Posted: 7:07 AM A powerful spring storm that brought tornadoes, hail and high winds to the Deep South after socking the Midwest is making its way toward the Carolinas early Friday, with three deaths blamed on the rough weather and thousands of people without power.
Posted: 7:05 AM Police in Georgia say that when a gunman took four firefighters hostage in his home, they tried to buy time and create a rapport by meeting his initial demands.
Posted: 9:19 PM Authorities say a second white supremacist prison gang member whose name surfaced during an investigation into the slaying of Colorado's prisons chief has been arrested.
Posted: 8:53 PM A Northern California sheriff's office has arrested three 16-year-old boys on accusations that they sexually battered a 15-year-old girl who hanged herself eight days after the attack last fall.
Posted: 8:50 PM A federal judicial panel has denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap, and threatened him and other state officials with contempt if they fail to comply.
Posted: 2:24 PM Some never-before-seen artifacts from the minutes following President John F. Kennedy's assassination are going on display in Washington.
Posted: 2:12 PM An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to making more than 100 telephone bomb threats to courthouses and other public buildings in five states.
Posted: 6:56 AM Toyota, Honda and Nissan are recalling more than 2 million vehicles globally for an identical problem with air bags on the passenger side whose inflator may burst, sending plastic pieces flying.
Posted: 6:48 AM The Senate is ready to begin debating new restrictions on guns, four months after the carnage at a Connecticut elementary school spurred lawmakers to address firearms violence.
Posted: 6:45 AM Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will face lawmakers determined to cut spending but resistant to changes in the military that President Barack Obama argues would save money.
Posted: 6:54 PM President Barack Obama is hosting Republican senators at the White House, with the budget, guns and immigration up for dinner table debate.
Posted: 3:06 PM U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) released a statement today regarding her intention to oppose the gun control proposals currently under discussion in the United States Senate.
Updated: 11:23 AM Alberta's premier says if the Obama administration rejects the Keystone XL pipeline it be would be a significant thorn in their relations.
Posted: 11:12 AM The USPS says it will delay plans to end Saturday mail delivery because Congress isn't allowing the change.
Posted: 7:10 AM The time-honored skill of typing is still helpful, but it's becoming less necessary. And that raises the question: Does typing have a future?
Posted: 7:04 AM The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels says the rest of its season is canceled because of federal budget cuts.
Posted: 7:00 AM Some Chinese travel agencies have cancelled tours to North Korea due to safety concerns as Pyongyang continues its war-like posturing.
Posted: 7:01 AM More questions are percolating about how Rutgers handled the discovery of a former basketball coach who kicked players and used gay slurs as he yelled at them.
Updated: 6:56 AM Serbia's health officials say 13 people have been killed when a man went on a shooting spree in a village near Belgrade.
Posted: 6:52 AM North Korea is urging all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate because it says the rival Koreas are on the eve of a nuclear war.
Updated: 5:02 PM Hundreds of thousands of pounds of frozen food recalled amid an E. coli scare may have been served in schools.
Updated: 8:28 AM Senators writing a comprehensive immigration bill hope to finish their work this week.
Updated: 8:20 AM Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose conservative ideas made an enduring impact on Britain, has died. She was 87.
Posted: 4:52 AM The calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program -- the military's health care system.
