An animal welfare group said Tuesday that a video it secretly recorded shows workers at a dairy farm beating cows with crowbars, stabbing them with pitchforks and punching them.
President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans met behind closed doors Tuesday for talks ranging from jobs to the massive Gulf oil spill and prospects for strengthening border security this election year.
When Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant college student, got arrested for a minor traffic violation at her suburban Atlanta campus, she became an accidental poster child for immigration reform.
Mexican federal police have arrested the mayor of the resort city of Cancun on drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime charges, the latest blow to 2010 state and local elections already marred by violence and allegations of drug cartel involvement.
Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites.
Mexican federal police have arrested the mayor of the resort city of Cancun on drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime charges, the latest blow to 2010 state and local elections already marred by violence and allegations of drug cartel involvement.
Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to a new report.
Graphic video released to The Associated Press by an animal welfare group shows workers at a dairy farm beating cows with crowbars, stabbing them with pitchforks and punching them in their heads.
Lawyers for a Polish priest accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Brazil and maintaining an "erotic dungeon" in a parish house requested Tuesday that he be freed pending trial.
Italy's bishops' conference provided the first ever statistics of clerical sex abuse in the country Tuesday, saying there had been about 100 cases over the past 10 years that warranted church trials or other canonical procedures.
The Obama administration on Tuesday offered $1.3 billion to settle complaints from female and Latino farmers who say they faced discrimination from the Agriculture Department.
If President Barack Obama thought having a private lunch with Republican senators would ease partisan tensions in Congress, he grabbed the wrong recipe.
Dressed in doctor scrubs, senatorial candidate Rand Paul sought to ditch the image of politician in his first campaign appearance since a round of interviews in which he dismayed fellow Republicans by discussing his views on racial segregation.
Air India employees staged a surprise strike Tuesday to protest a delayed salary payment and a management order not to talk to reporters, forcing the cancellation of 42 flights, officials said.
A Pennsylvania man who won a $2,001 slot machine jackpot must forfeit the winnings and will be charged with trespassing, because he had previously banned himself from casinos under a state program for problem gamblers.
An Ohio truck driver has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after his rig hit a disabled car on a New York highway while his laptop computer streamed pornography.
Miami University says a sorority chapter has dropped its appeal of a two-year suspension for bad behavior at a formal held at the Underground Railroad museum in Cincinnati.
In his first public appearance since making some postelection gaffes, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul tells a hometown crowd he will prove he's not the kind of person the national media makes him out to be.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday gave lukewarm support to a new White House-backed plan for a vote in Congress to immediately repeal the law that bans gays from serving openly in the military.
A White House-approved proposal to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" ban against gays serving openly in the military is expected to face a vote in Congress as early as this week.
Police in northwestern Pakistan broke up a wedding between a businessman and his transgender bride, taking away the couple and 43 guests for violating laws against same-sex marriage in the devoutly Muslim country, an official said Tuesday.
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's attempts to mediate Iran's nuclear standoff with the West have transformed into an aggressive effort to forestall new U.N. sanctions. The assertive campaign is placing Turkey in opposition to longtime allies Israel and the United States.
The University of Michigan has been playing football for more than a century, earning respect by becoming the nation's winningest program while avoiding the stigma attached to teams that break NCAA rules.
Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave.
A human rights group has asked the United Nations not to abandon seeking accountability for alleged abuses in Sri Lanka's civil war.