Posted: 4:09 PM Two disc jockeys who made a prank call pretending to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles won't be returning to their jobs for a while.

Posted: 4:07 PM The Obama administration is extending waivers on U.S. sanctions it has granted to major Asian petroleum consumers, including China, India and South Korea, for reducing their imports of Iranian oil.

Posted: 3:59 PM Reaction to the monthly jobs numbers isn't what it used to be.

Posted: 3:55 PM Ford is recalling about 19,000 brand-new Fusion midsize cars to fix defective headlights.

Posted: 7:26 AM More than 2,000 people are expected at Pearl Harbor to mark the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and pulled the United States into World War II.

Posted: 7:25 AM A month after his re-election, President Barack Obama has his highest approval ratings since the killing of terror leader Osama bin Laden. An Associated Press-GfK poll also finds that more Americans say the nation is heading in the right direction now than at any time since the start of Obama's first term.

Posted: 7:24 AM Thousands of utility workers from New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts say many are still waiting to be fully compensated for their efforts to restore power after Superstorm Sandy.

Posted: 7:22 AM While the debate over the "fiscal cliff" dominates the headlines, the dispute over increasing the government's borrowing limit to pay its debts is heating up too.

Posted: 7:07 AM President Barack Obama has repeated his opposition to right-to-work laws as the Republican-controlled Michigan Legislature adopted the union-curbing measure.

Posted: 10:10 PM Vienna's transport authority says a city bus driver checking a bag left behind by a passenger had the surprise of his life - €390,000 (more than $500,000) in neatly stacked 500-euro bills.

Posted: 10:08 PM Authorities say the death toll from a strong typhoon that hit the Philippines has risen to about 420 people and nearly 400 are missing.

Posted: 9:54 PM The White House says President Barack Obama will visit a suburban Detroit auto plant Monday afternoon, a visit an aide says is to part of an effort to make the case for raising tax rates on wealthier Americans.

Posted: 4:44 PM Five states are being awarded a share of $133 million in federal grants for early childhood learning.

Posted: 4:36 PM The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.

Posted: 8:14 AM The dealmakers who warn that a year-end plunge off the "fiscal cliff" would be disastrous don't seem to be rushing to stop it.

Posted: 8:12 AM New data show that sales of U.S. homes facing foreclosure are on the rise and outpacing sales of bank-owned homes.

Posted: 4:22 PM The Obama administration says it is aware that several countries in the Middle East and elsewhere have informally offered to grant asylum to Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family if they leave Syria.

Posted: 4:20 PM Three California men have pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges for allegedly plotting to kill Americans overseas.

Posted: 4:19 PM The University of Colorado at Denver has released thousands of documents that may relate to the man accused in the Colorado theater shootings, but much of the material appears to be heavily redacted.

Posted: 8:34 AM Another Starbucks may soon pop up around the corner, with the world's biggest coffee company planning to add at least 1,500 cafes in the U.S. over the next five years.

Posted: 8:32 AM Recordings of a 911 call show Javon Belcher's mother begging her son's dying girlfriend to stay alive after the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker shot her.

Posted: 8:15 AM The photographer who took the picture of a New York City man who'd been pushed into the path of a subway train says he was too far down the platform to have saved him.

Posted: 10:30 PM Police say Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher spent some of his final hours sleeping in his car outside the home of another woman whom he described as his "girlfriend."

Posted: 10:10 PM A court date has been set to discuss a New York City hotel maid's sexual assault lawsuit against former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Posted: 10:08 PM The woman who was listed as the world's oldest person has died in a Georgia nursing home at age 116.