Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson has been appointed to be the next superintendent of the Air Force Academy, the first woman to hold the job.

Science experiments by the NASA Mars rover Curiosity have been put on hold as engineers troubleshoot a problem with its computer.

A judge has dismissed all but one count in a civil lawsuit by Michael Jackson's mother against concert giant AEG Live over the pop superstar's death.

Officials say a sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man is seriously unstable and they think it will grow.

Police say a toddler who bounced out the second-story window of a Spokane home was saved by his mother who leaped after him.

A man who shot seven people before killing himself at a Wisconsin salon asked a taxi driver for advice on how to handle his wife on his way there.

Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect have indicated their client might plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

President Barack Obama says there was no way he could avoid urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage.

A federal judge in California is erasing nearly half of the $1 billion in damages that a jury decided Samsung Electronics should pay Apple in a high-profile trial over the smartphone and tablet computer patents.

Gov. Chris Christie indicates he'll appeal a judge's decision upholding a ban on sports gambling in New Jersey.

Lawmakers are becoming the target of aggressive and sometimes threating emails and phone calls as the debate over stricter gun laws escalates in state capitols.

A private rocket is poised to blast off on a supply run to the International Space Station.

The Associated Press has learned that the Homeland Security Department released more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation from immigration jails in recent weeks because of looming budget cuts. It also planned to release 3,000 more during March.

In a decision released late Thursday, a federal judge upheld a 1992 law prohibiting sports wagering in 46 of 50 U.S. states, including New Jersey.

An Indiana judge has frozen a $9.5 million lottery prize until a legal battle over the jackpot involving several hairstylists is settled.

The Pentagon says it has lifted an order that briefly grounded its fleet of F-35 fighter jets.

The cancer charity founded by Lance Armstrong is changing its annual day of action as a step toward charting its own course without its founder.

Prosecutors want a former Carnegie Mellon University trustee accused of money laundering to forfeit $2.5 million in cash.

A U.S. Army judge has accepted guilty pleas on 10 charges from a soldier accused in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history.

Senate Republicans have killed a plan backed by President Barack Obama to replace $111 billion in government spending cuts this year with a new minimum tax on the wealthy and cuts to defense and farm subsidies that would be slower to strike.

Vice President Joe Biden is applauding the House vote to renew the Violence Against Women Act.

Lawmakers are looking to boost Maine's troubled lobster industry with proposals to pump more money into marketing the state's signature seafood and give tax breaks to encourage more lobster processing.

The horse meat scandal that is hitting Europe has not spread to the United States, allowing American consumers to rest easier when buying ground beef or sitting down for a plate of meatballs at Ikea.

The latest craze to sweep the Internet is bringing college students the wrong kind of attention - from the Federal Aviation Administration.

A Philadelphia judge who acquitted a police lieutenant of assaulting a woman in a videotaped arrest is himself married to a city officer.