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AT&T and Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's parent company, asked Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. Monday to delay the trial with the U.S. Department of Justice over the proposed $39 billion merger, which she has granted.

Newt Gingrich is standing behind his comment that Palestine is a nation of invented people with no real right to their own state. His comments have inflamed Arab sentiments and may alienate some Jewish voters, but Gingrich insists his remarks are factually accurate and historically true. Watch his initial comments and response here.

Linden, who hailed from KwaZulu-Natal, reportedly asserted her innocence and claimed the drugs were planted in her suitcase.

I am confident the high court will uphold Arizona's constitutional authority and obligation to protect the safety and welfare of its citizens, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to decide the fate of Texas' new redistricting map could delay state primary elections.

AT&T seeks a review of the FCC decision on the grounds that it exceeds the Commission's authority; is contrary to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996; and is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and otherwise contrary to law.

Van Morrison has been left devastated following the death of his former lover and mother of his youngest child, Gigi Lee, who passed two months ago after a long battle with cancer. She was 44.

Sufficiently enraging Palestinian officials, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich maintained his assertion that Palestinians are an invented people with no definitive right to their own state.

The Justice Department had argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should allow to stand lower courts' decisions to place a preliminary injunction on four key provisions of Arizona's anti-immigration law.

Rick Perry says he hasn't memorized the names of the nine Supreme Court justices, and if voters want a robot who can spit out that kind of information, they should look elsewhere. He struggled to remember the name of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, eventually coming up with Montemayor.

A Virginia woman who has faked having ovarian cancer since her twenties was arrested on Thursday on two misdemeanor counts of obtaining money by false pretenses, according to a Hanover County Sheriff's Office press release.

It has been an interesting past week for Lindsay Lohan: her Playboy photos were leaked, her Playboy interview was leaked, and she had her purse stolen in Hawaii, only to see it returned missing $10,000.

A European summit deal to strengthen budget discipline in the Eurozone failed to restore financial market confidence on Monday, forcing the European Central Bank to step in again gingerly.

Panama’s ex-leader Manuel Noriega has returned back to his home country to face further punishment following extradition from France.

Lindsay Lohan may have felt far away from her problems in Hawaii, but the jacking of her $5,000 channel purse seems to have brought the troubled actress back to reality. The bag contained her passport, cash and probation papers from court, TMZ reported.

The game of steady trash talk was finally called with 9.4 seconds remaining afte the teams got into a fight on the court. Both benches cleared and shoves and swings flew. The referees assumed there was no way to restore order, so the ended the game, with Xavier claiming the win.

A Saudi Arabian man has been sentenced to 2,080 lashes and 13 years in prison for continually raping his daughter over the course of seven years.

The man was found guilty in a court in Mecca of raping his teenage daughter for seven years while he was under the unfluence of drugs, The Associated Pres reported.

The player has also attracted attention from Italian Serie A club Napoli

Excavating lost Mayan ruins or traveling to space are normally the stuff of adventure novels. But for Facebook employees, these and other lavish dreams are moving closer to reality as the world's No. 1 online social network prepares for a blockbuster IPO.

Actress Lindsay Lohan, in her first interview since being sent to jail last month for a probation violation, tells Playboy that she has learned to be accountable for her mistakes.