Posted: 7:53 PM A Virginia Beach pizza shop owner is showing his support for firearm rights by giving gun owners a 15 percent discount.

Updated: 5:15 PM Southern California law enforcement authorities have identified the gunman in an unexplained shooting rampage as a 20-year-old unemployed part-time student.

Posted: 12:02 PM Iran is prepared to ease Western concerns about Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for pledges from the U.S. and others about the country's ability to enrich uranium.

Posted: 11:52 AM The unemployment rate for veterans between 18 and 24 exceeded 20 percent last year.

Updated: 3:24 AM Authorities say an NFL player has been arrested at a New York airport after police found a handgun in his luggage.

Posted: 1:56 PM Conventional wisdom holds that no one from the United States could be elected pope because the U.S. has more than enough worldly influence without an American in the seat of St. Peter.

Posted: 6:54 AM A man charged with slapping a toddler on a Minneapolis-to-Atlanta flight is out of a job, his former employer said Sunday.

Posted: 6:04 AM Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he has returned home to Venezuela after more than two months of medical treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery.

Updated: 11:33 PM Sheriff: Singer Mindy McCready died of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Posted: 6:48 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: 6:41 PM The head of the NAACP says even some members of the New York Police Department oppose the city's policy of street stops.

Updated: 8:18 AM Weeks before President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, White House aides were locking down a plan for the sales pitch that would follow during three days of travel focused on his main themes.

Updated: 8:19 AM Congress' latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would exempt more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle early identical to one of the guns used in the bloodiest shootout in FBI history.

Posted: 5:12 AM Passengers of the Carnival Triumph tried to put the memories of their nightmarish cruise behind them Friday, boarding buses and planes for home after five harrowing days aboard a vessel adrift at sea without power or working toilets.

Posted: 5:08 AM Get ready for two weeks of intensifying warnings about how crucial, popular government services are about to wither - including many threats that could eventually come true.

Posted: 7:42 PM In a spectacular fall from political prominence, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife agreed Friday to plead guilty to federal charges growing out of what prosecutors said was a scheme to use $750,000 in campaign funds for lavish personal expenses, including a $43,000 gold watch and furs.

Updated: 2:23 PM About 1,100 people were injured, many by flying glass as they flocked to windows to see what had caused the flash of light.

Posted: 3:44 AM A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and injuring more than 400 people.

Updated: 8:47 AM Passengers from a disabled cruise ship have arrived at a hotel in New Orleans after a days-long odyssey in the Gulf of Mexico that was marked by overflowing toilets, food shortages and foul odors.

Posted: 7:12 AM A government report says an increasing number of women are using the morning-after pill after sex.

Posted: 7:46 PM American Airlines and US Airways will merge and create the world's biggest airline. The boards of both companies approved the merger late Wednesday, according to three people close to the situation.

Posted: 2:07 PM While Afghan officials are welcoming the announcement by President Barack Obama that half of America's 66,000 troops in Afghanistan will be brought home within a year, some Afghan citizens are concerned.

Posted: 1:48 PM Lady Gaga says she's "heartsick" to postpone four shows after sustaining an injury that's left her unable to walk.

Posted: 1:36 PM Rapper DMX has been arrested in northwestern South Carolina for driving without a license.

Updated: 10:17 PM President Barack Obama declared the nation is unquestionably stronger Tuesday night in in his first State of the Union address since winning re-election, though he conceded America's economic revival is an "unfinished task."