Posted: 11:34 AM The nation's unemployment rate of 8.2 percent is threatening President Barack Obama's re-election bid. But one detail brightens his hopes.

Posted: 11:31 AM Overturning President Barack Obama's health care law might not be as simple as it sounds.

Updated: 2:16 PM Auburn's police chief says 3 shot dead at apartment near Auburn University, including 2 ex-football players.

Posted: 11:25 AM Crews are battling a wildfire in northern Colorado that has scorched 5,000 acres and prompted several dozen evacuation orders.

Posted: 1:43 PM A man charged with killing 9-year-old twins and their 73-year-old baby sitter has been arrested in Alabama.

Posted: 12:41 PM When the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State erupted last year, public anger was not only directed toward Jerry Sandusky, whose trial begins Monday.

Posted: 12:35 PM The instructions at a pedestrian bridge in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., today included telling thousands of people to put their left foot in, their left foot out and shake it all about.

Posted: 12:30 PM About 200,000 Girl Scouts are gathering on the National Mall in Washington to celebrate the organization's 100th anniversary.

Posted: 11:53 AM Police in Georgia are trying to figure out who stole about 400,000 toothpicks worth nearly $3,000 from a manufacturer in Athens.

Posted: 11:48 AM An Orthodox Jew who was weeks away from becoming a New York City police officer says he has been kicked out of the police academy for refusing to trim his beard.

Posted: 11:37 AM A sheriff's race in South Carolina has been marred by allegations of kidnapping, lying and stealing.

Posted: 11:31 AM I'll Have Another will not lead the post parade of horses before the Belmont Stakes, but there will be a retirement ceremony for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner in the Belmont Park winner's circle.

Posted: 11:25 AM Scientists are worried that the tsunami debris starting to wash up on West Coast and Alaska shores represents a new way for invasive species to break the earth's natural barriers and damage marine environments.

Posted: 10:23 AM Authorities say the man accused of driving an SUV into an office building in the nation's capital has been charged with arson and other counts.

Posted: 10:20 AM Independent Republican groups are heavily outspending their cross-party counterparts on television advertising in the campaigns for the White House and control of the Senate.

Posted: 10:16 AM President Barack Obama wants Congress to help states rehire teachers and act on a key part of last year's jobs bill. He says the last thing the U.S. needs is to have fewer teachers in our schools.

Posted: 10:13 AM Two U.S. attorneys are taking over separate FBI investigations into leaks of national security information that critics have accused the White House of orchestrating to improve President Barack Obama's re-election chances.

Updated: 9:47 AM After nearly 47 years, friends and relatives in the Willamette Valley town of Lebanon, Ore., have been able to bury a Vietnam War airman killed in action on Christmas Eve 1965.

Posted: 3:13 PM No form of contaminated food or other cause has been identified in the illnesses, which occurred in April and May, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Posted: 3:10 PM Items ranging in size from a 164-foot shrimping vessel to a soccer ball have already made their way into North American waters following the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.

Posted: 3:08 PM A Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver was sentenced Friday to 7 ½ years in prison followed by lifetime supervision for attempting to send money to a terrorist with alleged links to al-Qaida.

Posted: 3:00 PM A fire that caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to a dry-docked submarine started when an industrial vacuum cleaner sucked up a heat source of some type that ignited debris inside the vacuum

Posted: 2:58 PM Debbie Clemens testified Friday that her husband was not present when she received a shot of human growth hormone from Roger Clemens' strength coach

Posted: 2:56 PM The economy at risk, President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of pursuing policies that would weaken the U.S. recovery.

Posted: 11:48 AM President Obama urged Congress to take steps to boost the economy and called on Republican lawmakers to explain why they are not taking action if they don't.