Posted: 5:29 PM President Barack Obama and leaders around the globe locked down an exit path from the war in Afghanistan, affirming Monday that they will close the largely stalemated conflict at the end of 2014
Posted: 5:27 PM Prosecutors showed jurors a photo of the then 11-year-old Alexander Lowrey on the deck of the pool, next to a smiling Clemens who is standing in the shallow end of the water.
Posted: 5:25 PM Private rocket maker SpaceX aimed for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that caused a launch abort over the weekend, stalling the world's first commercial space station supply flight.
Posted: 5:22 PM Niagara Parks Police say witnesses reported seeing the man climb over a railing at 10:20 a.m. Monday and "deliberately jump" into the Niagara River 20 to 30 feet above the Horseshoe Falls.
Posted: 5:20 PM The jury deciding the fate of John Edwards in North Carolina has finished a second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
Posted: 1:15 PM A judge sentenced former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi today to 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man.
Updated: 5:24 AM Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a rally Sunday at the New York Mets' stadium on the dangers of the Internet and how to use modern technology in a religiously responsible way.
Posted: 5:19 AM A prison guard was killed Sunday during a riot that also injured five other correctional officers and hurt three inmates at a privately run facility in Mississippi that holds illegal immigrants, authorities said.
Posted: 5:06 AM Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down laws restricting spending.
Posted: 5:02 AM Police officers suddenly rushed the young man wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a baseball cap as he walked out of a motel toward an idling cab near a Texas Army post.
Posted: 4:44 AM Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says.
Posted: 1:24 PM The parents of the two young men at the center of New Jersey's highest-profile hate crime case have been appearing in public in the days before the sentencing.
Posted: 10:16 AM The hurricane season doesn't officially begin until June 1, but the first tropical storm of the season already has developed off the South Carolina coast.
Updated: 1:38 PM President Barack Obama says the NATO alliance agrees on a vision for post-2014 Afghanistan and is pressing world leaders to implement that strategy following a decade of war.
Posted: 9:30 AM Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit are gearing up for their largest demonstration.
Posted: 1:03 PM The United States and other members of the Group of Eight industrial nations are expressing hope that Greece remains in the eurozone, saying all of the nations have an interest in the success of efforts to strengthen the eurozone and help Europe's economy grow.
Updated: 9:03 AM Police say an Ohio woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her friend, who tried to drive away afterward and fatally struck the accused woman's 2-year-old daughter.
Updated: 12:09 PM Police say three protesters at the NATO summit in Chicago have been charged with terrorism conspiracy stemming from allegations that they planned to make Molotov cocktails.
Posted: 11:40 AM Officials in Iowa say four people are missing and eight others hurt after a boat collision on the Mississippi River.
Posted: 11:37 AM A trial opens Tuesday for a Washington state man accused of killing a beauty school classmate, in a case that shook a farm city that bills itself as the "Apple Capital of the World."
Posted: 11:34 AM President Barack Obama says he and leaders of seven other major industrial nations are focusing on economic concerns during discussions at Camp David.
Posted: 11:31 AM Mourners have gathered at a modest stone church north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy.
Posted: 11:29 AM Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama's re-election chances?
