The wife of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff says they tried to kill themselves after he admitted stealing billions of dollars in the largest Ponzi scheme in history.  In the only interview Ruth Madoff has given about her husband’s crimes, she tells Morley Safer she and Bernard were so distraught over the burden of those crimes [...]

Defense attorneys for a New York City man charged with abducting, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old boy say his confession was coerced. At a hearing Monday, they said authorities told Levi Aron what to write down. They say he is not sane enough to be aware of his actions. Aron has pleaded not guilty in [...]

Americans have yet to find a Republican they’d clearly prefer over President Barack Obama, although half say the president does not deserve re-election. Among Republicans, the desire to oust Obama is clear, according to a new AP-GfK poll. But it has not resolved divisions over the choice of a nominee. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney [...]

NATO said Tuesday it is considering ending its bombing campaign in Libya but the decision must consider the threat pro-Moammar Gadhafi fighters still pose to civilians. Some have speculated that the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s top decision-making body, will declare an end to the 7-month-old Libyan operation when it meets Wednesday. But a diplomat said [...]

President Barack Obama’s campaign raised more than $70 million combined for his re-election and the Democratic Party during the summer, an amount that gives him a clear financial advantage over his Republican rivals even as faces economic and political headwinds. The fundraising total announced Thursday exceeds a goal set by the campaign of $55 million [...]

Asian Human Rights Commission claim girl was lured on shopping trip by friend before she was kidnapped. Abductors drove her 120 miles before raping her, then forced her to sign marriage papers Victim managed to escape eight months later, but police refuse to prosecute rapists because they are tied to militant Islam group A 12-year-old [...]

The United States said Tuesday it had broken up a “chilling” plot planned high up in the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi envoy to Washington and vowed to hold Tehran to account. In an explosive twist to the bitter US showdown with the Islamic Republic, the Justice Department charged two men with conspiring with [...]

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says he raised $8 million in the last three months. The Texas congressman said Wednesday that his campaign will report that sum when it files its fundraising report with the Federal Election Commission later this month. Paul also says his campaign has more than 100,000 donors. Paul says “we are [...]

First lady Michelle Obama made a rare trip to Secret Service headquarters Wednesday, where she glimpsed the intricate work that goes into protecting her family — and the potential danger of that mission. After an hourlong tour of the agency’s protective intelligence division and the joint operations center, Obama called the daily tasks performed by [...]

Iran’s navy is going to deploy ships close to US territorial waters, its commander in chief was quoted as saying on Tuesday. “As the global oppression (the US) is present not far from our maritime border … our navy is going to have a strong presence not far from US territorial waters,” the Irna news [...]