Major League Baseball is set to suspend some 20 players in the coming weeks due to a scandal involving performance-enhancing drugs, according to an ESPN report.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales entered a guilty plea Wednesday in the killings of 16 Afghan civilians in hopes of avoiding a death sentence.

(CNN) -- The Internal Revenue Service spent millions of taxpayer dollars on everything from event planners' commissions to speakers' fees to guest prizes to parody videos at a 2010 conference, an audit of the agency shows.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Mississippi man was indicted Monday in the mailing of ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and two other officials.

WEST ALTON, Missouri (CNN) -- The Mississippi and Missouri rivers appear to be cresting Tuesday, suggesting there may be relief ahead for West Alton, which was facing severe flooding, according to a county spokeswoman.

(CNN) -- Supporters of Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused in the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, have adopted the phrase: "I am Bradley Manning."

(CNN) -- Oklahoma had barely started clearing the rubble from a monstrous tornado two weeks ago when another rash of twisters plowed through this swath of Tornado Alley.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has ruled criminal suspects can be subjected to a police DNA test after arrest -- before trial and conviction -- a privacy-versus-public-safety dispute that could have wide-reaching implications in the rapidly evolving technology surrounding criminal procedure.

(CNN) -- New York eighth-grader Arvind Mahankali is the fiercest speller around. No word can foil him, as he proved Thursday when he beat out other Scripps National Spelling Bee contestants by spelling "knaidel" correctly.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Justice Department officials expressed a commitment to review the agency's leak investigation guidelines so that "reporters would not be at legal risk" for doing their jobs, according to an editor who attended a meeting between news executives and Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday.