Posted: 11:49 AM The president's 2011 federal income tax return shows reported adjusted gross income of about $790,000 last year. About half of the first family's income is the president's salary.
Updated: 7:03 AM The mayor of New Jersey's largest city expects to have more to say Friday about how he helped rescue neighbors from a fire.
Posted: 5:08 AM It's time to party on Third Street. Music pulses from bars late into the night. Young women in shorts and halter tops hustle down the sidewalks. Guys in hot rods gun their engines and tear up the street.
Posted: 5:05 AM A man opened fire on police during a drug bust Thursday night, killing a New Hampshire police chief just days from retirement and injuring four officers from other departments. Early Friday, the shooter remained holed up in the home with a woman, police said.
Posted: 12:23 PM The NYPD confirmed a bomb squad was investigating a suspicious package discovered by security personnel at 2 World Financial Center.
Posted: 11:15 AM The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly unemployment benefit applications jumped 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 380,000. The previous week's figures were also revised higher.
Posted: 10:53 AM Jury selection begins Thursday in the criminal trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards, accused of breaking campaign finance laws to hide an extramarital affair.
Posted: 10:50 AM The Treasury Department rushed out a major revamp of its foreclosure-prevention program in 2010, limiting the plan's ability to help people who are unemployed or owe more than their homes are worth, a government watchdog says.
Posted: 10:48 AM Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen, who said that the wife of the presumed Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, was unqualified to speak about the kinds of economic issues facing women in America because she had never "worked a day in her life.
Posted: 10:43 AM Previously, Amazon customers were able to trade in electronics, books and video games, but not music. Amazon announced Wednesday that their Trade-in Program will now accept CDs.
Posted: 7:00 AM The Bob Marley documentary "Marley" will stream on Facebook simultaneously during its theatrical opening, a signal that social media may also play a role in shifting movie release windows.
Posted: 5:54 AM Mitt Romney has come up with an "amazing statistic" and Republicans inside and outside his presidential campaign are doing their utmost to spread it around: "92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women."
Posted: 5:51 AM After years of investigation, denials and delays, jury selection was set to begin Thursday for the criminal trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards.
Posted: 5:45 AM More U.S. homes are entering the foreclosure process, setting the stage for a surge in properties repossessed by lenders this year.
Posted: 5:38 AM After years of failed attempts to repeal the death penalty, Connecticut lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have passed legislation that abolishes the punishment for all future cases.
Posted: 5:26 AM Health officials say nearly 1 in 4 babies are born to unmarried couples who are living together, a significant jump from a decade ago.
Posted: 5:09 PM The University of Southern California says two international students shot and killed in a car near campus were graduate students from China who were studying electrical engineering.
Posted: 5:07 PM Want to calculate how much you could owe in student loans after graduating from a particular college? A new government website provides tools to help with the math.
Posted: 5:05 PM President Barack Obama will face fresh pressure on Cuba and illegal drugs when he meets this week with Latin American leaders, some of whom have grown skeptical of his promise to forge a new era of partnership.
Posted: 5:03 PM The Justice Department and 15 states sued Apple Inc. and major book publishers Wednesday, alleging a conspiracy to raise the price of electronic books
Posted: 4:59 PM The crisis in Syria along with growing concerns about Iran's nuclear program and a potential North Korean missile test dominated discussions Wednesday between foreign ministers from the G-8
Updated: 6:15 PM Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is being charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose death ignited nationwide protests.
Updated: 2:32 PM Debra Tate hopes that Wednesday is the last time she has to walk into a prison holding Charles Manson and argue in front of a parole board panel that he should not be freed.
Posted: 5:24 AM The two certainties in life — death and taxes — may be more intertwined than Ben Franklin ever imagined: A study found that deadly auto accidents increase on Tax Day.
