Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more tech savvy, have begun to stem the online information flow from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say. Once emboldened by an ability to dodge the government and spread news, many in the youth-driven protest movement, they say, now fear the consequences.

Michael Jackson appeared active in a video -- obtained by CNN -- of his rehearsal two nights before he died. AEG, promoter of Jackson's planned London shows, released the short video of Jackson rehearsing "They Don't Care About Us" on a stage in the Staples Center arena on June 23.

Police in Texas used a Taser on a 42-year-old pastor and pepper spray to disperse members of his church after police said the pastor interfered with a traffic stop.

Wendell Potter says he is finished defending the insurance industry, which he says is "beholden to Wall Street."

The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced today. "The plane went straight down," investigator Alain Bouillard said.

Juliane Koepcke is not someone you'd expect to attract attention. Plainly dressed and wearing prescription glasses, Koepcke sits behind her desk at the Zoological Center in Munich, Germany, where she's a librarian.

A U.S. soldier has been captured by militants in Afghanistan, the U.S. military and the Taliban said Thursday.

Police wonder whether a photo might lead to the bodies of two children who disappeared in June 1979. The photo of a stone marker was found in the cell of the man convicted of murdering the children and their mother. Dozens of tips came in when the photo was released a decade ago, but police have been unable to find the marker.

A 44-year-old woman faces charges of child abuse after she gave birth in a portable toilet and deliberately dropped the newborn into the waste tank, according to police in Cambridge, Maryland.

Debra Bader was taking a walk in the woods with her 53-year-old husband one morning when suddenly he collapsed. At first she thought the situation was hopeless.