Posted: 6:22 AM The defense team representing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect got a major boost Monday with the addition of Judy Clarke

Updated: 6:20 AM Looking for a new way to get that jolt of caffeine energy? Food companies are betting snacks like potato chips, jelly beans and gum with a caffeinated kick could be just the answer.

Posted: 6:17 AM Last summer, NBA veteran Jason Collins considered joining an old Stanford college roommate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, at Boston's gay pride parade.

Posted: 6:14 AM Poker devotees will soon be able to skip the smoky casino and legally gamble their dollars away on the couch — at least in the state of Nevada.

Posted: 6:13 AM Michael Jackson's words and music rang through a courtroom once again on Monday as a lawyer tried to show jurors the pop singer's loving relationship with his mother and children.

Updated: 12:31 PM Launched in February, Pet Food Stamps has received over to 160,000 applications from needy families across the country. Marc Okon is the charity's founder.

Posted: 1:48 PM The White House is commending NBA veteran Jason Collins for becoming the first active male player in the four major American professional sports to come out as gay.

Posted: 12:16 PM NBA veteran center Jason Collins has become the first active male professional athlete in the major four American sports leagues to come out as gay.

Updated: 1:46 PM The angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insists that her sons are innocent and that she's no terrorist.

Updated: 1:46 PM A Mississippi man charged with making a deadly poison sent to President Barack Obama and others was ordered held without bond until a hearing later this week.

Updated: 7:40 AM The most complete account of Michael Jackson's final months is about to unfold in a cramped Los Angeles courtroom nearly four years after the pop superstar's death.

Posted: 6:12 AM Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them are gathering for what could be their last big reunion at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Updated: 9:37 PM New York police have secured a lower Manhattan site where surveyors discovered what appears to be part of one of the planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Posted: 1:32 PM A state review of election problems in Davidson County has concluded the outcomes of two 2012 primary elections could have been influenced by voting technology bungling.

Updated: 1:37 PM The House approved the measure Friday on a 361-41 vote, one day after the Senate agreed to the bill. The action came with lawmakers streaming toward the doors for a week-long spring recess.

Posted: 1:17 PM Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem.

Updated: 12:34 PM The Senate voted 63-30 Thursday to advance a bill that would impose state and local sales taxes on purchases made over the Internet.

Posted: 7:04 AM The bill passed late Thursday without even a roll call vote, and House officials indicated it likely would be brought up for quick approval there.

Posted: 7:02 AM More than 100 crucial gauges that warn of imminent flooding or lack of needed water will be shut down starting next month as part of the federal government's automatic budget cuts.

Posted: 7:01 AM Students at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies are taking more courses and participating in elaborate cyberwarfare exercises as the military educates a generation of future commanders

Posted: 6:59 AM "This small town's family is bigger now," Obama said during a memorial service at Baylor University for victims of last week's explosion in nearby West, Texas, that killed 14 and injured 200.

Posted: 6:50 AM The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central Massachusetts.

Updated: 5:16 AM Some dogs will eat just about anything, from chicken bones to plants to prescription pills. One poor pooch from Colo. lost her life after eating another item found commonly in households: a penny.

Posted: 9:07 AM The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, the second-lowest level in more than five years.

Posted: 7:00 AM For years, House Republicans have adamantly refused to raise income taxes, even though U.S. taxes are historically low, and the Bush-era tax cuts were a major cause of the current deficit.