WASHINGTON – The U.S. envoy to the United Nations said Sunday that the Obama administration hopes two American journalists detained in North Korea will be released swiftly and safely. Still, Ambassador Susan Rice acknowledged there are no guarantees. Rice said the United States is continuing to work with Swedish diplomats …

Seth Rogen may play a mall cop in his new movie, but malls weren’t his primary hang-out when he was a kid. “I was more of a smoking weed behind the 7-Eleven guy,” Rogen told FOX News Tuesday at the premiere of “Observe and Report.” “So yeah, didn’t go to …

The Treasury Department is directing General Motors to prepare for a bankruptcy filing by June 1, despite GM’s assertion that it could still reorganize without such a filing, The New York Times reported unnamed sources as saying on Monday. Members of President Obama’s automotive task force are said to have …

As Roxana Saberi’s release brings her closer to a return to the U.S., there’s someone at Northwestern University hoping she’ll find time for a visit when she gets back. “I hope to see her right here at Medill talking about her experiences so she can relate to the students what …

The boyfriend of a New York teenager who disappeared on spring break in Myrtle Beach said someone knows what happened to her, but he doesn’t believe the male friends she visited there are involved. John Grieco said his girlfriend Brittanee Drexel never told him about the group, including Peter Broswick …

TEXARKANA, Ark. – The mother of a Trinity Christian School student says schoool officials pressured her daughter into revealing her pregnancy and forced the girl into medical testing and counseling without notifying her family. A lawsuit alleging false imprisonment and civil rights violations names the school’s principal, Bible teacher, counselor …

RICHMOND, Va. – Before John Allen Muhammad went to trial for orchestrating the deadly sniper rampage that terrorized the Washington, D.C., region, he claimed he was a prophet and that his teenage accomplice had concocted an herbal AIDS cure, his lawyers say. Despite such grandiose statements and evidence that Muhammad’s …

Madonna’s rumored boyfriend, 22-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz is breaking his silence on the relationship saying he and the pop icon are just friends. “She is my friend, only my friend,” the model said in a Brazilian television interview. “Madonna is a person who I admire very much, a friend …

RICHMOND, Va. – State officials still don’t know the extent to which a hacker compromised Virginia’s prescription drug monitoring system. Health and Human Resources Secretary Marilyn Tavenner told the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday that authorities are still assessing what a hacker did on April 30 when millions of electronic prescription …

Many Americans who need to see a family physician or specialist may have to wait weeks or even months for an appointment, a new survey suggests. People living in and around Boston need to have the most patience, according to the survey, which attempted to gauge average wait times for …