Search results for

The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt more than 80 years ago and is a presence in dozens of Muslim countries. Then-President Hosni Mubarak outlawed the group, but it is now legal and competing openly in the country's parliamentary elections.

The 17-year-old soccer goalie who allegedly punched and killed a referee during a game in Utah last month faces a charge of "homicide by assault" and may be tried as an adult.

In eight years, New York police made 4.4 million stops. Eighty-percent of the people stopped were minorities, and nine out of 10 times they were not charged with a crime. The judge has appointed an independent monitor to oversee the program.

Ichiro Suzuki got his 4000th hit on Wednesday, joining Ty Cobb and Pete Rose as the only baseball players to reach that milestone.

Also: the Women's Prize gets a new sponsor; the best books coming out this week.

Also: Leon Panetta is writing a book; Alexander McCall Smith buys some islands.

Crime novelist Robert Galbraith was outed as British author J.K. Rowling of the Harry Potter books fame. Reporters were tipped off to Galbraith's true identity by an anonymous tweet, and they turned to an unlikely source to confirm Rowling's authorship: a computer science professor at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University.

Researchers usually identify natural predators or parasites to combat invasive bugs like the brown marmorated stink bug and the psyllid. But after not finding immediate solutions, they are turning to pesticides and nutrient sprays.

The owners of a California condo resort say they went into a unit to do some work and were quickly grabbed by the man who authorities say had already killed three people and was determined to take revenge on his former police colleagues.

Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto, grew up under the dark, open skies of the rural Midwest. Streator, Ill., where he once lived, has been full of celebration during NASA's flyby this week.