WASHINGTON Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space. In remote Antarctica, about one-and-a-half times bigger than the United States, researchers have been unable to figure out just where...

LOS ANGELES A judge placed former 'Columbo' star's Peter Falk in a conservatorship Monday to ensure his daughter could occasionally visit the ailing 81-year-old actor. Falk's wife of more than 30 years, Shera, will remain in control of his...

NBC News' Brian Williams went behind the scenes at the White House, getting footage of President Obama and his staff at work. His team 150 hours of footage shot for the program/ 'There's stuff we've never seen of how the White House operates...

US News and World Report: When Maine's two U.S.senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, broke ranks with all but one other Republican and voted 'Yes' on President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus, they handed the White House an early...

Dick Cheney finally explained last night in a brief interview with the Sleuth how he has suddenly transformed himself from the most secretive man in government to the country's biggest motormouth. We caught the once-silent, now-chatty former vice...

NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley says it will raise $2.2 billion through a stock offering to help satisfy preconditions for repaying a government loan it received last fall amid the deepening credit crisis.

Shortly before President Obama departs for a trip to the Middle East, a new national poll suggests that one in five Americans has a favorable view of Muslim countries. That view compares with 46 percent of the people questioned in a CNN/Opinion...

Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini has been unveiled at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium as the new coach of Spanish giants Real Madrid, signing a two-year deal with the side. Pellegrini moves from La Liga rivals Villareal, where he helped guide the...

Setanta missed 3 mln stg SPL payment-report * Setanta declines to comment LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) - Irish pay-TV broadcaster Setanta, which is in talks with sporting bodies to renegotiate rights terms, has missed a 3 million pound ($4.9 million...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Home Secretary (interior minister) Jacqui Smith is to resign her government post, Sky News reported on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for Smith's office said she could not confirm or deny the report and a spokesman for Prime...