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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A human rights group has asked the United Nations not to abandon seeking accountability for alleged abuses in Sri Lanka's civil war.
The city of Chicago says it's ready to hire firefighters in a long-running discrimination case if it's ordered to do so now that the U.S. Supreme Court has found a group of black applicants didn't wait too long to sue.
Tens of thousands of ruling party supporters rallied Tuesday in Ethiopia's capital to celebrate victory in the national election, which a U.S. rights group claims was marred by irregularities.
Ethiopia's ruling party called a rally in the capital Tuesday to celebrate its victory in national elections, but a U.S. rights group claimed the weekend ballot was corrupted by irregularities.
Police have arrested two members of a gay organization after they posted a letter in their office from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Lewis Brown criticizing the Zimbabwean president's opposition to homosexuality, their lawyer said Monday.
A proposal to step up the repeal of the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military but still allow the Pentagon time - perhaps even years - to implement new policies won the White House's backing on Monday after administration officials met with gay rights activists.
A proposal to step up the repeal of the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military but still allow the Pentagon time - perhaps even years - to implement new policies was being discussed Monday by administration officials and gay rights activists.
Nobody knows why for sure, but girls in Kansas have been gaining weight at an alarming rate.
British Airways cabin crews began a five-day strike Monday to protest cost-cutting changes at the loss-making airline, forcing it to scrap almost half its flights out of London's Heathrow Airport.
The violent crime rate in the United States went down in 2009 for the third year in a row and the property crime rate fell for the seventh consecutive year, the FBI reported Monday.
An animal-rights group known for sending out scantily clad demonstrators to protest fur and other provocative stunts has gained influence in boardrooms with a more traditional tactic: buying company stock.
The leader of the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq's March election said the country's most influential Shiite cleric assured him in a meeting Sunday that no group would be excluded from the new government.
Thousands of British Airways cabin crew began a five-day strike Monday, forcing cancellation of many flights from London Heathrow airport, though the airline claimed it will still be able to carry 70 percent of booked passengers.
For decades, black men across Chicago described torture at the hands of former police Lt. Jon Burge and his officers, and for decades no one listened.
Ethiopia's opposition said they may contest the results of Sunday's national election in court after reports of intimidation and vote-rigging.