Posted: 5:48 AM One of the most iconic images in art history has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.

Posted: 5:21 AM Tossing out President Barack Obama's health care law would have major unintended consequences for Medicare's payment systems, the administration has quietly informed the courts.

Posted: 5:18 AM Junior Seau's apparent suicide stunned an entire city and saddened former teammates who recalled the former NFL star's ferocious tackles and habit of calling everybody around him "Buddy."

Updated: 9:51 PM The Rev. Billy Graham is urging North Carolina voters to support an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage.

Updated: 5:46 PM Gilbert police Lt. John Lyle told The Arizona Republic that authorities aren't looking for a suspect in Wednesday afternoon's shooting at a home.

Posted: 3:50 PM Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "today I am suspending the campaign, but suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship."

Posted: 3:27 PM The prosecutor announced the charges at a news conference Wednesday. State Attorney Lawson Lamar says 11 of the 13 people charged will face the felony charge.

Posted: 11:01 AM Avery Canahuati, a baby who inspired countless readers as she raised awareness while struggling with a rare disease, has died.

Posted: 10:56 AM A New Jersey mom charged after taking her 5-year-old daughter into a stand-up tanning booth, where authorities say the girl suffered burns.

Posted: 10:48 AM More teens are smoking dope, with nearly 1 in 10 lighting up at least 20 or more times a month, according to a new survey of young people.

Posted: 10:43 AM The fastest growth in U.S. manufacturing in 10 months gave stocks a lift Tuesday and pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest close in more than four years.

Posted: 10:38 AM Mitt Romney's spokesman on foreign policy issues abruptly quit Tuesday after anti-gay conservatives made an issue of his outspoken support for gay marriage.

Posted: 10:19 AM Later today, Newt Gingrich is set to - finally - suspend his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Posted: 7:07 AM A blind Chinese legal activist at the center of a diplomatic tussle between Washington and Beijing left the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday after six days inside.

Posted: 6:47 AM Authorities in the U.S. have accused a divorced Palestinian man of illegally moving his three children from their home in Kansas to his native Gaza earlier this year.

Posted: 5:54 AM And the winner is ... a man who drills his own holes in a frozen river to study the best conditions for hitting the jackpot in Alaska's biggest annual guessing game.

Posted: 5:49 AM When prosecutors announce criminal charges Wednesday in the hazing death of a Florida A&M University band member, they will embark on a legal chess game.

Posted: 5:46 AM Thousands of protesters in New York demanded an end to income inequality and housing foreclosures.

Posted: 5:25 AM After unknowingly working with an FBI informant for months, five men have been charged with plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge linking two wealthy Cleveland suburbs.

Posted: 5:21 AM On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. "We can see the light of a new day," he said on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death and in the midst of his own re-election campaign.

Posted: 8:44 PM Mitt Romney's national security spokesman has resigned after critics questioned his conservatism because he is gay.

Posted: 4:14 PM Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay $4.8 million in back wages and damages to more than 4,500 employees nationwide for unpaid overtime, The Labor Department said Tuesday.

Updated: 5:45 PM Shortly after arriving, about midnight local time, President Obama and President Karza signed an agreement to designate Afghanistan a major non-NATO ally.

Posted: 10:30 AM Firefighters are battling the first major Texas wildfires of the season, covering 20,000 acres in the Davis Mountains, including an area that was struck by uncontrolled burning exactly a year ago.

Posted: 10:17 AM A former Obama administration official says al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden wanted to see President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus assassinated.