Posted: 8:07 AM Hundreds of pages of police reports in the investigation of the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords are being made public.

Posted: 8:05 AM The Supreme Court is hearing the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.

Posted: 4:55 PM A team of scientists have determined that a 5.6 magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 was caused when oil drilling waste was injected deep underground.

Posted: 4:53 PM Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes are objecting to a Fox News reporter's request to delay her court appearance to testify about her confidential sources.

Posted: 8:18 AM North Korea's military warned Tuesday that its artillery and rocket forces are at their highest-level combat posture in the latest in a string of bellicose threats aimed at South Korea and the United States.

Posted: 8:14 AM Italy’s highest court has overturned acquittals against Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The pair will be retried for the murder of Knox’s former roommate.

Posted: 10:44 PM Authorities say a 10-year-old boy was killed in North Carolina when he was shot by his father while the parent cleaned a shotgun.

Posted: 9:58 PM A 44-year-old New Jersey man is the winner of a $338 million Powerball jackpot.

Posted: 9:34 PM State police are investigating a woman's body found in a roadside ditch in Monroe County's Ash Township, about 30 miles southwest of Detroit.

Posted: 6:57 PM The Mars rover Curiosity is humming again after being sidelined by back-to-back computer problems.

Posted: 6:49 PM President Barack Obama was marking Monday night's start of Passover with a private Seder at the White House.

Posted: 4:54 PM A Nevada lawmaker who has been arrested twice and accused of threatening to harm his political colleagues could be the first person in Nevada history to be kicked out of the Legislature.

Posted: 4:38 PM Five days into spring, warm weather and budding flowers are just a rumor as the East Coast endures another blast of winter.

Posted: 3:57 PM The Supreme Court is considering whether drug companies should be allowed to pay generic drugmakers to keep lower-priced versions off the market for a while.

Posted: 3:54 PM Lottery officials say a single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot.

Posted: 3:53 PM The National Park Service says the Ellis Island Immigration Museum "will not likely be open in 2013" as damage from Superstorm Sandy is repaired.

Updated: 3:56 PM Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic "no."

Posted: 11:49 PM A new $12 million television ad campaign from Mayors Against Illegal Guns will push senators in key states to back gun control efforts including comprehensive background checks.

Posted: 9:53 PM President Barack Obama has returned to Washington after a four-day visit to the Mideast, his first foreign trip of his second term.

Posted: 9:50 PM Authorities say a skydive instructor and a student who jumped separately have died in Florida.

Posted: 4:55 PM Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the anguish of closing 54 schools pales in comparison to the damage done by "trapping" kids in failing schools.

Posted: 4:32 PM Actress Ashley Judd gave a not-so-subtle hint on Friday that she's nearing a decision about seeking the Democratic nomination to run against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.

Posted: 4:26 PM Advocates of a move to help states collect sales taxes on Internet transactions have won a Senate victory.

Posted: 3:52 PM Sixty years ago this month, scientist Francis Crick wrote a letter to his 12-year-old son saying he and a colleague had discovered something "very beautiful" - the structure of DNA.

Posted: 3:48 PM The White House is praising the $3.7 trillion budget Democrats squeezed through the Senate early Saturday.