Posted: 6:55 AM North Carolina said Thursday it is abandoning its plan to issue pink-striped driver's licenses to certain illegal immigrants, beset by mounting criticism of the specially designed IDs.
Posted: 6:37 AM The Defense Department will delay furlough notices for its civilian employees for about two weeks while officials analyze the impact of a new spending bill on planned budget cuts, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Posted: 6:22 AM The new spending bill passed by Congress on Thursday appears to continue the requirement for six-day mail delivery, but some lawmakers and postal officials say plans to cut Saturday service should proceed.
Posted: 6:16 AM As they struggle to get ahead, many low-wage workers are not taking advantage of job training or educational programs that could help them make the leap to better-paying jobs.
Updated: 12:00 PM A Marine killed a male and female colleague in a shooting at a base in northern Virginia before killing himself, officials said.
Posted: 8:34 PM The United States is increasing its oil production faster than ever. And American drivers are guzzling less gas.
Updated: 8:49 PM Arkansas Senate passes legislation allowing guns at schools operated by a church
Posted: 1:55 PM Lance Cpl. Mason Vanderwork loved going to the beach and cruising in his Mustang convertible. He and his wife, Taylor, married the day after she graduated high school and hoped to start a family.
Posted: 1:54 PM In half the states, mainly led by Democrats, officials are racing deadlines to connect uninsured residents to coverage now only months away. In others it's as if "Obamacare" had never passed.
Posted: 1:51 PM The National Weather Service said Thursday above-normal temperatures are predicted across most of the Lower 48 states and northern Alaska.
Posted: 1:46 PM It's unknown what role Tom Clements' position as executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections might have played in the shooting Tuesday.
Updated: 1:44 PM Alissa Parker told "CBS This Morning" in an excerpt of an interview that aired Thursday the meeting with Adam Lanza's father, Peter Lanza, was her idea.
Posted: 1:35 PM An insurance agent who helped run a prostitution operation out of his mistress's Zumba studio and watched secretly videotaped sex acts was ordered Thursday to spend 20 days in jail
Posted: 10:58 AM The Senate Energy Committee has voted to move President Barack Obama's nomination of Sally Jewell to be Interior secretary to the Senate floor.
Posted: 10:55 AM House Republicans have passed a budget plan that would bring the federal government's finances into balance in 10 years by sharply cutting safety-net programs for the poor and by clamping down on domestic agencies.
Posted: 7:13 AM It's unknown what role Tom Clements' position as executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections might have played in the shooting Tuesday.
Posted: 7:12 AM As they struggle to get ahead, many low-wage workers are not taking advantage of job training or educational programs that could help them make the leap to better-paying jobs.
Posted: 7:11 AM Ed Graf was given life in prison 25 years ago for killing his two stepsons by locking them in a backyard shed and setting it on fire.
Posted: 7:09 AM Jonathan Standridge and Colton Harris-Moore made an odd couple as they sat together in the visiting room of a Washington state prison one day last spring.
Posted: 7:03 AM A decade ago, fur rancher Bob Zimbal had about 34,000 mink at his three southeastern Wisconsin farms. He was in survival mode, struggling to compete with farmers producing cheaper pelts overseas.
Posted: 7:01 AM Two suspects were dead after an attempted home invasion Wednesday afternoon in north Texas, and police said the pickup truck stolen by a wanted 17-year-old Oklahoma boy was found nearby.
Posted: 7:00 AM The defendants, their lawyers and even some prosecution witnesses said the true mastermind who put in place the scheme that bilked the city of Bell out of $5.5 million was disgraced former City Manager Robert Rizzo.
Updated: 8:36 PM Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. say they've developed a way to put glasses-free 3-D video on mobile devices with a wide enough viewing angle to allow viewers to see objects more fully just by tilting the screen.
Posted: 1:18 PM A central Kentucky jailer says an inmate who walked away from a work detail last week has been located in Ohio.
Posted: 12:24 PM The U.S. ambassador to Syria said Wednesday the Obama administration has no evidence to support President Bashar Assad's claims that U.S.-backed rebels used chemical weapons in northern Syria
