Posted: 5:48 AM Iraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Posted: 5:46 AM The $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase has renewed calls for stricter oversight of Wall Street banks.

Posted: 5:38 AM Lady Gaga might have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia because police worry her sexy clothes and dance moves undermine Islamic values and will corrupt the country's youth.

Posted: 5:36 AM A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan Tuesday morning on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a four-and-half-month stay at the International Space Station.

Posted: 5:32 AM Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll.

Posted: 4:09 AM Starting this week, women will be assigned to serve in Army combat battalions under a pilot program in a move that more accurately reflects how women have been serving alongside infantry units for years.

Posted: 10:49 PM A last-ditch effort by Colorado's governor to give gay couples rights similar to married couples in the state has failed.

Posted: 5:57 PM The chief investment officer at JPMorgan Chase (JPM), one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street, will retire, the company said Monday. She becomes the first casualty of the bank's $2 billion trading blunder.

Posted: 5:48 PM Texas Rep. Ron Paul said on Monday he will no longer be actively campaigning in the GOP presidential primaries but won't formally suspend his campaign.

Posted: 5:47 PM Law enforcement officers in Southern California searched in rugged mountain terrain for a second day on Sunday for a missing FBI agent who was said to be despondent and possibly suicidal.

Posted: 5:39 PM Over the weekend, the 24-year-old psychology graduate student's friends and family updated a blog on the University of West Georgia psychology department's student website.

Posted: 5:36 PM After weeks of testimony about John Edwards' illicit affair and the money used to cover it up, his defense attorneys opened their case Monday by digging into the details of federal campaign finance law.

Posted: 5:27 PM Authorities investigating two slayings on Mississippi highways said Monday they're concerned the victims may have been killed by someone who posed as law enforcement to pull them over late at night.

Posted: 2:09 PM The more traditional Sophia is the new top name for girls, while Jacob is No. 1 for boys for the 13th straight year, according to the list released Monday by the Social Security Administration.

Posted: 5:41 AM One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds.

Posted: 5:24 AM The Diaz family awoke to find a Lexus at the bottom of their swimming pool.

Posted: 5:21 AM Mohammed al-Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when NATO accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept.

Posted: 5:18 AM Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.

Posted: 5:16 AM One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement.

Posted: 5:12 AM From his prison cell, a senior Pakistani officer accused of plotting with a shadowy Islamist organization to take over the military released his political manifesto.

Posted: 5:11 AM President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning "super" political committee wants to bring them to the GOP's side.

Posted: 2:23 PM Former NASA investigator Joe Gutheinz has been on a quest to recover moon rocks.

Posted: 12:52 PM A Florida postal worker says he became seriously ill after he handled a mysterious leaking package from Yemen. But the Postal Service denies the package ever existed.

Posted: 11:55 AM Chicago authorities say a speeding car hit a support beam of an elevated train, crashing with enough force to split in two and killing four passengers.

Posted: 11:52 AM Some Alabama farmers say they are planting less produce rather than risk having crops rot in the fields a second straight year because of labor shortages linked to the state's crackdown on illegal immigration.