Posted: 8:01 AM Two BP rig supervisors and a former executive are scheduled to be arraigned on criminal charges stemming from the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the company's response to its massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Updated: 8:19 AM Visions of lifelong riches are surely dancing in the heads of those rushing to buy lottery tickets for Wednesday night's $500 million Powerball jackpot.
Posted: 6:55 AM President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less.
Posted: 6:05 AM Lottery officials say nobody has won the Powerball jackpot and the top prize will now increase to about $425 million for the next drawing, the largest jackpot ever for the game.
Posted: 6:00 AM When the next Congress cranks up in January, there will be more women, many new faces and 11 fewer tea party-backed House Republicans from the class of 2010.
Updated: 12:59 PM President Barack Obama is pardoning two turkeys in an annual Thanksgiving rite.
Posted: 12:47 PM It will be a subdued Thanksgiving for families hit hard by Superstorm Sandy.
Posted: 7:53 AM A documentary about an inmate on Florida's death row says the convicted killer might have been involved in the murder of O.J. Simpson's wife and her friend.
Posted: 6:35 AM Ten months into 2012, the number of suspected suicides by active-duty soldiers has surpassed last year's total, even as the Pentagon struggles to stem the persistent problem.
Posted: 6:28 AM Twinkie lovers, relax.
Posted: 4:55 PM A southwest Missouri man is accused of plotting to open fire inside a movie theater during a screening of the new "Twilight" film.
Posted: 10:41 AM Coast Guard officials say an oil rig has exploded off the coast of Louisiana, sending four people to hospitals. Two are believed to be missing.
Posted: 8:32 AM Federal accident investigators say the government should require auto manufacturers to include the latest collision prevention technologies as standard equipment on all new cars and trucks.
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Posted: 7:47 AM Investor Warren Buffett says there won't be a recession if Congress can't resolve the so-called fiscal cliff before the automatic tax increases and spending cuts take effect in January.
Updated: 8:11 AM A person familiar with the deal says oil giant BP has agreed to pay a criminal penalty in the billions of dollars for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted: 7:22 AM A Manhattan nanny has been indicted on murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two children three weeks ago.
Posted: 12:45 PM Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has expanded his federal lawsuit over the release of some voters' names by county officials to candidates in a close legislative race.
Posted: 7:08 AM The UPS Foundation says it will no longer give grants to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group excludes gays and lesbians from being scouts or scout leaders.
Posted: 6:56 AM President Barack Obama is opening a new campaign to build pressure on Congress to cut the federal debt the way he sees fit, meeting with labor leaders who want lawmakers to raise taxes on the wealthy and prevent cuts to health benefits for seniors.
Posted: 6:48 AM Gasoline rationing imposed in New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy has ended.
Updated: 7:48 AM A former spokesman for David Petraeus says the retired general's affair with a female biographer started after Petraeus left the Army.
Posted: 7:23 AM The chaos wrought by Superstorm Sandy delivered a gut-wrenching dose of deja vu for survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Posted: 9:32 PM A Southwest Airlines jet slid off a taxiway at Denver International Airport on Saturday amid light snowfall and freezing temperatures.
Posted: 2:35 PM David Petraeus has resigned as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair.
Posted: 8:22 AM First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people.
