BOSTON – Jurors in the kidnapping trial of a German-born man calling himself Clark Rockefeller have asked the judge for more explanation on the insanity defense. The jurors sent a written question to Judge Frank Gaziano Wednesday asking exactly what prosecutors must prove to show Rockefeller was sane when he …

Health officials say a 48-year-old Pennsylvania woman who died at an upstate New York hospital had swine flu. Orange County officials say the woman had respiratory distress and other medical problems besides the flu and had been sick for a week before she sought treatment. According to hospital spokeswoman Deborah …

VIENNA – The U.S. and Canada challenged Iran’s claims that hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election, but much of the rest of the world remained silent Saturday despite claims of fraud and scenes of clashes on the streets of Tehran. For the Middle East and West alike, the stakes were high. …

People who suffer from depression are much more likely to be prescribed powerful opioid painkillers like morphine and codeine and to stay on the drugs long-term, new research shows. What’s more, they are often prescribed these more potent medications at higher doses, Dr. Jennifer Brennan Braden of the University of …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from November 9, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN, I-CT, HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: We don’t know enough to say now, but there …

ORLANDO, Fla. – An AT&T employee was arrested and charged with making a bomb threat to the company’s Orlando office. Police say 49-year-old John Dattoma called in the threat from a pay phone Monday in a supermarket parking lot near the office building. Investigators had traced the threatening call to …

Pink, slimy and repellent, the Nomura’s jellyfish is an authentic horror of the deep that’s been assaulting Japan. Now the creatures have sunk a 10-ton fishing trawler. The boat was capsized off Chiba in Japan, as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge …

FRENCH SETTLEMENT, La. – Hunters searching for signs of deer in a wooded area inside the town limits of French Settlement, instead found the skeletal remains of a human. Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputies say numerous bones were scattered within a 50-yard radius, about 150 yards off Hwy 42. Clothing, including …

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. – A Clay County man undergoing a divorce shot and killed his two sleeping children while his wife was showering and then shot himself, authorities said. Jerry Whitelaw, 49, killed his son, Kevin, 16, and daughter, Katie, 11, as they slept in their home on Fleming …

ATLANTA – Plainclothes officers shot and killed a small-town pastor when the 28-year-old father-to-be resisted efforts to question him about a passenger in his car who was the target of a drug sting, authorities said. Jonathan Paul Ayers of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia wasn’t targeted in the probe …