George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, was hospitalized after falling at a South Dakota university, a library staff member told CNN.

An intense struggle among several senior Justice Department officials was revealed Friday as internal documents on the gun-running Operation Fast and Furious were released by the department.

When Catherine al-Talli was 13 years old, a group of strangers came knocking at her family's home in Syria. It was 1992.

Egyptians are eagerly awaiting results from voting in the first election since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, a vote that could catapult Islamists into powerful roles.

Democratic and GOP leaders agree the payroll tax cut must be extended, but Republicans are divided not just over how to pay for it but whether to extend it at all.

Flying fashionistas with a thing for the Second Amendment may want to leave their gun-themed purses and other paraphernalia at home, lest they be flagged as a security risk and miss their flights.

The lawyer for a man convicted of murdering a Connecticut mother and her two daughters described his client as "damaged" and suffering from a mood disorder during a last-ditch attempt Friday to spare his client's life.

The lawyer for a man convicted of murdering a Connecticut mother and her two daughters described his client as "damaged" and suffering from a mood disorder during a last-ditch attempt Friday to spare his client's life.