A top AEG executive referred to Michael Jackson as "a freak" and another called him "creepy" just hours before their company signed the pop icon to a huge concert deal.

In a game that is already being regarded as an instant classic, Miami Heat star LeBron James traded clutch baskets with emerging Indiana Pacers standout Paul George.

From the targeted killing of Americans overseas to the future of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama will lay out the framework and legal rationale for his administration's counterterrorism policy in a widely anticipated speech.

Inside Moore Medical Center's emergency room, Dr. Stephanie Barnhart had been monitoring the weather all afternoon. A tornado watch was in effect, but that was almost commonplace for this time of year in Oklahoma.

Prime Minister David Cameron called a meeting of Britain's civil emergency committee on Thursday, looking for answers in the aftermath of the daylight hacking death of a British soldier in London.

The meeting comes as security was increased at army ba...

Think that a secure password and erasing your phone's memory will protect sensitive information on your smartphone? Think again.

The tornado that struck the Moore, Okla., area Monday afternoon left an almost 2-mile wide path of destruction, flattening homes and businesses and taking at least 24 lives.

Tesla Motors announced Wednesday that it has repaid a $465 million loan from the government nearly a decade before it was scheduled to do so.

The eyes of the country will be upon Texas on Thursday.

Counterterrorism drone strikes have killed four Americans overseas since 2009, the U.S. government acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday, one day before President Barack Obama delivers a major speech on related policy.

In a letter to Senate Jud...

Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Flori...

Virgin America topped the latest airline satisfaction rankings from Consumer Reports, the first time the 6-year-old airline has appeared on the list.

A 37-year-old man arrested Wednesday in Washington state as part of an investigation of ricin-laced letters threatened in one such letter to injure and kill a federal judge, a grand jury indictment alleges.

FBI agents arrested Matthew Ryan Buquet on W...

Residents remember the 24 people who lost their lives Monday when a massive tornado hit Moore, Okla., just outside Oklahoma City, including an 8-year-old boy who was a force on the soccer field.

After more than seven hours of deliberations, jurors still haven't decided whether Jodi Arias will live or die.

The Arizona jury sent out a note Wednesday morning saying its members couldn't agree.

Judge Sherry Stephens told them to try again and ord...

They first hit the man, thought to be a British soldier, with a car in broad daylight. Then the two attackers hacked him to death and dumped his body in the middle of a southeastern London road.

As the victim -- dressed in what appeared to be a T-shi...

The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools, a controversial move that drew sharp criticism from the city's teachers union.

The vote comes two months after officials announced plans to shutter the schools.

The closures "will cons...

A six-hour congressional hearing Wednesday on Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups lacked one thing -- answers from the woman who heads the unit responsible for a scandal dominating Washington politics.

Lois Lerner, the IRS direct...

The U.S. government has identified "a certain number of people" believed involved in the Benghazi, Libya, attack, a senior Republican lawmaker tells CNN.

The lawmaker said government investigators have put identities to individuals seen in surveillanc...

The U.S. economy is on stronger footing than a year ago, but Ben Bernanke wants to be careful not to squelch the recovery now.

"A premature tightening of monetary policy could lead interest rates to rise temporarily, but would also carry a substantial...

Pope Emeritus Benedict had made cleaning up the Vatican's reputation for shady money a top priority, and Pope Francis is continuing the effort.

Ashley Judd is out, but Democrats in Kentucky may have another star on their Senate ticket in November.

It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them.