Posted: 7:49 AM The Supreme Court is starting a new term and it's shaping up to be as important as the last one. There's the prospect of major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.
Posted: 7:47 AM The Boy Scouts of America plan to begin bringing suspected abusers to the attention of police departments and sheriff's offices across the country.
Posted: 7:32 AM Some illegal immigrants could get California drivers licenses under a bill signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Posted: 7:28 AM California will become the first state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight.
Posted: 7:27 AM Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have provided overtime pay, meal breaks and other labor protections to an estimated 200,000 caregivers, nannies, and house cleaners in California.
Posted: 7:26 AM Police say two people are dead and another injured after a shooting at a Florida Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
Posted: 7:24 AM President Barack Obama says he's "just okay" at debating, as his campaign continued trying to lower expectations ahead of his first face-off with Republican Mitt Romney.
Posted: 8:24 PM An estimated 2,000 people are protesting in Haiti's capital against the government of President Michel Martelly.
Posted: 8:19 PM Police say two people are dead and another is injured after a shooting at a central Florida Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
Posted: 8:17 PM Mitt Romney's running mate is playing down the need for a breakthrough in the first presidential debate Wednesday night.
Posted: 8:16 PM Vice President Joe Biden says that he and President Barack Obama had been on the job less than a week when a top economic adviser told them the country was facing a trillion-dollar budget deficit.
Posted: 8:15 PM Italy's foreign minister says the option of an Israeli attack against Iranian nuclear facilities is a concrete possibility.
Posted: 10:00 PM A retired Pennsylvania pastor insists both of his wives died accidentally. Prosecutors call him a liar - and a killer.
Posted: 9:52 PM Arnold Schwarzenegger says his wife, Maria Shriver, was criticized by her mother for trying to persuade him against running for California governor in 2003, a confrontation that ultimately opened the door to his successful candidacy.
Posted: 9:49 PM Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for two Tennessee children missing since a fire burned down their home five days ago, saying there is no evidence they were victims of the blaze.
Posted: 6:43 AM The U.S. Postal Service is on the brink of default on a second multibillion-dollar payment it can't afford to pay.
Posted: 6:41 AM Dozens of volunteers armed with clipboards and voter registration forms gather at President Barack Obama's Raleigh, N.C., field office every day. Their mission: Fan out across the city seeking new voters in the rapidly growing state.
Posted: 6:39 AM After weeks of secrecy surrounding the Colorado theater shooting case, most of the documents that have been filed in court will be released to the public.
Posted: 6:37 AM Authorities say a gunman killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign-making business before turning the weapon on himself.
Posted: 9:23 PM The crew of the Costa Concordia has been award the "Searfarer of the Year" award at the Lloyds List Global Awards ceremony for "the courage and professionality" demonstrated by crew members when the ship hit rocks and capsized last January.
Posted: 9:20 PM A federal judge has ordered the man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East to be detained because he is a flight risk.
Posted: 9:06 PM A federal judge gave his final approval Thursday to a $42.6 million class-action settlement between companies that made and installed government-issued trailers after hurricanes in 2005 and Gulf Coast storm victims who claim they were exposed to hazardous fumes while living in the shelters.
Posted: 8:55 PM The Big Apple is getting another "biggest": the world's tallest Ferris wheel, part of an ambitious plan to draw New Yorkers and tourists alike to the city's so-called "forgotten borough."
Posted: 4:54 PM Get in line, Medicare and Social Security. Seniors, like just about everyone else, have money on their minds.
Posted: 7:59 AM Emmy-winning TV host and "Moon River" crooner Andy Williams has died at age 84.
