Posted: 5:21 AM Mohammed al-Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when NATO accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept.

Posted: 5:18 AM Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.

Posted: 5:16 AM One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement.

Posted: 5:12 AM From his prison cell, a senior Pakistani officer accused of plotting with a shadowy Islamist organization to take over the military released his political manifesto.

Posted: 5:11 AM President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning "super" political committee wants to bring them to the GOP's side.

Posted: 2:23 PM Former NASA investigator Joe Gutheinz has been on a quest to recover moon rocks.

Posted: 12:52 PM A Florida postal worker says he became seriously ill after he handled a mysterious leaking package from Yemen. But the Postal Service denies the package ever existed.

Posted: 11:55 AM Chicago authorities say a speeding car hit a support beam of an elevated train, crashing with enough force to split in two and killing four passengers.

Posted: 11:52 AM Some Alabama farmers say they are planting less produce rather than risk having crops rot in the fields a second straight year because of labor shortages linked to the state's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Posted: 11:48 AM The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs.

Updated: 11:28 AM States across the country are stiffening penalties for domestic violence assaults that involve attempts to strangle someone.

Posted: 11:19 AM First Lady Michelle Obama says the example of the four North Carolina A&T State University students who started the sit-in movement for desegregation more than 50 years ago shows what young people can do to change the world.

Updated: 4:28 PM Now that two kidnapped girls have been reunited with their family, it will be up to them to answer the many lingering questions in the case.

Posted: 2:14 PM An Oklahoma newspaper is reporting three recent graduates of Oral Roberts University and a former business instructor were killed when a small airplane crashed in Kansas.

Posted: 1:15 PM State consumer use tax collections were up 108 percent this April over last, an increase that appears to be related to a law that Amazon.com notify Tennessee customers that they owe sales taxes.

Posted: 1:03 PM Mitt Romney is steering clear of the fight over gay marriage and talking about his commitments to his own family in a commencement address at a conservative Christian university.

Posted: 12:34 PM The body of a U.S. Army nurse who died suddenly in Afghanistan during a computer video chat with his wife has arrived in western New York.

Posted: 11:54 AM Boston University is planning to hold a candlelight vigil for three students studying in New Zealand who were killed when their minivan crashed during a weekend trip.

Posted: 11:06 AM A man murdered during a business meeting in New York City was a top official in a Florida dietary supplement company that has been the target of thousands of consumer complaints.

Posted: 10:50 AM Emory University in Atlanta has become the latest college to bring dogs on campus during exams to help stressed-out students.

Posted: 10:46 AM More than three years after the financial industry almost collapsed, the colossal, $2 billion misfire at JPMorgan Chase is being cited by critics as proof that big banks still do not understand the threats posed by their own speculation.

Posted: 10:40 AM Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is more like a political migraine now. And the ache is being felt less than four months before Democrats open their national convention in Charlotte.

Posted: 10:35 AM Republican activists say they'll use President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage to boost Mitt Romney's image in the eyes of conservatives and paint the president as a flip-flopper on the issue.

Posted: 10:28 AM China's assertive behavior is breathing life into America's historically tumultuous relationship with the Philippines.

Posted: 3:34 PM Shocking or no big deal? A woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son is the cover photo of this week's Time magazine for a story on "attachment parenting," and reactions ranged from applause to cringing to shrugs.