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  • ** FILE ** Afghan woman peers through the the eye slit of her burqa as she waits to try on a new burqa in shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 11, 2013. Religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday, May 18, 2013 that aims to protect women's freedoms. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

    Afghan rape victims still subject to criminal charges: Women's rights legislation blocked

    Religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience.

  • Mom hunts down child abductor in car chase, rescues daughter

    Melissa Torrez didn't even think when teenagers in her apartment complex said a man had just grabbed her 4-year-old girl and drove away.

  • **FILE** A copper weather vane shaped like a witch on a broom sits atop a house in St. Georgen in the Black Forest region in southwestern Germany on January 21, 1997. (Associated Press)

    Witches can't fly brooms above 150 meters in Swaziland

    Witches in Swaziland — where witchcraft is serious business — aren't cleared to fly their broomsticks higher than 150 meters and violators may be arrested and fined.

  • U.S. Attorney David B. Barlow, of Utah, speaks during an interview at his office Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Salt Lake City. U.S. authorities in Idaho said they have arrested Fazliddin Kurbanov, a man from Uzbekistan accused of conspiring with a designated terrorist organization in his home country and helping scheme to use a weapon of mass destruction. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

    Feds arrest Idaho man on terror charges

    Federal agents arrested an Uzbekistan man in Idaho on ties to terrorism, claiming he provided cash and support to a militant group in his country in order to carry out an attack on unspecified targets.

  • Jets RB Goodson facing drug, weapons charges

    New York Jets running back Mike Goodson is facing drug and weapons charges after he was found in a car with an acquaintance early Friday morning on Interstate 80 in New Jersey.

  • Frances B. Monson, wife of Mormon Church president, dies at 85

    The wife of the president of the Mormon church has died.

  • **FILE** Yale University president Richard Levin (right) leads a procession May 21, 2012, during Yale's commencement exercises in New Haven, Conn. (Associated Press)

    Feds fine Yale $165K for unreported sex crimes

    The federal Clery Act requires colleges to report campus crime statistics in a timely manner, and accompany those statistics with pertinent safety advisements — but apparently Yale didn't get the memo. The Ivy League school's been fined $165,000 for failing to report its local crime numbers.

  • ** FILE ** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference at Lucky's Cafe in New York, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

    Ex-Bloomberg guard admits gunshot cover-up

    A former security guard for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — one of the most vociferous voice in America for gun control — admitted Thursday that he shot at his then-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend and then covered it up, concerned about the national attention it would bring his unit.

  • ** FILE ** This U.S. Army photo made available by the Russell family on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, shows U.S. Army Sgt. John M. Russell. Russell pleaded guilty Monday to killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in 2009 at mental health clinic in Baghdad during the Iraq War. The plea agreement in a military court at Joint Base Lewis-McChord means Russell will avoid the death sentence. (AP Photo/Family photo)

    Army combat stress expert gets life sentence for shooting 5 soldiers in Iraq

    An Army sergeant who worked at a combat stress clinic in Iraq but went on a rampage and killed five colleagues in 2009 was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

  • U.S District Judge Susan Webber Wright poses in a February 1998 handout photo in Little Rock, Ark. (Associated Press)

    Ark. 'heartbeat' abortion law blocked

    A federal judge Friday temporarily blocked a first-of-its-kind Arkansas law that would effectively have prevented most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

  • IRS sued for seizing 60 million medical records

    A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, charging they wrongfully seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans.

  • David Gregory holding a 30-round magazine at NBC's Washington bureau (NBC/Meet the Press)

    MILLER: D.C. mayor is part of David Gregory coverup in Part III of investigation

    Since D.C. officials refused to turn over any documents about their investigation and decision not to prosecute NBC News’ David Gregory, we have to depend on the Freedom of Information Act to force transparency. Mayor Vincent Gray’s office, however, responded by deflecting my request. It turned out, he was hiding information.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Petraeus' payback?

    President Obama is the most vindictive, thin-skinned president we have ever had. Does anyone want to take a bet that then-CIA chief David H. Petraeus' sex-scandal downfall is punishment for him not falling in line completely with the much-revised Benghazi talking points of the White House? Around Sept. 20, Mr. Petraeus disputed the revised version of the talking points. On Nov. 7, the story of his affair came out.

  • Karima el-Mahroug's is escorted outside the Milan's Law court by two Carabinieri police officers after giving her testimony at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides accused with procuring her and other woman for prostitution, in Milan, Italy, Friday, May 17, 2013. Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring show girls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but also dressed as President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

    Inside Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties: Strippers dressed like Obama

    Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring show girls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but also dressed as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal.

  • **FILE** House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 15, 2013. (Associated Press)

    House GOP issues subpoena in Benghazi investigation

    The chairman of the House oversight committee on Friday subpoenaed the senior diplomat who ran the State Department's investigation into the Benghazi attack, saying lawmakers deserve to be able to depose him before he testifies publicly.

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