The stock market had one of its most turbulent days in history as the Dow Jones industrials dropped almost 1,000 points in less than half an hour on fears that Greece’s debt problems could halt the global economic recovery.
Indian officials sentenced to death Thursday the only surviving gunman from the bloody Mumbai attacks, punishing the 22-year-old Pakistani man who became the face of the assault after being caught on video storming a train station armed with an assault rifle.
Riding the coattails of a historic health care vote, the House on Sunday also passed a broad reorganization of college aid that affects millions of students and moves President Barack Obama closer to winning yet another of his top domestic policies.
U.S. Rep. Baron Hill said Saturday that he will vote in favor of health care reform legislation being considered by Congress because the measure addresses his concerns about taxpayer-funded abortions and deficit reduction.
Ellen DeGeneres’ debut on “American Idol” drove up ratings for the singing contest and drew praise from fellow judge Kara DioGuardi.
The groundhog has spoken. And it’s bad news.
A federal agency says it has finished the cleanup of toxic PCBs at a former electrical components factory in Bloomington.
DANA, Ind. — The state historic site featuring famed World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle’s Indiana boyhood home has been closed.
INDIANAPOLIS — Former President George W. Bush is to visit Indianapolis this spring for a fundraiser benefiting a group that assists women with unplanned pregnancies.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A former Purdue University student has pleaded guilty to firing the shot that killed a friend during an alcohol-fueled prank at an off-campus apartment.
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith is seen in this Feb 13, 1998 booking photo from the Champaign County, Ill., Sheriff's Department. Police were searching for Smith, who allegedly was driving a blue Ford Taurus and sped away after firing four shots into a crowd of worshippers as they left a Korean church Sunday morning, July 4, 1999, in Bloomington, Ind.
Hoagy Carmichael is pictured in 1953. Carmichael's 115th birthday is Saturday.
Luke Cody leads law enforcement officers toward the start of the annual Indiana State Police Memorial Service Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at the Indiana State Police Lafayette Post near West Lafayette, Ind. (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, Michael Heinz)
Pilots line-up their hot air balloons as they prepare to drop their competition marker during the Founders Race at the Centennial Era Balloon Festival in Indianapolis, Sunday, May 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
School children look and touch an elephant artwork in Trafalgar Square in London, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. The London Elephant Parade 2010 will see the capital taken over by 260 life-size baby elephants, all hand-painted by an assortment of established and emerging talent from the art and design world.(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
The sun shines over floodwater from the Cumberland River still covering a street in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. The river began to recede Tuesday after being swollen by heavy rain and the flooding creeks that feed into it. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Riot police stand behind a burning roadblock in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Deadly riots over harsh new austerity measures engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, and three people were killed as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets as part of nationwide strikes to protest new taxes and government spending cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund and other European nations before heavily indebted Greece gets a $141 billion bailout package of loans to keep it from defaulting.
Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., speaks to people demonstrating against the health care bill on the U.S. Capitol steps a day before Congress is set to vote on health care reform on Saturday on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Workers clean and repair broken parts of a marble tablet bearing Google's logo in front of Google China's headquarters building in Beijing on Jan. 25. Google's future in China is in limbo and observers around the world are carefully tracking its dispute with Beijing. But one group is notably lukewarm on the fate of the Internet giant in the world's most populous online market: many of China's 384 million Internet users.
President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday.
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