NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Republican congressman and father of "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi tossed his hat into the New York Senate race Tuesday in an bid to challenge Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Joseph DioGuardi, an accountant who served two terms in the House of Representatives in the 1980s, said he was running for the Republican Senate ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge froze the assets of Russian hackers who allegedly hijacked online brokerage accounts and then placed unauthorized trades in order to manipulate markets. The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday that U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell had granted its request on Monday to freeze the assets of BroCo Investments Inc and Valery Maltsev ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday a U.S.-Israeli dispute over Jewish settlement plans does not alter the United States' long-standing commitment to Israel's security. "Mature bilateral relationships can have disagreements and this is one of those disagreements," he said. "It does not break the unbreakable bond we have" with Israel on its security ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prosecutors claimed Tuesday to have solved the high-profile slaying of a Russian Orthodox priest in Moscow, saying a man shot dead by police in the Dagestan province was carrying the gun used to kill the priest. The November killing of Daniil Sysoyev, who had reported receiving death threats for preaching to Muslims, threatened the delicate relations between Russia ...