Hillary Clinton has removed all negative ads about her former rival for the Democratic presidential ticket Barack Obama from her campaign website and from her page on a popular video-sharing website.

The 2008 presidential race, which has already drawn a record number of dollars and voters, is poised to shatter another record: the amount of money spent on television advertisements.

A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years.

British-American writer Christopher Hitchens voluntarily submitted to waterboarding and concluded that the controversial interrogation technique used by the CIA is torture.

US Continental Airlines and two of its employees are to stand trial for manslaughter over the crash of an Air France Concorde airliner in 2000 that killed 113 people

A belief that Asian-Americans are taking over US universities, outperforming other groups and grabbing the bulk of math, science and engineering degrees has been debunked in a landmark study.

The justice department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.

A former teacher pleaded guilty to fleeing to Mexico with a 13-year-old student so she could have sex with him.

President George Bush will attend the opening ceremony at the Olympics in China next month, the White House said.