About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, an official says.

Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Monday to participate in a ceremony marking the end of the U.S. combat mission there, according to the White House.

President Obama's vacation may have provided a much needed recharge as he jumps back into thorny issues this week.

BP plans to start a procedure today to pave the way for a permanent plug for its blown-out Gulf oil well. Crews will start by removing the cap that began trapping oil in the well last month.

Seven International Security Assistance Force servicemembers were killed in two incidents Monday in southern Afghanistan, the military said.

American graduate student David Gimelfarb vanished a year ago while hiking in Costa Rica. He is one of three men who disappeared in Costa Rica in 2009.

If current polls are a guide, the midterm elections probably won't be good for President Obama and his party. The Democrats are in danger of losing control of the House of Representatives and of seeing their majority in the Senate diminish.

Forecast to gain "major" Category 3 status, Hurricane Earl was bearing down on the northern Leeward Islands Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.

On the 47th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on Saturday, the first sight on the National Mall for thousands of marchers was a four-story art installation that displayed four images and quotations of Martin Luther King Jr..

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck says his weekend revival-style rally at the Lincoln Memorial was meant to reclaim the U.S. civil rights movement "from politics," arguing that the movement was about "people of faith."

A motorist fired pepper spray Saturday at a group of demonstrators and counter-protesters outside a funeral for a U.S. Marine in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.

Despite concerns from U.S. officials and others, Pakistan says it not aware of any threat against international aid workers helping with flood relief efforts.

South Korean prime minister-designate Kim Tae-ho and two other nominees announced their resignations Sunday, amid corruption allegations that surfaced during their confirmation hearings, the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.

Sadness and anger have greeted claims of a betting scam linked to the Pakistani cricket team during its major international match with England in London last week.

The bodies of five kidnapped parliamentary campaign workers were found Sunday in a remote district of Herat province in western Afghanistan, said Naqibullah Arwin, spokesman for the provincial governor.

An explosive device detonated Saturday three blocks away from a mass honoring 72 migrants found slain near the Mexican border, state media reported.

The 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for more than three weeks could get a chance to talk directly with family members for the first time today.

The death toll from Pakistan's massive flooding could rise substantially as flood waters recede and more bodies surface, government officials say.

Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck struck a spiritual tone in opening remarks at his "Restoring Honor" rally today. "America today begins to turn back to God," he told the crowd.

The 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine have been told for the first time that they will be stranded up to four months. But a proposed "Plan B" may hasten their rescue.