Construction workers bolted a 408-foot spire into place atop One World Trade Center on Friday, making it the tallest building in the Western hemisphere at 1,776 feet.

Tattoos have had a variety of purposes over their 5,000-year history. In cultures from ancient Egyptian to Polynesian, they've served as medicine, rite of passage, good-luck charm, punishment, decoration, religious, political or status symbol, and, of course, tribute to a loved one.

Rescue crews scoured the waters off Australia's eastern coast Friday for two cruise ship passengers who are believed to have fallen overboard.

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto says she has been threatened and called "worse than Hitler" because she is a noncustodial parent.

Vince Warren says President Obama chooses to force feed hunger strikers at Gitmo, a form of torture, and should be shutting the prison down instead.

David Rothkopf says investigation into Benghazi is worthy, but Rep. Issa's committee hearings were for something different: To damage the one most likely to be next Democratic presidential candidate.

Randy Jackson, the last original "American Idol" judge, announced Thursday that he's voting himself off the hit singing competition program after the current season ends.

CNN exclusive: One of the daughters of an Ohio man accused of holding three women against their will for the better part of a decade said that pieces of her father's life she didn't understand are falling into place.

A Florida man fleeing a traffic stop almost got away, police say. Until he met up with an alligator.

Michael Jackson appeared paranoid, repeating himself and shivering from chills in his final days, his longtime makeup artist testified Thursday.