Elisha Maldonado

In the weeks before the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, the CIA had a prominent doctor organize a fake vaccination drive, in an attempt to secretly collect DNA from him and his family.

Scientists have found the first superbug strain of gonorrhea -- a discovery they're calling both alarming and predictable, Reuters reported.

An overcrowded Russian boat was in dire need of repairs when it sank in the Volga River with 208 people on board, officials said Monday, the death toll rising to 58 confirmed dead.

The fundamentalist, anti-gay Westoboro Baptist Church has announced its intention to picket funeral services in California and Michigan for former first lady Betty Ford, who died Friday at 93, The Grand Rapids Press reports.

Scientists have found the first superbug strain of gonorrhea -- a discovery they're calling both alarming and predictable.

Google+ may still be in its infancy, with only tens of thousands of users thus far, but Facebook's new competitor has created a huge stir on Twitter, according to a new study.

Shannon Stone, a 39-year-old Texas Rangers fan, was trying to catch a foul ball at the game tossed to him by Rangers outfielder, Josh Hamilton, when he fell over the railing at the Ballpark at Arlington Thursday night. Stone, who was at the game with his 6-year-old son, fell 20 feet over the left-field railing and landed on his head. He was taken to Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office where he later died.

By now, the story is well-known: A father reaches over the railing at a Texas Rangers baseball game to catch a ball, only to fall to his death while his son watched.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ended their Canadian tour today and are now expected to arrive in Los Angeles. There, the prince will play a polo match, he and Kate will hobnob with celebrities at a glitzy black-tie affair, and they'll both continue their charity work.

LivingSocial, one of the major leaguers in the social-buying sector, has hired JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to oversee the company's upcoming initial public offering, a person with knowledge of the talks said.

Casey Anthony, acquitted of killing her daughter Caylee, will be released from jail on July 17 instead of July 13, according to court officials.

As Prince William and Kate Middleton continued their tour across Canada today, touching down at Calgary International Airport, they fulfilled the wish of a sick little girl.

It's easy to get click-happy when using your iPhone, but surf to the wrong page, or open the wrong PDF file, and hackers can take over the device, Germany's information security agency said.

Thanks to a single, female ancestor -- a brown bear from Ireland, who lived around 20,000 to 50,000 years ago - polar bears can now know where they came from, a study in the latest version of Current Biology shows.

She spent three years in jail accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, and now Casey Anthony will go free Wednesday.

Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, on Tuesday. And while it stirred controversy across the nation, it also spurred two lawmakers to create a bill in the young girl’s name, The Miami Herald reported.

Ten years and eight films later, Harry Potter is nearing its end.And at Thursday's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II premiere in London's Trafalgar Square, Emma Watson admitted that the event was bittersweet.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is now royalty, but she's also Britain's latest (and arguably favorite) fashionista. What comes next for her is yet to be seen, but the media is going Kate-crazy over the commoner-turned-Royal Duchess.

NASA space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to liftoff on the final mission of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day program to the International Space Station on July 8 at 11:26 am EDT.

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 and held by a Salt Lake City preacher for nine months in 2002 and 2003, has joined ABC News as a paid contributor.

A tsunami warning issued for New Zealand following a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the country has been canceled, but local officials are still urging caution in the coastal areas.

Casey Anthony, the young mother who faced the death penalty for murdering her 2-year-old child using duct tape and chloroform, was acquitted yesterday despite the fact that she spent the month after her child went missing partying.

New Zealand civil defense authorities have issued a tsunami warning after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the country.

New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation is attempting to answer that question this summer, as it conducts a weathering study of Cleopatra's Needle, which was gifted to the United States government by Egypt as a token to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal. The obelisk has stood in Central Park since 1881, the New York Times reported.

In the Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins' character, Andy, dug his way out of prison with a rock hammer. In The Count of Monte Cristo, the main character, Edmond Dantes, escapes prison in the bodybag of his dead friend. And in Chetumal, Mexico, Maria del Mar Arjona tried to smuggle her boyfriend out if jail in her suitcase. But, instead, she ended up arrested herself.

Minutes after his client was found not guilty of murder, Casey Anthony's attorney Jose Baez declared there are no winners in the case.

The jury that found Casey Anthony not guilty of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee declined to discuss the verdict.

A video of President Barack Obama filmed in the White House and included in a fundraising e-mail sent to supporters is not legal, two election law experts say, CNSNews.com reported.

I'm the only woman in the establishment, yet I barely notice, so at home do I feel. I've just perched myself in one of the lounge's lion-armed chairs, newspaper in hand, when from afar, a man bellows, Rocky Patel; toro; 1992; a Nicaraguan blend. I used to like those.