Irving Fryar, a former NFL star who played 17 seasons variously for the New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles, and Washington Redskins, was sentenced to five years in prison as a result of a fraud scheme he carried out with his 74-year-old mother, Allene McGhee.
McDonald's and Coca-Cola, two of the largest sponsors of FIFA and its events, have both publicly called for Sepp Blatter, the organization's president, to resign because he is at the focus of an international corruption investigation.
Tesla Motors, the electric car company of PayPal founder Elon Musk, has ventured into the SUV market with its new Model X, which the company just unveiled.
A new piece of research says that fingerprints not only provide information about a person's identity, but also their genetic heritage, as scientists say that certain traits in fingerprints can determine if someone is of African or European origin.
Russia has begun launching airstrikes on targets in Syria, the culmination of a military build up in the country that has been taking place for weeks.
Ralph Lauren, the fashion mastermind behind the Calvin Klein and Polo brands, will be ending his tenure as CEO of the company that bears his name.
Shell has said that it will stop drilling in the Arctic, causing celebration among environmental activists who had sought to stop the company from exploring for oil in the polar north through various protest actions.
The Taliban has regained control of a major city as the Afghanistan government continues to be ineffective against the group without strong U.S. support.
The death toll from the deadly stampede in Mecca during the annual Hajj, the largest regular migration of humans on the planet, has risen to 769, according to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health.
A U.S. trained rebel group handed over a quarter of their supplies to the Al Qaeda affiliated al Nusra front in a major setback for the U.S. effort to create a group of "moderate" rebels on the ground to affect the outcome on the ground of the Syrian Civil War.
Two men have been arrested for abducting two teenage girls at gunpoint, drugging, and raping them in a small Oregon town.
Stuart Parnell, an executive with a peanut shipping company, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for his role in a salmonella outbreak in 2008 and 2009 that killed 9 people.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is suspending his race for president as he trails frontrunners Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump by huge margins.
A zookeeper in New Zealand is dead after the Sumatran tiger she was caring for attacked her.
A new poll shows that 75 % of U.S. adults believe that corruption is "widespread" throughout the government.
