The hotel assault was reportedly mounted by up to 50 gunmen who seized cars to block streets, slowing the police. At least three people were kidnapped in the attack bearing hallmarks of drug violence.

Should Wall Streeters be arbiters of capital, putting investors' money to the best use? Or should they simply seek maximum returns for themselves and their clients?

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday laid out his rescue plan for a city mired in its worst fiscal crisis in a generation - an austerity budget that would cut library hours, ...

School districts around the country, forced to resort to drastic money-saving measures, are warning hundreds of thousands of teachers that their jobs may be eliminated in June.

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- What do President Barack Obama, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have in common?

In the wee hours of March 5, as bars in Milledgeville, Ga. emptied for the night, three women approached a police officer parked downtown and said "something" had happened to their friend inside a ...

As TV's most popular show seems poised to lose its crown to 'Dancing With the Stars,' we wonder how America will be different when 'American Idol' becomes a has-been.

Living in college grounds fertile for hook-ups, Frannie Boyle of Vanderbilt University has decided to stop. Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) -- Almost every weekend, there is a tradition called raging at Vanderbilt University.

I heard a joke the other day about a pious soul who dies, goes to heaven, and gains an audience with the Virgin Mary. The visitor asks Mary why, for all her blessings, she always appears in paintings as a bit sad, a bit wistful: ...

American politics and the court have changed too much since the true judicial maverick was appointed in 1975. President Obama has said that he will seek to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens with someone who has "similar qualities ...