From: Newsday on Mon, Jul 18 2011 5:19 PM

NASA’s orbiting astronauts detached a huge storage bin full of trash from the International Space Station on Monday and loaded it aboard Atlantis for the last shuttle ride back to Earth. (July 18)

From: Newsday on Mon, Jul 18 2011 5:19 PM

General David Petraeus handed over command of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan to General John Allen at a ceremony in Kabul Monday. (July 18)

From: Newsday on Mon, Jul 18 2011 1:52 PM

Following the resignation of Britain’s top police officer and amid calls for yet another Murdoch media probe _ the prime minister says he'll return from an Africa trip to face lawmakers again. AP video. (July 18)

From: Newsday on Sun, Jul 17 2011 9:30 PM

London’s police chief has quit over his links to a former News of the World editor caught up in the phone hacking scandal. Metropolitan Police commissioner Paul Stephenson denies any wrongdoing. (July 17)

From: Newsday on Sun, Jul 17 2011 6:13 PM

Authorities say a Northern California man has been arrested on suspicion of making death threats against Sen. Barbara Boxer. (July 17)

From: Newsday on Sun, Jul 17 2011 6:12 PM

The Los Angeles mayor says a 10-mile stretch of one of the nation’s busiest freeways will reopen beginning at about 11:30 a.m. because bridge work on the roadway was completed 16 hours ahead of schedule. (July 17)

From: Newsday on Sun, Jul 17 2011 6:12 PM

The Los Angeles mayor says a 10-mile stretch of one of the nation’s busiest freeways will reopen beginning at about 11:30 a.m. because bridge work on the roadway was completed 16 hours ahead of schedule. (July 17)

From: Newsday on Sun, Jul 17 2011 2:53 PM

Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s former British CEO, said she was "assisting the police with their inquiries" after being arrested Sunday in the British phone hacking and police bribery scandal. (July 17)

From: Newsday on Sun, Jul 17 2011 11:36 AM

Casey Anthony was freed from a Florida jail early Sunday, 12 days after she was acquitted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter in a verdict that provoked outrage and even threats from people across the U.S. (July 17)

From: Newsday on Sun, Jul 17 2011 11:36 AM

TWA Flight 800 explodes; Russia’s royal family executed; Disneyland opens; Nicaragua's Somoza goes into exile; Apollo and Soyuz link up in space; Baseball's Ty Cobb and jazz great John Coltrane die. (July 17)

From: Newsday on Sun, Jul 17 2011 5:04 AM

Southern Californians were making the ultimate sacrifice Saturday to avoid the dreaded "Carmageddon." Traffic flowed freely through LA, despite fears of epic traffic jams spawned by the weekend shutdown of a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 405. (July 16)

From: Newsday on Sat, Jul 16 2011 10:36 PM

Hundreds of Taiwanese farmers held a protest on Saturday to demand help from the government and to complain about the expropriation of agricultural land. (July 16)

From: Newsday on Sat, Jul 16 2011 7:18 PM

"We are sorry" the full-page ad began Saturday, as Rupert Murdoch tried to halt a phone-hacking scandal that has claimed two of his top executives. (July 16)

From: Newsday on Sat, Jul 16 2011 3:59 PM

In his weekly radio and Internet address, President Barack Obama said the wealthiest Americans must "pay their fair share." (July 16)

From: Newsday on Sat, Jul 16 2011 3:59 PM

Thirty-one of the 33 miners saved last year in a dramatic operation after 69 days trapped in a Chilean mine presented a lawsuit on Friday against the government for negligence. (July 16)

From: Newsday on Sat, Jul 16 2011 2:53 AM

President Barack Obama made note of the historic journey being made by shuttle Atlantis on Friday in a call from the Oval Office to space. (July 15)

From: Newsday on Sat, Jul 16 2011 2:50 AM

Newsday’s James Madore discussed inflation concerns on Friday's News 12. (July 15, 2011)

From: Newsday on Sat, Jul 16 2011 2:50 AM

Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of The Wall Street Journal’s publisher and the chief of his British operations as the mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal with apologies to the family a murdered schoolgirl. (July 15)

From: Newsday on Fri, Jul 15 2011 8:15 PM

It’s been almost 20 years since Tiffani Thiessen played the popular Kelly Kapowski on 'Saved by the Bell.' Justin Bieber recently wore a Thiessen t-shirt to a Canada award show. Thiessen currently stars on the TV show 'White Collar.' (July 15)

From: Newsday on Fri, Jul 15 2011 8:15 PM

Standard & Poor’s has warned that there is a 50 percent chance it will downgrade the U.S. government's credit rating within three months because of the political impasse over the nation's debt ceiling. (July 15)