Updated: 2:59 PM About 650 jobs will be lost when the plants close on May 25 in Amarillo, Texas; Garden City, Kansas; and Waterloo, Iowa. A plant in South Sioux City, Neb., will remain open but run at reduced capacity.
Posted: 12:46 PM Republicans have blocked the Senate from debating a Democratic bill keeping interest rates on college loans from doubling this summer for 7.4 million students.
Posted: 9:28 AM Officials told The Associated Press a day earlier that discovery of the unexploded bomb represented an intelligence prize resulting from a covert CIA operation in Yemen,
Posted: 9:20 AM Schools should be a cornerstone of the nation's obesity battle, but to trim Americans' waistlines, changes are needed everywhere people live, work, play and learn, a major new report says.
Posted: 9:18 AM Pressuring Congress, President Barack Obama is laying out an election year "to do" list Tuesday that urges lawmakers to take another look at economic proposals to promote job creation and help families refinance their mortgages.
Posted: 9:16 AM North Carolina could be on the verge of becoming the next state to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
Posted: 9:14 AM The new approach uses buzzwords like "risk-based" and "intelligence-driven" to describe a more nuanced, targeted response to constantly evolving threats.
Posted: 9:12 AM Barrett was one of four Democrats on Tuesday's primary ballot looking to challenge Walker in the June 5 general election that has become a nationally watched battle over union rights.
Posted: 9:05 AM A 49-year-old man who was the last Michigan victim in a stabbing spree two years ago was willing to help anybody but probably didn't know that a suspected serial killer was on the loose, a sister said.
Posted: 8:47 AM Don't tell Ron Paul the Republican primary is over. He's too busy mucking up Mitt Romney's efforts to accumulate enough convention delegates to officially claim the GOP nomination for president.
Posted: 5:02 AM The White House pressed Republicans Monday to back Democratic legislation preventing interest rates on federal student loans from doubling in July.
Posted: 4:58 AM A teenage driver's risk of dying in an accident increases dramatically when there are other teens in the car, and plummets when there's an adult looking on, according to a study by AAA's safety foundation.
Posted: 4:57 AM Targeting middle-class voters, President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a sweeping $25 million, nine-state ad campaign
Posted: 4:58 PM Romney had a chance to make that clear during the rally, but passed on the opportunity when he ignored a questioner who called for Obama to be tried for treason.
Posted: 4:56 PM The bourbon had been stashed away and the hats returned to closets by the time someone found a groomer's body inside a barn at Churchill Downs, hours after the running of America's most famous horse race.
Posted: 4:54 PM Wary of tax increases, weary of layoffs and determined to avoid bankruptcy, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras had only to gaze up at his city's Ivy League campus to see a way out of the morass.
Posted: 4:35 PM The would-be suicide bomber was told to buy a ticket on the airliner of his choosing and decide the timing of the attack. It's not immediately clear what happened to the would-be bomber.
Updated: 12:30 PM More bad news about Americans' waistlines: They're only going to get bigger. Already, about a third of people are obese. By 2030, it is estimated 42 percent of the population will be.
Posted: 12:28 PM The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's early estimate of 2011 traffic fatalities released Monday says there were 32,310 deaths in motor-vehicle crashes, a drop of 1.7 percent from the previous year.
Posted: 10:07 AM In a shift from many of the campaign's earlier ads, this latest commercial focuses entirely on promoting Obama's record and makes no direct attacks on his presumptive Republican presidential rival, Mitt Romney.
Updated: 10:08 AM The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a wave of budget cuts come January.
Posted: 10:04 AM Authorities planned to conduct an autopsy Monday for a man who was found dead in a barn at Churchill Downs hours after the Kentucky Derby.
Posted: 10:02 AM In a video released Sunday by al-Qaida, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands.
