Posted: 10:18 PM Some Republicans in Congress are gearing up to oppose the nomination of Thomas Perez to be labor secretary.

Posted: 9:44 PM The White House says the leaders of four African nations will meet with President Barack Obama later this month at the White House.

Posted: 7:17 PM The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a Minnesota woman who has been ordered to pay record companies $222,000 for the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music.

Posted: 4:40 PM The potential Democratic presidential candidates who support gay marriage now include Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Posted: 4:37 PM North Dakota lawmakers are considering even more stringent abortion laws, drawing criticism from a group of doctors.

Posted: 4:34 PM Authorities are investigating whether a faulty steering wheel caused a California raceway crash that killed two people, including the young cousin of the teenage driver.

Posted: 3:59 PM A judge has rejected an Arizona salon owner's claims that her constitutional rights were violated when cosmetology regulators forced her to stop offering pedicures that use fish to nibble the dead skin off people's feet.

Posted: 8:16 AM Hundreds of students have been evacuated from a dorm on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando after explosives devices were found while authorities were investigating a death.

Posted: 10:14 PM Amtrak has resumed service between New York and Boston after rail lines in Connecticut were blocked by a derailed freight train.

Posted: 3:21 PM President Barack Obama's proposal to expand access to preschool is seen as a way to close the achievement gap for poor and minority students.

Posted: 1:26 PM Two Ohio high school football players who were found guilty of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl have been sentenced to at least one year in juvenile jail.

Posted: 12:14 AM Officials say a race car ran into two people at a California raceway.

Posted: 10:22 PM Returning to the national stage, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says the Republican Party must broaden its message in order to grow.

Posted: 10:14 PM An 11-year-old suburban Chicago boy who was hit by a Metra commuter train lost a foot but is "in good spirits."

Posted: 9:21 PM The new mayor of the Utah city of Helper got a little help from Lady Luck for his job.

Updated: 9:37 PM Nothing was going to keep Eric and Faith DeVault from watching the Big 12 title game.

Posted: 5:08 PM Opening statements begin this week in the murder trial of a man who spent two decades impersonating a member of the fabled Rockefeller family.

Posted: 4:57 PM The raffle of a semiautomatic rifle to benefit a youth baseball league in eastern Illinois hasn't even officially begun, but it's already generating interest as far away as Alaska and Florida.

Posted: 3:48 PM Crowds cheered and bagpipes bellowed as New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day parade kicked off on Fifth Avenue.

Posted: 3:42 PM NFL free agent Donte Stallworth is hospitalized with serious burns after the hot air balloon carrying him and two other people crashed into power lines above South Florida.

Posted: 3:38 PM Authorities say the pregnant coach of a women's college lacrosse team was one of the two victims of a bus crash in central Pennsylvania.

Posted: 10:35 PM A small plane crashed into a parking lot near a South Florida airport, killing all three people onboard and burning about a dozen cars.

Posted: 10:15 PM Lil Wayne says he's OK.

Posted: 4:31 PM The planned shutdown of as many as 238 air traffic control towers across the country under federal budget cuts will strip away an extra layer of safety during takeoffs and landings, leaving pilots to manage the most critical stages of flight on their own.

Posted: 4:27 PM President Barack Obama says the U.S. must shift its cars and trucks entirely off oil to avoid perpetual fluctuations in gas prices.