Posted: 12:02 PM President Barack Obama says the U.S. places great importance on its trading relationships with Latin America and will keep working to improve those ties and help the region become more competitive.
Posted: 11:55 AM President Barack Obama is defending the FBI's handling of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation as Republicans ready for oversight hearings on the attack.
Posted: 10:41 AM Legal experts say authorities are placing intense pressure on the widow of one Boston Marathon bomber and three detained friends of the other to cooperate in the ongoing investigation.
Posted: 9:58 AM Some have called NBA player Jason Collins a role model for being the first man in a major U.S. professional sport to come out as gay. In some ways, young athletes and their supporters have helped pave the way for pros like Collins.
Posted: 6:13 PM President Barack Obama says he supports recognizing gay unions in a broad immigration bill pending in Congress but won't say whether he would sign legislation that fails to do so.
Updated: 5:33 PM A death certificate says a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso.
Posted: 4:08 PM Jury deliberations have begun in the trial of Jodi Arias, who is charged in the stabbing and shooting death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona.
Posted: 3:42 PM Police say no crime occurred when a second-grade Colorado teacher taped her students' mouth shut when they wouldn't be quiet.
Posted: 1:32 PM The stock market is surging past new milestones after the government reported a big pickup in hiring at U.S. employers.
Posted: 8:27 AM U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than first thought. The gains trimmed the unemployment rate to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.
Updated: 8:49 AM An overnight fire at the Labor Department's headquarters has shut the building down for most employees.
Updated: 1:54 PM Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of the heavy metal band Slayer, has died. He was 49.
Posted: 6:51 PM Major League Baseball and the players association are donating a combined $100,000 to victims of the Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed at least 14 people and injured about 200.
Posted: 4:50 PM A Manhattan judge on Thursday backed a $55 million settlement in a court battle over the Empire State Building, effectively clearing the way for a plan to let the public buy shares in the famous New York City landmark.
Updated: 4:48 PM The prosecutor in Jodi Arias' murder trial has concluded closing arguments in a case that has dragged on for four months with sensational tales of sex, lies and a bloody killing.
Updated: 11:41 AM Federal health regulators are taking a look at the germ-killing ingredient that's found in an estimated 75 percent of anti-bacterial liquid soaps and body washes sold in the U.S.
Posted: 10:56 AM An Army major and his wife accused in New Jersey of abusing their three foster children are free on $250,000 bail each.
Posted: 8:28 AM The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to seasonally adjusted 324,000, the lowest since January 2008. The drop points to fewer layoffs and possibly more hiring.
Updated: 10:02 PM Experts say they're not sure why parents are reporting more skin and food allergies in their children.
Posted: 9:15 PM YouTube vs. TV? YouTube says the battle - if there ever was one - is over.
Posted: 9:09 PM Authorities say two airplanes have clipped each other while preparing to take off at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport.
Posted: 9:05 PM Two members of a Virginia-based Navy dive unit face military criminal charges of involuntary manslaughter and dereliction of duty in the February drowning deaths of two divers at an Army facility test pond near Baltimore.
Posted: 9:02 PM Police have arrested a man accused of fatally shooting an Alabama woman while she held her 10-day old son.
Posted: 4:52 PM The stock market fell the most in two weeks as the outlook for the economy grew dimmer.
Posted: 4:50 PM A Philadelphia jury has deliberated for its first full day without reaching a verdict in the murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider.
