The 18 people charged in a massive $200 million credit card fraud scheme are apparently patient.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says the U.S. is vulnerable to cyberattacks that could shut down financial services or destroy information that companies need for daily operations.

Airports in New York and Boston were ramping up service as they attempted to return to normal operations following a massive snowstorm that crippled parts of the East Coast.

The persistent drought is taking a toll on producers of ethanol, with corn becoming so scarce that nearly two dozen ethanol plants have been forced to halt production.

"Identity Thief" has turned out to be the real thing at the box office.

To scientists' excitement, the Curiosity rover has completed its first drilling on Mars and is preparing to analyze a pinch of powdery rock.

Dozens of flights out of Los Angeles International Airport have been canceled due to the blizzard on the east coast.

A funeral service is under way for a 15-year-old Chicago girl whose killing has brought national attention to Chicago's staggering gun violence.

Salmon have long been known to use their sense of smell to find their home river when it comes time to spawn, but how do they get close enough to smell the river?

A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books began clobbering the New York-to-Boston corridor on Friday, grounding flights, closing workplaces and sending people rushing to get home ahead of a possible 1 to 3 feet of snow.

NASA is set to launch a new Earth-observing satellite designed to carry on the tradition of documenting changes to the planet's glaciers, forests and coastlines.

Immigration activists say they won't settle for anything short of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in a bill emerging in Congress.

A criminal investigation is under way after a hacker apparently accessed private photos and emails sent between members of the Bush family, including both former presidents.

A storm poised to dump up to 3 feet of snow from New York City to Boston and beyond beginning Friday could be one for the record books.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A push for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide is under way in a half-dozen states where proponents say they see strong support for it.

The head of the National Rifle Association says he's confident that Congress won't approve an assault weapons ban or an ammunition limit in the wake of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut.

The body of a man who held a 5-year-old boy hostage for nearly a week before dying in a shootout with the FBI has finally been removed from his underground bunker in Alabama.

Does scanning emails and answering calls from bosses on your smartphone after hours constitute work that should be compensated? A lawsuit winding its way through federal court in Chicago says that it does.

The Pentagon says pending automatic budget cuts will force it to reduce its presence in the Persian Gulf.

Students may soon be able to receive college credit for the free online classes that are reshaping higher education.

A Washington judge defended his decision to keep the public and media from hearing proceedings related to the 2001 Chandra Levy murder case and said information about them would be available soon.

Authorities say they rescued a frail 17-year-old boy whom they found handcuffed to a pole in his parents' Kansas City, Mo., basement.

Authorities say a fourth person has died after a morning pileup on a foggy Georgia interstate.

Denver police say two children under 10 years old and a woman were killed and a third child was wounded in an apparent shooting at a house in the northeast part of the city.

John and Ann Betar of Connecticut have been married so long they're getting national recognition.