Updated: 11:35 AM The Ohio attorney general says tests have confirmed that alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl rescued from his house with three women this week.
Updated: 4:13 PM The Dow Jones industrial average is punching through another milestone: its first close above 15,000.
Posted: 2:20 PM A spokesman says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie underwent gastric and surgery in February to try to lose weight.
Updated: 1:14 PM A Cleveland police official says a 6-year-old girl found in the house where three missing women were kept for years is the daughter of one of them.
Posted: 7:54 PM The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping - for many a largely tax-free frontier - to state sales taxes.
Updated: 9:45 PM A Cambridge city official says it would not be in the interest of "peace within the city" to execute a cemetery deed for a plot at Cambridge Cemetery for the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Updated: 10:21 AM The driver of a limousine that burst into flames on a San Francisco Bay area bridge, killing five women, says he at first misunderstood what one of the passengers in the back was saying when she complained about smelling smoke.
Posted: 6:33 AM Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said.
Posted: 6:29 AM National Rifle Association leaders told members Saturday that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year's midterm elections, but they vowed that none in the organization will ever have to surrender their weapons.
Posted: 6:25 AM Lawyers for a man charged with lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings are asking a federal judge to release him from jail, saying he had nothing to do with the deadly bombings and isn't a flight risk.
Posted: 4:02 PM The public face of the National Rifle Association is imploring members to never surrender their weapons in the wake of recent gun control efforts in Congress that he said will "destroy us and every ounce of our freedom."
Posted: 5:03 AM The incoming leader of the National Rifle Association has a long history with the powerful gun rights lobby and a penchant for bold statements that are sure to enflame an already explosive national debate over gun control.
Updated: 4:56 AM The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents "effective immediately" to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston bombings.
Posted: 12:15 PM Customs officials are being ordered "effective immediately" to verify that every foreign student arriving in the U.S. has a valid student visa.
Updated: 12:02 PM State officials say thousands of people with medical problems are in danger of losing coverage as the Obama administration winds down one of the earliest programs in the federal health care overhaul.
Posted: 8:04 AM An overnight fire at the Labor Department's headquarters has shut the building down for most employees.
Updated: 12:29 PM An American military tanker refueling plane carrying three crew members crashed Friday in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
Posted: 8:22 PM Rhode Island has become the 10th state to allow same-sex couples to marry following Gov. Lincoln Chafee's signature of gay marriage legislation.
Posted: 8:27 PM Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism.
Updated: 4:03 PM Three men who attended college with the Boston Marathon suspect have been charged in connection with the case.
Updated: 8:45 PM President Barack Obama intends to nominate Rep. Melvin Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator that oversees lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a White House official said Tuesday.
Updated: 7:25 PM The defense team representing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect got a major boost Monday with the addition of Judy Clarke, a San Diego lawyer who has won life sentences instead of the death penalty for several high-profile clients, including the Unabomber.
Posted: 12:37 PM NBA veteran center Jason Collins has become the first active male professional athlete in the major four American sports leagues to come out as gay.
