MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democrat Al Franken, a satirist turned politician, was declared the winner of a Senate seat in Minnesota on Tuesday, clearing the way for President Barack Obama’s party to secure a critical 60-seat majority in the Senate.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hours after U.S. troops handed over full control of Iraq’s cities to its domestic security forces, a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least 30 people on Tuesday, police said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq regained full control if its towns and cities on Tuesday as U.S. troops pulled back, six years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison on Monday for perpetrating the biggest and most brazen investment fraud in Wall Street history.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran army ousted President Manuel Zelaya and threw him out of the country on Sunday in Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the army by trying to win re-election.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Authorities in Tehran have detained eight local British embassy staff, Iranian media said on Sunday, underscoring the hardline leadership’s effort to blame post-election unrest on foreign powers, not popular anger.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles police on Saturday again questioned Michael Jackson’s doctor, while the family of the pop music icon ordered its own private autopsy two days after his death shocked fans around the world.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The body of Michael Jackson has been released to his family for burial, a Los Angeles County coroner’s spokesman said on Saturday, after an autopsy failed to immediately determine what killed the troubled pop star.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One day after Michael Jackson’s sudden death, speculation turned to what killed the 50-year-old “King of Pop” on the cusp of a long-awaited comeback concert series.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, facing one of his toughest grillings yet by U.S. lawmakers on Thursday, denied he had ever threatened to fire Bank of America management if they pulled the plug on a planned merger with Merrill Lynch.