Posted: 1:33 PM Their crimes are so loathsome that some hardened courtroom veterans recoil at viewing the evidence. Yet child-pornography offenders are now the focus of an intense debate within the legal community as to whether the federal sentences they face have become, in many cases, too severe.
Posted: 1:10 PM Last year's hurricanes and flooding not only engulfed homes and carried away roads and bridges in hard-hit areas of the country, they also dispersed aggressive invasive plant and animal species.
Posted: 11:28 AM Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the U.S. should do everything it can to protect a Chinese activist who escaped house arrest and was reported to be hiding in the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
Posted: 11:25 AM The president's counterterrorism adviser now says civilian deaths are inevitable in the U.S. hunt for terrorists.
Posted: 11:03 AM One World Trade Center is expected to claim the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet tall.
Posted: 10:59 AM An ambitious aide and his agreeable wife are among the star witnesses at former U.S. Sen. John Edwards' trial.
Posted: 10:53 AM A developer in south Georgia is looking for someone to buy a small town.
Posted: 10:48 AM It was once a tense rivalry, but now the relationship between President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a genuine political and policy partnership.
Posted: 10:45 AM The Secret Service doesn't often get a black eye behind those oh-so-cool sunglasses. But it's got a shiner now.
Posted: 10:26 AM A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted. Officials say it's too busy surviving to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil.
Posted: 10:10 AM Not much was off-limits for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at the celebrity studded White House Correspondents Dinner.
Updated: 10:23 AM Three crew members of a sailboat have been found dead and a fourth person is missing after their boat apparently collided with a much larger vessel during a race off the coasts of California and Mexico.
Posted: 10:02 AM Hundreds of protesters have marched in New York City against what they say are setbacks to equal rights and reproductive rights for women.
Posted: 11:54 PM Authorities in St. Louis say high winds swept through a beer tent where 200 people gathered after a Cardinals game Saturday, killing one and critically injuring at least five others. But the owner of the bar says it was lightning -- not wind -- that killed the patron.
Posted: 1:58 PM Nine-year-old Dulce Cabrera took a stray bullet to the foot Thursday night after getting caught in the crossfire of a gunfight near her New York City home.
Posted: 1:35 PM School officials say a southern New Jersey teacher accused of verbally abusing an autistic student has been placed on paid leave.
Updated: 1:03 PM American attempts to rebuild its relationship with Pakistan appear to be deadlocked on the issue of a U.S. apology for killing 24 Pakistani border troops last November.
Posted: 12:45 PM A polar bear dance party in Miami is aimed at raising awareness about the need to protect the Arctic Ocean.
Posted: 11:59 AM The prostitution scandal embroiling the Secret Service has highlighted the dearth of women in the agency.
Posted: 11:56 AM A moderate earthquake has rattled Southern California.
Posted: 11:08 AM The U.S. government is offering to shelve some deportation cases, but some immigrants are rejecting the deal, preferring to take a shot at winning asylum or a green card in immigration court.
Posted: 10:57 AM Princess Di was known for her keen fashion sense. Visitors to the Southern Women's Show in Raleigh, North Carolina, this weekend will get a close-up look at some of her most iconic gowns.
Posted: 10:54 AM President Barack Obama's "pivot" to China's neighborhood and the "reset" in relations with Russia are producing limited results for foreign policy initiatives that are designed to improve America's standing with its former Cold War rivals.
Posted: 10:49 AM President Barack Obama continues to take aim at unscrupulous college recruiters who target veterans and members of the military.
Updated: 1:45 PM Authorities in Washington state say they've found a body in an elaborate bunker they had surrounded in the Cascade Mountains, and it appears to be that of a man wanted for killing his wife and teenage daughter last weekend.
