuesday accused of stealing comic books worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from the evidence for an ongoing fraud case.
Federal investigators late Tuesday revealed that they have found explosives in the bunker where a 5-year-old Alabama boy was held hostage for nearly a week -- and that the kidnapper was killed only after opening fire first himself.
The Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that one of its internal websites had been briefly breached by hackers, though no critical functions of the central bank were affected by the intrusion. The admission, which raises questions about cyber security at the Fed, follows a claim that hackers linked to the activist group Anonymous had struck the Fed on Sunday, accessing personal information of more than 4,000 U.S. bank executives, which it published on the Web.
Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels ever recorded, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday..
Charlottesville has become the first city in the country to pass a resolution restricting the use of drones, local media reported.
Of the scores of people dubbed terrorists and taken out by American military drone strikes, three men -- all killed in the fall of 2011 -- were U.S. citizens.
