If Mayumi Heene confessed to a hoax involving her boy in a runaway baloon — as alleged in a search warrant  — it may have been to keep her children from being taken away,  legal experts say.

A gay Brazilian man has been denied asylum by the Obama administration and won't be reunited with his American husband in the U.S., the husband said Monday.

The two pilots from the Northwest Airlines plane that overflew its Minneapolis destination by 150 miles tell federal investigators they were going over scheduling on their laptops at the time.