Courtesy Corwin Family(TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif.) -- The wife of a Marine who vanished nearly one month ago had suffered a miscarriage a few months before her disappearance, a close friend said. She was pregnant again at the time she was reported missing, according to police.

Police said Erin Corwin was last seen on June 28 before telling her husband she was going on a hike in Joshua Tree Nationa...

iStock/Thinkstock(NAIROBI, Kenya) -- The Peace Corps is suspending its entire volunteer program in Kenya as a result of security concerns in the region, a U.S. State Department official announced Thursday.

The organization has been monitoring the environment in the country, along with the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.

"The Peace Corps plans to continue to monitor the security environment and reasses...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House cleared a procedural hurdle on Thursday to set up a showdown between House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama next week.

The House Rules Committee voted 7-4 to approve a markup of H. Res. 676, which provides authority to initiate litigation for actions by the president or other executive branch officials inconsistent with their duties ...

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Stock prices ended the day mixed on Wall Street Thursday, following good news on jobless claims and mixed quarterly earnings results from several companies.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost three points, finishing at 17083.80, the Nasdaq Composite fell two points at 4472.11, and the SP 500 gained one to end at 1987.98.

Investors received positive news regard...

Focus Features/Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) -- The first official trailer for the highly-anticipated film Fifty Shades of Grey was released on Thursday.

The trailer follows Dakota Johnson, portraying college student Anastasia Steele, as she interviews billionaire Christian Grey, played by Jamie Dornan. If you've read E.L. James' erotic novel, on which the film is based, you'll recognize many sce...

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The recent flurry of air disasters does little to comfort nervous fliers, who suffer from what some experts call a perfect storm of fears.

You start with fear, and then you have evidence that the fear is correct, said George Everly, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore. What makes it over the top is when you dont know why the airplane c...