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Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey said an autopsy found a Wal-Mart worker died of asphyxiation related to his trampling at a store on Long Island, N.Y.

The U.S. warned India's government about a potential maritime attack on Mumbai at least a month before last week's massacre left 179 dead, a U.S. counterterrorism official says. Since the attacks, India made clear it believes they originated in Pakistan, but the government is under pressure to explain the lapse of security that allowed the siege to occur.

Consumer spending worries also drove stocks lower today.

FEMA criticized over its handling of Hurricane Ike cleanup in Texas.

Singer's brother-in-law is accused of killing her mother, brother and nephew.

Scientist sues Nikon for allegedly taking his flat-screen TV idea.

Facebook, MySpace and similar Internet sites were created as social networks. Now they are being used to try to change societies.

NSA now tracking captured phones, U.S. connections.

Chicago police arrested William Balfour in the deaths of three relatives of actress Jennifer Hudson, a police spokesman said. Balfour, the estranged husband of Hudson's sister, was first detained for questioning on October 24, the day Hudson's mother and brother were found shot to death. The body of her 7-year-old nephew was found three days later.

As the boy, 13, looks up from his Mumbai hospital bed, his adult brother rests a hand on the boy's forehead, almost shielding him from the pain he does not yet know -- his parents, uncle and three cousins were among the 179 killed across the city in last week's terrorist attacks. His brother decided to withhold the news while the boy recovers: "He's just a kid."

For Palestinian Muslims who just can't fit the five-times-a-day Salah prayer routine into their busy schedules, an Israeli mobile phone provider has a new solution: Mobile Koran.

After eight years as senator from New York, Hillary Clinton is trading places, moving from Congress to the incoming administration.

Federal tax returns and other reports confirm that she’s accepted at least $5 million for her self-named South African girls' school from perhaps Barack Obama's single greatest political enemy.

Police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation.

A Florida man was shot at a Miami mall during an apparent armed robbery, the Miami Herald reports.

Apologies to the millions of men out there, but Kim Kardashian is done baring her body