Posted: 2:17 PM The first female boss at the Army's prestigious drill sergeant school is getting her job back.

Posted: 8:22 AM An Ohio zoo plans to transfer five exotic animals back to the widow of a suicidal animal owner who released dozens of wild creatures last fall.

Posted: 12:00 AM The borough council in a Philadelphia suburb has voted to lift a state of emergency declared after three officers were suspended in fallout over the alleged use of a stun gun on a handcuffed teenage suspect

Posted: 9:12 PM President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and members of Obama's cabinet are mounting a renewed campaign to extend low interest student loans for another year, pushing a topic that has reignited partisan fights over women's issues and health care.

Posted: 3:30 PM Americans turned over 552,161 pounds, or 276 tons, of unwanted medicines to be disposed of by the Drug Enforcement Administration last week.

Posted: 3:19 PM The General Services Administration had an unusual policy in place last year: It offered to give architects and other private contractors a tax deduction for making federal buildings more energy efficient if those contractors returned 19 percent of the money to GSA.

Posted: 2:57 PM The White House says it may be time for the world to "admit defeat" in its current approach to violence in Syria.

Updated: 2:44 PM A published report says Facebook is seeking a valuation of $85 billion to $95 billion when it goes public in a few weeks.

Posted: 12:43 PM More than 100 defendants are being charged in seven cities with Medicare fraud in a nationwide crackdown.

Updated: 3:57 PM A New Jersey mom is in court to face a charge of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a stand-up tanning booth, where authorities say the girl suffered burns.

Posted: 7:24 AM U.S. Secret Service agents will be getting ethics training from professors at Johns Hopkins University following a prostitution scandal in Colombia.

Posted: 7:15 AM A former Obama administration official says al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden wanted to see President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus assassinated.

Updated: 12:49 PM Police say a former Miss New Hampshire USA faces a simple assault charge stemming from a confrontation with her boyfriend.

Posted: 10:22 AM One World Trade Center is expected to claim the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet tall.

Posted: 8:57 AM A sailing association says a yacht apparently collided with a much larger vessel during a race off the coasts of California and Mexico, killing three crew members and left one missing.

Posted: 9:21 PM Authorities in St. Louis say high winds swept through a beer tent where 200 people gathered after a Cardinals game Saturday, killing one and critically injuring at least five others.

Posted: 9:37 AM An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry without their families has sent government and nonprofit agencies scrambling to expand their shelter, legal representation and reunification services.

Posted: 9:32 AM Police say a 22-month-old boy has died after being run over by an SUV in the parking lot of a Florida high school during a softball game.

Posted: 9:07 AM The Secret Service is operating under a new code of conduct.

Posted: 8:21 AM Washington state authorities are maintaining a tight watch on an elaborate, underground bunker that might be hiding an armed survivalist suspected of killing his wife and daughter.

Posted: 5:56 PM A Republican senator has lifted his hold on the appointment of a former Obama aide to a top Pentagon position after the administration said it would consider sales of new fighter jets to Taiwan.

Posted: 5:38 PM President Barack Obama is telling female supporters that the election-year fight over contraception access has been, in his words, "like being in a time machine."

Posted: 5:35 PM Seeking to recover from a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service is barring agents from taking foreign nationals back to their hotel rooms, visiting "non-reputable" establishments and drinking alcohol within 10 hours of going on duty.

Posted: 5:31 PM The killing of Osama bin Laden has become a campaign weapon for President Barack Obama.

Posted: 12:31 PM A former aide to presidential candidate John Edwards says he felt in danger during a back road meeting where he asked Edwards to tell the truth about his mistress.