(NBC NEWS) Despite a volatile and eventful past few weeks in the early presidential contest, President Barack Obama continues to hold a small - and slightly narrowing - lead over Mitt Romney, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The jury deciding the fate of former presidential candidate John Edwards has finished a third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.

A US Airways jetliner that diverted to Maine because a passenger passed a note saying she had a surgically implanted device is back on its way to North Carolina.

A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.

A 74-year-old Michigan woman has been charged with murder in the shooting death of her 17-year-old grandson.

Robin Gibb, a founding member of the Bee Gees who helped propel the group to international stardom, has died. He was 62.

The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says American troops will still be involved combat next year even as the U.S. officially shifts to a support role.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60.

Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.

One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least four people, toppled buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said.

President Barack Obama is joining with leaders of other top economic powers in calling for more emphasis on jobs and growth while reducing debt.

The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn’t matter how often he’d been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean for his legacy.

Mark Zuckerberg has updated his Facebook status to "married."

Three activists who traveled to Chicago for a NATO summit were accused Saturday of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets.

A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country has arrived in the U.S.

The NAACP has passed a resolution endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts "to codify discrimination or hatred into the law."

President Barack Obama says there's an "emerging consensus" that more must be done to promote jobs growth in Europe as the continent faces a daunting debt crisis.

President Barack Obama holds a cash advantage of more than 2-to-1 over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, but the president's money advantage is beginning to dwindle.

Roger Clemens' lawyer went through the syringes and medical waste from a Miller Lite can item by item trying to cast doubt on whether they were used to inject the famous pitcher with performance-enhancing drugs.

A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy.

The U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Miami has chosen The Weather Channel's tropical weather expert to be its next chief.

Facebook stock is rising more than10 percent in the world's biggest online social network's debut as a publicly traded company.

May details were revealed in nearly 200 pages of documents, photos and audio recordings released Thursday in the Trayvon Martin death case that's riveted the nation.

Take a look at this! A fan shows some skin, a would be thief goes over the handlebars, and a massive rock slide.

Police in Canada say they are waiting for a man accused of stealing a $20,000 diamond and swallowing it to produce the evidence.