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Tessa Vanvlerah has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without probation for sexually assaulting her then-5-month-old daughter and allowing Kenneth Kyle, a man she met online, to rape the infant.

After several delays, the Travis County Commissioners Court has officially given its final stamp of approval on the tax incentives package offered from the state and local governments, which means Apple can start preparing to build facilities and add jobs in its sprawling campus in Austin, Texas.

How do you make people like Obamacare? A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presentation offers a model.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Jose Padilla's lawsuit against Bush administration counsel and torture memo author John Yoo.

Michael Bascum Selsor was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday in Oklahoma for the murder of a convenience store manager, Clayton Chandler, in Tulsa almost 37 years ago.

Motorola Mobility Holdings (Nasdaq: MMI) won a patent ruling in Germany that bans Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, from selling Windows 7 and other products.

Last night, the Boston Celtics took the win over the Atlanta Hawks 87-80 in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal, but that's not the top story on sports blogs, websites and newspapers today; All were shocked in attendance at the game at Philips Area and those watching from home when Paul Pierce was seen dropping to one knee in prayer in a gesture that can only be labeled as Tebowing. But why did he do it?

Alsop?s columns appeared in 300 newspapers and were read widely by D.C. elites

Le Pen?s refusal to support Sarkozy may lead many of her supporters to similarly boycott the election, which would likely hand a victory over to Hollande.

Octomom Nadya Suleman must have never thought while going for her seventh pregnancy that one day her decision would land her in a state that she would have to agree to get into pornography to be able to pay her bills. But that's what just happened.

Can the Denver Nuggets overcome the size of the Los Angeles Lakers and win Game 2 of their NBA playoffs first-round matchup on Tuesday with the purple and gold?

A coalition of interest groups encompassing immigration advocates, organized labor groups and members of Occupy Wall Street gathered in Union Square on Tuesday afternoon for a May Day rally.

A slim majority Americans still have a favorable opinion of the Supreme Court, but support has declined over the last three years.

The two industries spent a combined $112.9 million on lobbying fees during the first three months of 2012.

Houston-based oil ang gas giant ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has been fined $257 million to settle charges brought by the Chinese government following a massive oil spill. The company's Chinese venture partner, CNOOC Ltd., was also fined, to the tune of $76 million.

Charles Taylor's conviction at the Hague was important for Sierra Leone, but it represents only a single step in the country's long journey toward lasting peace.

On the same day a federal judge blocked Texas from removing Planned Parenthood from a state program for advocating abortion services, an appeals judge allowed the state to move forward.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney ignored a heckler shouting Mitt Romney you're a racist! while he and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani criticized Barack Obama for politicizing the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The Denver Nuggets will look to even their first-round NBA playoffs series against the Los Angeles Lakers 1-1 after allowing Lakers center Andrew Bynum to dominate Game 1.

The United States condemned the alleged mistreatment of jailed politician Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine on Tuesday and called for her release.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief who faced sexual assault charges, failed to convince a New York judge that he has immunity from the civil suit against him from his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo.