Peter Willcox of Norwalk, Connecticut, is the sole American citizen in a group of Greenpeace activists  charged with piracy in Russia

Transit workers in California's Bay Area went on strike Friday for the second time in three months -- a move that will once again hamper the commutes of thousands

A federal agent will be allowed to write a book with an insider's account of Operation Fast and Furious, But John Dodson, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, won't be allowed to make money on the book.

(CNN) -- Maxine Powell, the mentor behind the smooth success and individual charm of Motown Records' stars for almost five decades, died Monday, the Detroit Free Press reported. She was 98.

Twitter users can now let any person, company or, presumably, drunken green monster send them private messages on the site.

The football player was arrested and charged with sexual assault. His friend was also charged with recording at least a part of the incident on an iPhone.

(CNN) -- A computer failure temporarily halted the processing of food stamp purchases in parts of the country Saturday.

(CNN) -- Groundbreaking research that reshaped the way economists and investors look at how markets work has earned three American professors the Nobel Prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday.

Convicted kidnapper Ariel Castro killed himself, the Ohio medical examiner who conducted his autopsy says, disputing assertions that the convicted kidnapper and rapist may have died by accident.

A group of rabbis face kidnapping charges after allegedly arranging assaults of Orthodox Jewish husbands to persuade them to grant divorces to their wives