Authorities said the wife of a former judge has confessed to being involved in the shooting deaths of a North Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor
The U.S. Senate defeated a compromise plan in a vote 54-46 to expand background checks on firearms sale as well as a proposal to ban some semi-automatic weapons modeled after military assault weapons.
Two New York City publications are taking harsh criticism for their coverage of the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks.
Investigators in Washington and Boston denied Wednesday that an arrest had been made in the bombing of the Boston Marathon. They had earlier said there was "substantial" progress in the case.
