Bad enough that they used their 6-year-old son in a national hoax (they\'re pleading guilty). Now, Richard and Mayumi Heene may face federal charges stemming from an ongoing civil investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration because the family\'s stunt caused some planes at the Denver airport to switch runways while the balloon was in flight.
Last Wednesday was Armistice Day, when on the \"eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month\", in 1918, the armistice was signed for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front at the end of World War I.
Four hundred years after Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for his belief in the \"plurality of worlds\" (aliens), scientists and religious leaders gathered this week at a seemingly more open-minded Vatican for a conference on astrobiology (aliens).
From Nixon, to Ford, to Reagan, Clinton and both Bushes, dealing with China has never been simple. President Barack Obama begins his first trip to China Nov. 15, with his policy toward China still largely untested. He has said little about human rights in China and last month was the first president in 20 years to refuse to meet the Dalai Lama.
Trista Joy Lathern, who claimed she was having chemotherapy for breast cancer, even shaved her head as part of the act. When supporters raised $10,000 for her, she took the money and got a $6,800 boob job.
Los Angeles police are searching for 30-year-old Miguel Herrera, wanted in a brutal attack against his girlfriend on Halloween night. The victim says she showed up late to Herrera\'s apartment that night, and they got into a argument. So he decided to teach her a lesson.
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
Mexico\'s most-wanted drug lord escaped prison by hiding in a laundry truck nearly a decade ago, and his legend and fortune seem to grow with each passing day he eludes capture.