Posted: 1:46 PM Detroit is broke and faces a bleak future given the precarious financial path it's on, according to a new report out by the city's state-appointed emergency manager.

Updated: 1:43 PM The Obama administration on Monday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription.

Posted: 5:29 AM Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, planned on Monday to seek depositions from retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering and retired Adm. Mike Mullen.

Posted: 5:26 AM New Orleans police vowed to swiftly track down the gunmen who wounded 19 people at a neighborhood Mother's Day parade, the latest case of violence flaring up around a celebration in the city this year.

Posted: 5:24 AM Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight remain in seclusion, releasing their first statements since they were found May 6 when Berry escaped and told a 911 dispatcher, "I'm free now."

Updated: 1:41 PM President Barack Obama said Monday he will not tolerate political bias at the Internal Revenue Service and promised to get to the bottom of the agency's admitted targeting of conservative groups.

Posted: 8:49 PM - A Southeast Texas woman is facing a felony charge for allegedly delaying hospital treatment of her teenage son's gunshot wound.

Posted: 8:42 PM The White House says it was inappropriate for the Internal Revenue Service to target tea party groups.

Posted: 8:35 PM Man goes beserk on bulldozer in Washington state.

Posted: 8:00 PM President Barack Obama is giving the federal personnel director six months to submit a strategy to address gender-based pay disparities.

Posted: 1:14 PM Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in a cemetery in Virginia with the help of a faith coalition, his uncle said Friday.

Posted: 12:14 PM Investigators have up to now largely treated the West Fertilizer Co. blast that killed 14 people as an industrial accident.

Posted: 11:45 AM The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

Posted: 11:11 AM A Virginia man is facing felony charges after being accused of phoning in two bomb threats to the Lee County Courthouse in order to avoid going to court.

Posted: 11:07 AM Ohio's attorney general says tests confirm that Ariel Castro is the father of the six-year-old girl who was held captive along with three women.

Posted: 10:07 AM A Duncanville, Texas school district says it is looking into a cell phone video-gone-viral of a student telling off his teacher about her poor teaching skills.

Posted: 9:07 AM The silver spire topping One World Trade Center on Friday was fully installed on the building's roof, bringing the structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet.

Posted: 6:54 AM In interviews with The Associated Press on Thursday, the relatives described Castro as a "monster" who abused his wife and locked his family inside their own home.

Posted: 6:52 AM Seven people were arrested in the U.S., accused of operating the New York cell of what prosecutors said was a network that carried out thefts at ATMs in 27 countries from Canada to Russia

Posted: 6:50 AM As Mother's Day approaches, 1 in 3 mothers are connected with their teens over Facebook, according to the social networking giant's review of how users self-identify.

Posted: 6:37 AM Shot three times while returning from scouting enemy lines in the Virginia wilderness, Jackson was badly wounded in the left arm by one of the large bullets the night of May 2, 1863

Posted: 6:15 AM As he entered the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building near the Capitol, the prince was greeted by a roar and shouts of "Harry!" from a crowd of about 500, nearly all of them women.

Posted: 9:43 PM An autopsy shows a University of North Carolina Chapel Hill student died earlier this year after inhaling computer cleaning spray.

Posted: 9:39 PM The Smithsonian Institution is adding relics from soap operas and game shows.

Updated: 3:36 PM They're just a little behind Major, the boy's name that jumped the most spots on the Social Security Administration's annual list of popular baby names.