Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried 17,650 sea creatures that had never known sunlight living nearly three miles below the sea. Scientists used cameras, sonar and other technologies to find the species.
The top U.S. general and the U.S ambassador in Afghanistan have been told to prepare to testify before Congress as early as next week, according to White House and other U.S. officials.
Federal authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges against eight men, accusing them of recruiting Somali Americans from Minn. to join an extremist Islamic insurgency in Somalia.
The Ft. Hood shootings have brought unwelcome attention to the Muslim worshipers who prayed alongside the suspect, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, in Killen, Texas.
The Supreme Court will examine whether a decision by the judicial branch, rather than the executive or legislative, can create the kind of taking of private property forbidden by the Constitution.