Posted: 7:00 AM The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $475 million after no tickets matched the winning numbers in the latest drawing.

Posted: 6:57 AM Officials awaited daybreak to fully assess the scope of the destruction left in the wake of a deadly tornado in Granbury.

Posted: 2:56 AM The House Agriculture Committee is set to consider small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program in an effort to appease conservatives who say the food aid has become too expensive. The cuts are part of a massive five-year farm bill that costs almost $100 billion annually and would set policy for farm subsidies, rural programs and the food aid.

Updated: 5:28 AM A small Maryland city just outside the Washington, D.C., city limits has voted to lower the voting age for city elections to 16. The Takoma Park City Council voted 6-1 on Monday to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in city elections starting in November.

Updated: 5:27 AM A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive has agreed to give up his right to an appeal and will be spared a potential death sentence. Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of the babies who were delivered alive and killed with scissors.

Updated: 5:31 AM New York City prosecutors say a woman has been charged with fraud for posing as the aunt of a Connecticut school shooting victim and soliciting donations. Nouel Alba was indicted Tuesday on identity theft and fraud charges in the Bronx. Prosecutors say she pretended to be the aunt of 6-year-old victim Noah Pozner.

Updated: 5:17 AM The Powerball jackpot is climbing again, and fast. In just a few short weeks, the jackpot has ballooned to an estimated $360 million, making it the third largest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest jackpot ever

Updated: 7:25 AM Minnesota is set to become the 12th U.S. state where gay couples can get married.Minnesota is set to become the 12th U.S. state where gay couples can get married. A final legislative vote Monday will let the weddings start on Aug. 1. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has pledged to sign the bill, and scheduled a ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the front steps of the Capitol in St. Paul to do so.

Updated: 7:25 AM Angelina Jolie says she's had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that makes it extremely likely she'll get breast cancer. Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday's New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts.

Updated: 7:25 AM Dr. Kermit Gosnell considers himself a pioneering doctor who helped desperate women get abortions, but a Philadelphia jury calls him a murderer who killed three babies born alive. The 72-year-old Gosnell also was found guilty Monday of manslaughter in an abortion patient's overdose death, but acquitted of murdering a fourth aborted baby.

Updated: 4:25 AM Transportation safety officials are exploring ways to eliminate drunken driving deaths, which account for about a third of the nation's more than 30,000 annual traffic fatalities -- a share that has remained stubbornly unchanged since the late-1990s. The National Transportation Safety Board meets Tuesday to hear recommendations o

Updated: 4:27 AM The country's four biggest cellphone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T's "It Can Wait" slogan to blanket TV and radio this summer. The multi-million dollar ad campaign is unusual not just because it unites rivals, but because it represents companies warning against the dangers of their own products.

Updated: 4:28 AM President Barack Obama's political support group is joining with a Republican pro-immigration organization and an effort run by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to help boost support for a comprehensive immigration bill. Organizing for Action, a grassroots group run by Obama loyalists that grew out of his 2012 re-election campaign, will co-sponsor a so-called "virtual march on Washington" planned for next week aimed at getting people to use social media platforms to register their support for the immigration legislation.

Posted: 11:52 AM Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect say he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, but a judge won't rule on whether to allow that yet.

Posted: 11:38 AM O.J. Simpson is back in a Las Vegas courtroom to ask for a new trial in the case that sent him to prison in 2008.

Updated: 7:22 AM Large sheets of ice was ashore at a northern Minnesota Lake and threaten cabins and resorts during the fishing opener.

Updated: 7:23 AM James Holmes is due in court on Monday. His attorney says that he will ask a judge to allow him to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.

Updated: 3:49 AM New Orleans police say 19 people have been wounded in a shooting during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday. Police spokeswoman Remi Braden said in an email that many of the victims were grazed and most of the wounds weren't life-threatening. No deaths were reported.

Posted: 10:46 PM Tough calls don't often confront the people responsible for deciding who belongs on a national memorial for officers killed in the line of duty. But recognizing fallen men and women in blue isn't always a black-and-white decision.

Posted: 10:26 PM Scientists are on a mission to track the carbon footprints of large cities that are increasingly responsible for human-caused global warming. Instruments perched in the mountains above Los Angeles monitor carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases spewing from factories and freeways. Similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and automobile tailpipes. There's also talk of outfitting Sao Paulo, Brazil, with sensors that sniff the byproducts of burning fossil fuels.

Posted: 9:28 PM Many Americans admit they've done it, but safety experts say drowsy driving is a problem motorists are just starting to wake up to. A fatigue expert on the National Transportation Safety Board says drowsy driving can be as bad as drunken driving.

Posted: 8:45 PM Reporters and photographers were evacuated from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from a faulty piece of equipment.

Posted: 9:34 AM Nursing women at a major Army headquarters in South Carolina don't have to hide in a rest room if they want to breast-feed their babies or express milk for their young.

Updated: 2:12 AM New Jersey State Police say a standoff with an armed man at a Trenton home has been resolved and three children are safe. State police Sgt. Adam Grossman also said early Sunday that the area is secure.

Posted: 9:29 AM Reporters and photographers were evacuated from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from a faulty piece of equipment.