Ken Stanford

The New York Police Department's focus on Muslims has renewed the political surveillance of the 1960s and `70s that was banned under a landmark legal ruling, according to a new court filing by civil rights lawyers.

At least eight people were killed and 38 injured Sunday when a tour bus careened out of control while traveling down a Southern California mountain road, struck a car, flipped and plowed into a pickup truck, authorities said.

A Super Bowl week that had gone so smoothly for the Big Easy suddenly turned bizarre when everyone was watching. The lights went out on the biggest game of the year.

Some parts of north Georgia awakened to 3-5 inches of snow Sunday morning after a snowstorm that begin moving through the area early Saturday afternoon.

A ranking Republican wants to expand a Georgia tax credit system that benefits private school students, even as critics have asked the state to investigate whether donors are illegally earmarking scholarships for specific students.

Iran's foreign minister on Sunday welcomed the United States' willingness to hold direct talks with Tehran in the standoff over its nuclear program but didn't commit to accepting the offer

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said "the political knives" came out when Chuck Hagel faced fellow Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing to be Pentagon chief.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued "important" guidelines on how to bolster the army and protect the nation's sovereignty at a high-level ruling Workers' Party meeting, state media said Sunday, an indication that Pyongyang may be ready to conduct an atomic test anytime.

The immigration debate is threatening to split the Republican Party, pitting those who focus mainly on presidential elections against those who care mostly about congressional races.

An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but the conservative activists gathered outside the New Hampshire Statehouse had just one thing on their minds: guns.