Posted: 8:46 PM The Postal Service is criticizing a bill passed by the Senate that would delay closings of thousands of low-revenue post offices and mail processing centers.

Posted: 8:43 PM The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport says security agents forced her to undergo a pat-down, and even yelled at the child and called her an uncooperative suspect.

Posted: 7:04 PM The government is issuing new guidelines that could make it tougher for employers to screen out job applicants using criminal background checks.

Posted: 6:52 PM The sister of a man accused in an alleged plot in 2009 to attack New York's subways with suicide bombs has testified in his terror trial.

Posted: 6:48 PM First Lady Michelle Obama will speak Monday at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Warrior Games, a competition for more than 200 wounded, ill and injured military members and veterans.

Posted: 6:43 PM A Pentagon official is signaling that the Army could lay off as many as 24,000 enlisted personnel and up to 5,000 officers to meet a projected reduction in the force.

Updated: 8:53 PM Authorities say a woman has died after five people were rescued from a wrecked SUV as it dangled off the side of a San Diego freeway.

Posted: 6:00 PM A federal judge says he is "leaning in favor of" granting preliminary approval to a proposed class-action settlement that would resolve billions of dollars in claims against BP over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Updated: 5:53 PM When developmentally disabled children have a hard time communicating, it can leave their parents struggling to know how they're being treated at school.

Posted: 5:38 PM It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days -- even kidneys and other organs donated for transplant.

Posted: 3:54 PM A spokeswoman said the Democrat signed the bill Wednesday afternoon at a private ceremony with lawmakers, clergy and family members of victims.

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: 10:12 AM Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans.

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.