Mourners gathered at a modest stone church north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The launch of a privately owned Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was delayed on Saturday when a computer detected a possible problem with one of the rocket’s engines, a Space Exploration Technologies official said.

A jury deliberated for about five hours Friday in John Edwards’ campaign corruption trial involving money from wealthy donors that was used to hide his pregnant mistress during his 2008 White House bid. Talks will resume Monday, but the jury has already made several requests for evidence and office supplies, a sign they may be settling in for detailed discussions.

Environmental monitoring of one of the statues is set up in Quarry 2. For more information visit the Easter Island Statue Project

The ad aims to turn the presumptive Republican nominee’s business record into a liability as voters worry about the struggling economy.

President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.

Vice President Joe Biden is not convinced the economic recovery has flatlined, doesn’t think Mitt Romney has a jobs plan and is “absolutely comfortable” with gay marriage. During a wide-ranging interview with David Gregory on NBC’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday, Biden weighed in on a wide array of topics–the economy, foreign policy, gay marriage,

Walking a careful line, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday he had wanted an openly gay spokesman who resigned from his campaign this week to stay on.

China said on Friday blind dissident Chen Guangcheng could apply to study abroad, a move praised by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and suggesting an end may be near to a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington. But rights activists sounded a note of caution over expectations of a quick way out for Chen, saying Beijing could be worried that appearing to be soft might embolden other challengers to Communist Party rule ahead of a power handover late this year

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One World Trade Center, the so-called Freedom Tower currently under construction in Lower Manhattan, technically became New York City’s tallest building on Monday, as workers erected steel columns on the 100th floor, 1,271 feet above the street, to make it stand 21 feet higher than the Empire State Building’s observation deck. The Freedom Tower, which

A yacht involved in a race off the coast of California and Mexico apparently collided at night with a much larger vessel, leaving three crew members dead and one missing, a sailing organization said early Sunday. It was the state’s second ocean racing tragedy this month.

The House on Friday passed a Republican version of a bill that would extend the low 3.4 percent rate on government-subsidized student loans, despite pressure from conservative groups to oppose the measure and a veto threat from the White House. The Republican bill, which passed by a close vote of 215-195, would extend the low

Whether you are the world’s No. 1 retailer or a humble street vendor, paying public officials a bribe may be the quickest way to get your business growing in Mexico. The New York Times reported this weekend that Wal-Mart Stores Inc investigators probing its Mexican operations found a paper trail of hundreds of suspect payments worth more than $24 million made to grow its business there, and that the company then quashed the investigation.

The White House dismissed as “kinda ridiculous” complaints that Obama has been billing taxpayers for criss-crossing the country, giving speeches in states that could be critical to his reelection campaign.

The six-year-old boy who went missing from the Soho area of New York City in 1979 is back in the news. Police and the FBI are investigating a possible lead into the 33-year-old case of Etan Patz, the first missing child to appear on the side of a milk carton. The child disappeared on the

Dropping $822,751 on a conference for about 300 people would be a scandalous waste in the private sector (maybe not if you’re Instagram)—but put that bill on a government tab, and it’s unfathomable: In fact, that sum is the amount of taxpayer dollars dropped on a Las Vegas junket by an agency that most Americans

President Obama called for a “thorough” and “rigorous” investigation following the scandal surrounding the Secret Service officials tasked with his protection.