As world leaders gather for the NATO summit in Chicago this weekend, they will be welcomed by thousands of protesters with a litany of complaints. Chief among them: Stop spending money on war.

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

The sister of a Burbank, Ill., bride found stabbed to death in her apartment over the weekend said her new brother-in-law called a relative on the day the body was found to report he'd left his new wife bleeding after a "bad fight.

Seven deputies from the Los Angeles County sheriff’s gang unit are on paid leave during an investigation into their suspected involvement in a secret clique, sources confirmed to The Los Angeles Times Wednesday.

Florida teenager Trayvon Martin died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from “intermediate range,” according to an autopsy report reviewed Wednesday by NBC News.

An 844-foot-long U.S. Navy assault ship collided with a refueling tanker Wednesday about 120 miles off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. immigration officials are clarifying their definition of “culturally unique” in a move that could make it easier for foreign "hybrid" or "fusion" bands to get a visa to play in America.

  Mary Richardson Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has died in an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources told NBC News. The 52-year-old was found dead in her home in Westchester County, N.Y.

This image released by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shows a scale model of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Crews with hand tools battled to contain wind-whipped Arizona wildfires on Wednesday that have raced across more than 30 square miles of parched ponderosa forest, brush and grassland, consuming several buildings and threatening a small town.

A Columbia Law School team has published a report about two men named Carlos -- one who killed a woman, and another who was executed for that crime.

When Rankin Paynter visited a Kmart in Winchester, Ky. that was closing its doors he got an idea: Why not buy the store and donate it to charity?

A Weston, Fla., family has won a court judgment against Iran and Syria, six years after their son was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Authorities believe one person is responsible for mailing 20 powder-filled envelopes to schools and a business in the Dallas-Fort Worth area last week and hundreds of similar letters around the world since late 2008, the FBI said on Wednesday.

A jury has found Steven Powell guilty of voyeurism for taking pictures of girls and women in various states. Powell is the father of Josh Powell, who killed his children earlier this year.

An Arabian show horse named William swam out to sea after being spooked Tuesday evening, triggering an elaborate rescue effort.

Surrounded by ancient olive groves, Douma is just ten miles from Damascus but it feels like another world. It is a city under occupation.

A military exercise involving more than 11,000 troops from 19 countries is under way in Jordan, reportedly just miles from Syria's border.

Spain and Italy will be the next victims of the European financial crisis if Greece crashes out of the euro currency zone, the head of the World Bank has warned.

Prosecutors in the trial of Ratko Mladic have described five days in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in 1995 when his troops massacred 7,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men.

Topless dancers at the renowned Crazy Horse night club in Paris have gone on strike, saying they are not being paid enough to take the shirts off their backs.

China has launched a 100-day crackdown against illegal immigration and illegal employment in the wake of a high-profile sexual assault case involving a British national who was videotaped allegedly attempting to force himself on a Chinese woman.

The world's most expensive cable car is undergoing tests in London – but authorities admit the project, which links two Olympic venues, may not open in time for this summer's Games.

U.S. immigration officials are clarifying their definition of “culturally unique” in a move that could make it easier for foreign "hybrid" or "fusion" bands to get a visa to play in America.

Penguin Number 337, which made a daring bid for freedom from a Tokyo aquarium and vanished into the waters of Tokyo Bay, has popped up on video footage in a different part of the bay, frolicking in the water and apparently healthy.

This image released by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shows a scale model of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed.

Queen Sofia of Spain has reportedly decided not to attend a lunch celebrating Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee on Friday because of a diplomatic spat over Gibraltar.

Quebec's government has moved to end a sometimes violent 14-week mass student strike in the Canadian province that officials fear could harm the economy and deter tourists.

Sometimes more money just buys more unhappiness. Take China, for example. Everyone assumed that people would get happier as their wallets got fatter. But a new study shows that the opposite occurred, at least for those at the lower end of the income spectrum.