A man who climbed over a retaining wall and leaped into the Horseshoe Falls in Ontario, Canada, earlier today is at an area hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to news reports. Witnesses — many of  whom were out celebrating Victoria Day, a Canadian holiday — told...

It was rush hour on Mount Everest this weekend with 150 climbers reaching the summit, including a 73-year-old woman, but the world's tallest peak also claimed the lives of four climbers, and one more is missing.

Bain Capital has been used as a political weapon against Mitt Romney since 1994, but now his opponents might be rethinking ads about his private-equity firm as they are scrutinized on all sides.

UN nuclear agency chief says deal reached with Iran on IAEA probe of country's nuclear sites

NEW YORK — For the second day, Newark Mayor Cory Booker scrambled to clarify his comments criticizing the Obama campaign’s assault on Mitt Romney’s job creation record at Bain Capital after he sent the Obama administration into full blown damage-control while the GOP continued to...

The DEA today announced that at least three of its agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in Cartagena, a month after the Secret Service was rocked by allegations that agents brought prostitutes to a Colombia hotel where they were preparing for a visit by President Obama.

Here's a look at some of the companies that have put their fate in Bain's hands both during and after Romney's stint as interim CEO.

Private supply ship, SpaceX Dragon, rockets toward space station, opens new era of spaceflight

Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed "El Loco," AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico. When the Mexican Army came to arrest Daniel Elizondo Jesus Ramirez, say authorities, he attempted to elude capture by shooting and troops and throwing a fragmentation grenade.

Small plane goes down in Southern Calif. neighborhood, slices through power lines

The jury in John Edwards' political corruption trial ended its second day of deliberations this morning in Greensboro, N.C., still focused on the "Bunny" money. The jury appears to be taking a meticulous, count-by-count approach to their discussions.

Boy was trapped on ledge for nearly nine hours.

Most people believe that it's foolish not to have insurance, and in many cases they're right. Yet buying some types of insurance may be a costly mistake.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries some extra cargo: the cremated ashes of 300 souls. They include James Doohan (Scotty of 'Star Trek' fame) and Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

The former president of CNN’s Headline News almost found himself in deep doo-doo after he was caught on camera placing a bag filled with dog excrement in a neighbor’s mailbox last week. Bob Furnad was seemingly oblivious to the surveillance camera capturing him and his...

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A New Jersey woman says she was fired from her job after her manager told her to "tape her breasts" down, and now has filed suit against the company claiming religious and sexual discrimination.

Police in Portland, Me. are searching for Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, a Cambridge, Mass. man who has been missing since early Sunday morning after spending Saturday night in the Old Port area of town, reported ABC affiliate WMTW-TV. Bihlmaier is a student at Harvard Business School and is slated to graduate on Thursday; he had traveled to Portland from Cambridge with two friends to celebrate for the weekend. After separating from his friends at the RiRa Irish Pub around closing time at 1 a.m. Sunday, Bihlmaier was not seen again, according to the Portland Press Herald.

With Facebook's stock down 11 percent during its close Monday, many retail investors who thought they were getting the hot ticket in town may be playing hot potato with their Facebook shares.

Some of the entrepreneurs, from Elon Musk to Richard Branson, who have made fortunes on Earth and now want to make fortunes in space.

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