Posted: 4:39 PM Adults who've begun working toward their GED are being urged to finish up this year, before the test for a high school equivalency diploma changes and they have to start all over.
Posted: 4:38 PM The new White House chief of staff says there's "a grave concern" about delays in assembling President Barack Obama's second-term national security team.
Posted: 4:23 PM An 18-year-old Chicago woman was killed just hours after her sister sat on the stage at President Barack Obama's speech about gun violence at an area school.
Posted: 3:59 PM After backlash from customers, the producer of Maker's Mark bourbon is reversing a decision to cut the amount of alcohol in bottles of its famous whiskey.
Posted: 4:11 PM The average price for a gallon of gasoline across the U.S. is up to $3.67 a gallon.
Posted: 4:10 PM A maze of maritime regulations and fragmented oversight of the cruise industry make it tough for consumers to assess the health and safety record of ships they're about to board for vacation.
Posted: 9:56 PM Congress is weighing in on international condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test, and Republicans are calling on the Obama administration to revamp its policy and take a tougher stance against Pyongyang.
Posted: 9:52 PM The Obama administration is quietly winding down one of the earliest programs created by the president's health care overhaul law.
Posted: 9:51 PM Authorities say fugitive former cop Christopher Dorner died of a single gunshot wound to the head as authorities were pumping tear gas into a mountain cabin during a deadly gun battle with sheriff's deputies.
Posted: 4:25 PM The White House says President Barack Obama wants to give Marine Gen. John Allen time to consider his next assignment before deciding whether to proceed with his nomination to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Europe.
Posted: 4:23 PM Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has been charged with spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses. His wife was charged with filing false income tax forms.
Posted: 4:21 PM Some Russians thought it was the end of the world.
Updated: 4:20 PM The White House says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet with President Barack Obama next Friday.
Posted: 7:11 AM Senate Republicans have forced Leon Panetta to remain in the job he is eager to give up. They did that by delaying a confirmation vote on Chuck Hagel as defense secretary.
Posted: 7:06 AM There's a reason Republicans are continuing to defy President Obama. It's what their constituents want.
Posted: 7:03 AM The House is voting on whether to extend the current pay freeze for the nation's 2 million civilian federal workers.
Updated: 7:02 AM The asteroid will be too faint to see with the naked eye.
Posted: 6:59 AM The vacation ship carrying some 4,200 people docked late Thursday in Mobile after five numbing days at sea without power.
Posted: 6:58 AM Police say a 19-year-old woman has been charged in the abduction of a 5-year-old girl from her Philadelphia elementary school last month.
Posted: 6:56 AM President Barack Obama is wrapping up his post-State of the Union tour by talking about how government can build what he calls "ladders of opportunity" into the middle class.
Updated: 12:36 AM The first buses carrying passengers from a disabled cruise ship are pulling away to take them to next stop on their odyssey.
Posted: 3:19 PM A Coast Guard official says a disabled cruise ship is stopped off the coast of Alabama because of a broken towline attached to one of the boats towing the vessel.
Posted: 3:13 PM A southern Illinois family is finding their homemade maple syrup operation anything but sweet after investigators swarmed their property, mistaking their sap collection for a meth lab.
Posted: 3:02 PM A merged American Airlines and US Airways will carry more passengers around the world than any other, but even the biggest airline flying doesn't need eight hub airports on the ground.
Posted: 8:09 AM A judge presiding over the trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is holding a hearing to discuss scheduling and jury selection.
