Arizona Lottery officials have released the name of the man who claimed half of the record Powerball jackpot.

The election is over, but President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is still at work.

Former President George H.W. Bush continues to recover at a Houston hospital where he's in the third week of treatment for a bronchitis-related cough.

A slow-moving storm has dumped at least 16 inches of snow on parts of Minnesota, blanketing the Twin Cities, making some rural roads impassable and leading to at least one fatal crash.

The latest count finds the number of homeless people stayed about the same between January 2011 and January 2012, with a drop in the number of veterans with no place to live and an increase among families.

An annual holiday concert attended by President Barack Obama and his family included something non-traditional this year: a performance by South Korean rapper and Internet sensation PSY.

FedEx expects today to be the busiest shipping day of the year and in its history.

President Barack Obama is heading to Michigan to ask auto workers to support his plan for averting the so-called fiscal cliff.

The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped ten cents over the past three weeks.

The attorney of a Southern California terror suspect is questioning authorities' handling of his client, who had injuries to his face and head when he was turned over to the FBI by U.S. military officials in Afghanistan.

Authorities in Cleveland say a man fatally shot his airport-security-officer wife, fired at a second person, and then killed himself at an off-site airport employee parking lot.

Labor unions and their Democratic allies acknowledge there's virtually no chance of preventing right-to-work legislation from being enacted in Michigan this week. But they're planning to fight to the end - and seek payback at the polls.

Sen. Bob Corker says his fellow Republicans in the Senate would probably agree to higher tax rates on the wealthiest Americans if it meant getting a chance to overhaul costly government entitlement programs such as Medicare.

Gay marriage supporters see 41 reasons to fret over the Supreme Court's decision to take up the case of California's ban on same-sex unions.

An Arizona Daily Star investigation has found that a system for holding U.S. Border Patrol agents accountable over shootings remains complicated and opaque.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says his team is grieving over the death of linebacker Jerry Brown as it gets ready to play the Cincinnati Bengals in a game that has major playoff implications.

James Bond is in a box-office photo finish with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

Sea turtle strandings in Massachusetts' Cape Cod Bay are so common that the phenomenon has its own season. But the brisk rate at which the cold-stunned turtles are washing ashore this year has packed a local rescue hospital.

The Lenox Lounge, a cabaret in New York City's Harlem neighborhood with a supercool, Art Deco style that made it a favorite of jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, is closing its doors on New Year's Eve.

Florida Republican Party leaders have a message for former Gov. Charlie Crist: Bring it on.

Puerto Rico's governor will hold an extraordinary session to push for approval of a resolution urging U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama to honor the results of a recent referendum that would change the island's political status.

Voters are deciding which of Louisiana's congressmen is to be pushed out because of the state's shrinking U.S. House delegation.

With marijuana now legal in Washington, people in neighboring states are wondering how it will impact them.

Two retired military women who fought for the rights of gays in the military were among the hundreds of couples who received their marriage licenses this week as Washington state's voter-approved law allowing same-sex marriage took effect.

Three state reports since 2005 and a 1978 law warned New York a storm as big as Sandy was coming.