The New York utility company Consolidated Edison says it has received a subpoena from the state attorney general and is cooperating with his investigation of the preparation and response to Superstorm Sandy.

Texas prison officials have executed a registered sex offender for the rape, robbery and slaying of a woman abducted from a San Antonio bus stop 11 years ago.

House Republicans have elected a woman to a top leadership post after the GOP suffered double-digit losses among female voters in last week's election.

The Senate failed again to advance legislation to protect the U.S. electrical grid and other critical industries from cyberattack, setting the stage for President Barack Obama to sign an executive order to improve the country's digital defenses.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has written a fundraising letter saying his son George P. Bush "is considering" running for Texas Land Commissioner.

A judge has postponed a court hearing for the man charged in the Colorado movie theater killings after his attorneys said he was taken to a hospital for unspecified reasons.

There's a backlash to the backlash over the cancellation of a speaker at a major Jewish book festival in Atlanta.

A former Texas licensing official tells jurors a woman convicted of murder after a fire at her home day care killed four children lied about having a juvenile conviction, a criminal history that would have prevented her from getting a child care license.

A jury's verdict that Chicago Police Department fostered a code of silence to protect rogue officers has led to demands for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his hand-picked police chief to take action.

A U.S. official says the Army has suspended the security clearance of the woman who had an affair with CIA Director David Petraeus, triggering his resignation.

An attorney for the owner of a house believed to be at the center of a deadly Indianapolis explosion says the woman's 12-year-old daughter smelled a strange odor off and on for weeks before the blast.

President Barack Obama says he will not agree to any budget deal that extends current tax rates for the wealthiest taxpayers and says their rates should rise to help raise revenue.

Etan's disappearance led to an intensive search and spawned a movement to publicize cases of missing children.

Testimony has resumed in the sentencing of a Texas woman convicted of murder in the death of a child in a fire at her home day care.

A deadly snow storm in Chicago, power out in NYC and a solar eclipse on the other side of the world.

A think-tank with ties to the White House is looking to prevent a raid on health care programs during upcoming budget talks.

A congressional official says House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has told her party caucus she will remain as minority leader in the new session of Congress.

Channing Tatum is People magazine's "sexiest man alive" for 2012.

A Cleveland judge who sentenced a woman to hold an embarrassing sign in public plans to personally supervise the second day of the punishment after being unsatisfied with the woman's demeanor the first day.

Toyota's declines are linked to another product recall. The Japanese carmaker announced a global recall of its Prius and Corolla models from certain years.

If you are married or dating your relationship may have moved to a new level that you didn't even know about.

The Senate has given final congressional approval to a bill expanding protections for federal whistle-blowers.

The woman who lived in the home believed at the center of a deadly Indianapolis explosion doesn't believe the furnace was the source of the blast.

Marcus Brauchli, the executive editor of The Washington Post for the last four years, is stepping down at the end of the year and will be replaced by Marty Baron, editor of The Boston Globe.

The man who accused Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of having sex with him when he was a teen now says it isn't so.