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The scheme used the millions earned through the illicit drug trade to purchase, train, breed and race American quarter horses in the United States.

A new study showing that Americans lost nearly 40 percent of their wealth in the Great Recession turned up another notable result: Credit card debt also fell sharply; the median family's balance tumbled 16 percent. But it's not just because people rushed to pay off their plastic.

Democrats knew they'd have trouble with the new campaign finance rules created by the Supreme Court. Yet the disparity is huge between what Republicans are raising in unlimited anonymous donations and what Democrats have been able to collect.

Young animals' cries for help and the soundtracks of spine-tingling movies have something in common: An irregular, scratchy sound signals that something scary is afoot.

From the Kitchen Window column

From the Kitchen Window column

News of widespread layoffs at The Times-Picayune, the city’s only daily newspaper and a mainstay of morning routine for generations of New Orleanians,…

The federal government promised almost 30 years ago to find a place to bury nuclear waste from power plants. It hasn't. So 70,000 tons of waste is piling up at power plants around the country, and a federal appeals court has told the government it needs to prove the temporary solution is truly safe.

A decades-long mystery over the death of a baby in Australia has ended, after a coroner found a dingo was responsible for killing the infant in the Australian Outback.

The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Miami Heat 105-94 on Tuesday night in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.