Updated: 11:10 AM A Deloitte survey has found about nine out of ten consumers plan to spend the same or more on back-to-school shopping this year.

Posted: 2:40 PM A federal judge is allowing Arizona's new ban on abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy to take effect.

Posted: 2:25 PM A Democratic official says support for gay marriage is set to be included in the official party platform adopted at this summer's convention.

Posted: 2:18 PM Colorado prosecutors charged the suspect in the Aurora movie theater shooting with multiple counts for each victim to create more options during sentencing, if he's convicted.

Posted: 10:21 PM A 12-year-old girl whose parents were slain is back in Arkansas after her adopted brother took her to Memphis.

Updated: 11:43 PM Police have arrested and charged a 19-year-old Kent State University student who posted a message on Twitter saying he planned to "shoot up" the campus.

Posted: 9:50 PM After 97 years, Our Lady of Lourdes School was closing -- enrollment had dwindled to just 35 children at the East Los Angeles school.

Posted: 9:45 PM New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is getting some backing for his campaign to help promote breastfeeding.

Posted: 9:38 PM President Bill Clinton will play a prominent role at the Democratic National convention this summer, several Obama campaign and party officials say.

Posted: 9:34 PM Vice President Joe Biden says Mitt Romney doesn't treat public education as a priority and distrusts the hardworking teachers who struggle to create opportunity for the nation's young people.

Updated: 6:04 PM State and county fairs in the sweltering and drought-stricken Midwest may see smaller livestock and produce this year.

Posted: 3:52 PM Mourners were packing churches in Ohio and Texas to remember two victims of the shooting spree at a Colorado movie theater.

Posted: 3:34 PM Hyundai Motor Co. is recalling some Santa Fe SUVs and Sonata sedans because of problems with their air bags.

Posted: 5:16 PM A New York school bus monitor who was shown in a video being relentlessly bullied by a group of boys says she's retiring.

Posted: 4:41 PM The family of an ex-U.S. Marine sentenced to death for spying in Iran says members have received little information about his case months after a new trial was reportedly ordered.

Posted: 3:39 PM Court papers say the former graduate student accused in the Colorado movie theater shooting was being treated by a psychiatrist at the university where he studied.

Posted: 6:10 AM All of a sudden, biting into a fried chicken sandwich has become a political statement.

Posted: 6:07 AM A Pentagon official says civilian employees in the Defense Department could receive notices of potential layoffs four days before the election if automatic military cuts aren't averted.

Posted: 3:39 PM The Senate has rejected a Republican measure renewing tax cuts for everyone next year, including the nation's highest earners.

Posted: 3:34 PM Vice President Joe Biden says the Republican Party doesn't understand firefighters and that government should be helping cities and states maintain fire services -- not threatening to cut their funding.

Posted: 3:03 PM The wife of Trayvon Martin's shooter is to be arraigned next week in Florida on one count of perjury after a judge said she lied about her and husband George Zimmerman's finances at a bond hearing.

Posted: 2:03 PM Three Senate Republicans will embark on a tour of presidential battleground states next week to warn about looming cuts in defense spending.

Posted: 1:55 PM U.N. General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the world must unite in its response to Syria's civil war and do all it can to stop what he called the slaughter taking place there.

Posted: 1:02 PM A court-appointed attorney for Michael Jackson's children says a petition has been filed to appoint a temporary guardian.

Posted: 12:58 PM Police say Cal Ripken Jr.'s mother is safe after an armed man abducted her from her home northeast of Baltimore.