Posted: 12:55 PM France's foreign minister says the United States is providing communications and transport help for an international military intervention aimed at wresting Mali's north out of the hands of Islamist extremists.
Posted: 12:38 PM A massive new federal scientific report says global warming is already changing America from sea to rising sea and how Americans live.
Posted: 12:05 PM Newtown officials are turning their attention to the fate of an elementary school where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators last month.
Posted: 2:22 PM The White House has ruled out minting a coin worth $1 trillion to pay the government's bills and avoid a nasty battle with Congress over the debt ceiling.
Updated: 12:33 PM New York's governor has declared a public health emergency for the state because of the severity of the flu season.
Posted: 12:20 PM A Connecticut group says Vice President Joe Biden has offered to talk with families of the victims of last month's school shooting who would like to speak with him personally.
Updated: 1:22 PM Geothermal energy developers working on the flanks of an ancient Oregon volcano say they have taken an important technological step toward expanding geothermal energy into a major source of homegrown power.
Posted: 11:01 AM Lance Armstrong will make a limited confession to doping during his interview with Oprah Winfrey, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
Posted: 9:59 AM A fugitive wanted by Arizona and California authorities has been handed over by Mexican authorities.
Posted: 9:46 AM Thousands of Puerto Ricans are demanding justice for a university professor arrested after refusing to return her toddler to her ex-husband in the mainland U.S. under a court-ordered agreement.
Updated: 9:41 AM A parade of beauties from every state are primping and prepping to compete for the Miss America crown Saturday night.
Updated: 11:55 PM The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Java software on their computers to avoid potential hacking attacks.
Posted: 7:20 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - Regulators say they have closed a small lender in Washington state, making it the first U.S. bank failure of 2013 following 51 closures last year.
Updated: 2:04 PM At least three men have been hurt in an explosion that destroyed a home and scattered debris throughout a North Texas neighborhood.
Posted: 12:32 PM A rural school district in Ohio is drawing attention with its plans to arm a handful of its non-teaching employees with handguns this year - perhaps even janitors.
Updated: 2:00 PM Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is calling for state-funded, specialized firearms training for teachers and administrators to guard against school shootings.
Updated: 10:45 AM President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai say in a statement that the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is expected to shift to a support role later this spring - a few months earlier than expected.
Posted: 10:12 AM A Republican congressman and OB-GYN says former Rep. Todd Akin was "partly right" when he said women's bodies can avoid pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."
Posted: 9:26 AM An American Airlines flight heading from Las Vegas to Dallas has made an emergency landing in Albuquerque.
Posted: 8:34 AM A judge has granted authorities permission to exhume the body of a Chicago lottery winner who was fatally poisoned with cyanide just as he was about to collect his $425,000 payout.
Updated: 8:33 AM The man accused of the Colorado theater shooting won't have to enter a plea until March.
Updated: 8:34 AM House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) has invited President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the Union speech on Feb. 12.
Updated: 8:25 AM Federal regulators say they are ordering a comprehensive review of the critical systems of Boeing's 787s, the aircraft maker's newest and most technologically advanced plane, after a fire and a fuel leak earlier this week.
Posted: 5:32 AM Vice President Joe Biden is reaching out to the video game industry as the White House seeks to assemble proposals to combat gun violence in response to last month's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
Updated: 4:10 AM Connecticut's chief medical examiner says he doubts toxicological tests and genetic analysis of the body of the gunman who fatally shot 20 children and six educators at an elementary school will explain his actions.
