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Former Chief of Staff for ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) reaches plea deal in attempted sale of Obama's Senate seat and agrees to cooperate.

Government investigators smuggled bomb-making materials into federal buildings past the police agency charged with protecting those buildings and found numerous other gaps in security, according to a congressional report.

Investigators have heard a signal from the flight data recorders of the Yemenia Airways plane that crashed last week, they announced Sunday.

The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced today.

Authorities are pursuing charges against 10 more people in the Bernard Madoff financial scandal after the mastermind of one of the biggest financial frauds in history was sentenced to spend the rest of his days behind bars, The Associated Press has learned.

A lawyer for the doctor who was with Michael Jackson when he died says the physician found the entertainer in his bed with a faint pulse.

Investigators also find evidence that the train was in automatic mode, meaning the onboard computer should have slowed it down.

French investigators say more than 400 pieces of Flight 447 have been recovered in the Atlantic.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei orders a high-level clerical panel to investigate.

The independent forensics expert who examined David Carradine’s body says the actor didn’t commit suicide, and Carradine’s brothers are asking for understanding as Thai authorities investigate.