In a press conference at her home on Friday, Sarah Palin announced that she would not run for re-election and will resign from office later this month. In a brief statement, Palin gave no reason for her decision and took no questions. Complete video of her resignation after the jump.

U.S. drone missiles struck a training facility and militant communication center run by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud on Friday. The attacks, which killed 17 and wounded 27 others, took place in South Waziristan, a Mehsud stronghold close to the Afghan in Pakistan.

Ruth Madoff, wife of disgraced Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, was escorted out of their $7 million penthouse Thursday, but not before she asked to keep her fur coat.

U.S. marines pushed deeper into Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday. The troops found little resistance as they worked to win over local chiefs on the second day of the largest military offensive of Obama's presidency.

The Senate Democrats unveiled their long-awaited health care bill Thursday, with the support of President Barack Obama thrown fully behind it. The Democrats say that the bill will cover 97 percent of Americans, and will require employers to offer health benefits to their workers.

The traditional Fourth of July cocktail of alcohol, sun, explosives and barbeques is a lethal recipe for disaster. Take, for example, the young man who fell face down on an improvised spit, and ended up with prongs for the roast piercing his stomach and jutting out his back.

President Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency will carry out a plan left over from President George W. Bush's reign and screen government computer traffic on public sites, in the name of national cybersecurity and finding vulnerabilities in the government's network.