Posted: 3:52 PM Supreme Court justices strongly suggested that they are ready to allow Arizona to enforce part of a controversial state law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of people they think are in the country illegally.
Posted: 1:20 PM The decision by the world's second-biggest fast-food restaurant raises the bar for other companies seeking to appeal to the rising consumer demand for more humanely produced fare.
Posted: 1:16 PM A military judge refused on Wednesday to dismiss the charges against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history.
Posted: 12:56 PM There was no risk to President Barack Obama as a result of a prostitution scandal at a Colombia hotel that involved a dozen Secret Service officers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate panel
Posted: 12:49 PM Newt Gingrich on Wednesday unofficially conceded the Republican presidential race to Mitt Romney, calling on conservatives to unite behind the presumptive nominee.
Posted: 5:39 AM The agency that enforces the federal job discrimination laws has for the first time ruled that transgender people are protected from bias in the workplace.
Updated: 10:11 AM A Senate bill aimed at saving the U.S. Postal Service would make it harder to close thousands of low-revenue post offices and end Saturday mail delivery.
Updated: 10:11 AM Mitt Romney can't disavow the conservative views he embraced as candidate during the Republican presidential primaries, President Barack Obama says in a new interview.
Posted: 5:20 AM The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation's food supply.
Posted: 5:17 AM The NFL draft begins Thursday night with the first round, continues Friday night with the second and third rounds, and runs through Saturday, when the final four rounds will be held at Radio City Music Hall. The Indianapolis Colts and St. Louis Rams both went 2-14 last season and had the top two picks, but the Rams traded the second spot to Washington.
Posted: 5:07 AM By arresting a former BP engineer Tuesday, federal prosecutors for the first time showed their hand in the Gulf oil spill case, saying they were probing whether BP PLC and its employees broke the law by intentionally lowballing how much oil was spewing from its out-of-control well.
Updated: 5:44 PM Three Secret Service agents forced out, two others have been cleared of misconduct after a prostitution scandal in Colombia.
Posted: 5:33 PM A new case of mad cow disease has surfaced in a dairy cow in California, but the animal was not bound for the nation's food supply and posed no danger, the Agriculture Department said Tuesday.
Posted: 5:32 PM Apple (AAPL) on Tuesday reported surging second-quarter profits of $11.6 billion, up 94 percent from the year-ago period.
Posted: 5:31 PM In the ten months since Mitt Romney launched his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on a farm in New Hampshire, his campaign has experienced highs and lows.
Posted: 5:29 PM A Long Island woman claims she was fired after donating a kidney for her boss.
Posted: 5:25 PM In a rare procedure, a 26-year-old woman who had been declared brain dead gave birth to twins at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Posted: 5:16 PM An armored car guard who allegedly killed his partner in Pittsburgh and made off with more than $2 million was arrested in Florida on Tuesday after nearly two months on the run when someone called Pittsburgh police to report his whereabouts, authorities said.
Posted: 5:14 PM An Army private accused of engineering the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history is asking a military judge to dismiss the charges.
Posted: 5:12 PM Democrats in the Senate engaged in a pointed debate on Tuesday with the author of Arizona's controversial immigration law, with both sides accusing the other of distorting the facts and failing to serve their constituents.
Posted: 5:10 PM Two New Jersey state troopers have been suspended without pay, following reports they served as escorts last month for a group of high-performance luxury cars on a 100-mph trip down the Garden State Parkway, alarming other motorists.
Posted: 1:40 PM The Justice Department said on Tuesday it filed the first criminal charges in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, accusing a former BP engineer of destroying evidence.
Posted: 10:30 AM Home prices dropped in February in most major U.S. cities for a sixth straight month.
Posted: 7:46 AM The family of an Arizona girl who went missing from her bedroom over the weekend said they will never give up looking for the 6-year-old.
