Connecticut Officials: Commuter Trains Collide Outside NYC, 60 Hurt
Updated: 05/17/13 - Gov. Malloy: 60 transported to hospitals after Conn. train crash, 5 critical, 1 very critical. Read More
Updated: 05/17/13 - Gov. Malloy: 60 transported to hospitals after Conn. train crash, 5 critical, 1 very critical. Read More
Posted: 05/16/13 - A judge has refused to halt Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's policy denying driver's licenses for young immigrants who have gotten work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy. Read More
Updated: 05/16/13 - Greenville Tea Party leader Diane Rufino says the local group was not targeted, but she believes what happened across the country with other conservative groups is criminal. Read More
Posted: 05/15/13 - Officials report a tornado caused "multiple fatalities" as it tore through two neighborhoods of a North Texas town. Read More
Posted: 05/15/13 - Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. Read More
Posted: 05/15/13 - Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records. Read More
Updated: 05/17/13 - The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views. Read More
Posted: 05/15/13 - The Cleveland man is accused of keeping three women in captivity for about a decade. Read More
Updated: 05/14/13 - A court martial for Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair is scheduled to begin June 25 on charges that include forcible sodomy, indecent acts, violating orders and adultery. Read More
Updated: 05/14/13 - A decade-old benchmark for determining when a driver is legally intoxicated -- the 0.08 blood-alcohol content rate -- should be lowered to 0.05, reducing the amount a motorist can drink before being presumed to be drunk, federal safety officials said Tuesday. Read More
Posted: 05/14/13 - Russian officials say Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, was carrying special technical equipment, disguises, written instructions and a large sum of money when he was detained overnight. Read More
Updated: 05/14/13 - Actress and director Angelina Jolie has revealed in a New York Times op-ed that she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy. Read More
Posted: 05/13/13 - A Marine officer in charge of snipers shown in a 2011 video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters Afghanistan will be court-martialed. Read More
Posted: 05/13/13 - The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. Read More
Posted: 05/13/13 - An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, "house of horrors" clinic. Read More
Posted: 05/13/13 - President Barack Obama tried to swat down a pair of brewing controversies Monday, denouncing as "outrageous" the targeting of conservative political groups by the federal IRS but angrily denying any administration cover-up after last year's deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Read More
Posted: 05/12/13 - Police say that two of the 18 people shot in New Orleans during a neighborhood Mother's Day parade were children. Read More
Posted: 05/12/13 - Police say the bodies of a woman and a 13-year-old boy have been found after a dayslong standoff in New Jersey, and a suspect was killed in the rescue of three children inside the home. Read More
Posted: 05/12/13 - Attorney General Eric Holder says those who argue that civilian courts are incapable are handling terrorism cases "are simply wrong." Read More
Posted: 05/12/13 - A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking. Read More
Posted: 05/11/13 - Two astronauts will do a spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the power system at the International Space Station. Read More
Posted: 05/10/13 - Officials in Newtown, Conn. say the district should tear down the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December and construct a new building on the property. Read More
Posted: 05/10/13 - Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails. Read More
Posted: 05/10/13 - The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a Friday statement that the agency has instructed the Texas Rangers and the McLennan County Sheriff's Department to launch a criminal probe. Read More
Posted: 05/10/13 - Bangladesh rescue workers have freed a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed building. Read More