President Barack Obama will make his first postelection comments Friday about actions needed to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that could plunge the economy back into recession.

U.S. District Judge Larry Burns sentenced 24-year-old Jared Lee Loughner on Thursday for the January 2011 attack that left six people dead and Giffords and others wounded.

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Twitter sent out e-mails to some of its users earlier today prompting them to reset their passwords because of possible security issues with third-party applications.

The man who pleaded guilty in the Arizona shooting rampage is expected to be sentenced for the attack that left six people dead and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others.

McDonald's Corp. says a key sales figure fell in October, marking the first monthly drop in nearly a decade for the world's biggest hamburger chain.

Flying to family and friends for Thanksgiving will be more crowded and more expensive this year.

A U.S. agent who investigated a massacre at two Afghan villages last March says the soldier charged in the killings had taken steroids.

First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people.

A nor'easter is threatening New York and New Jersey with a repeat of the misery Superstorm Sandy brought last week.

A New York City man has pleaded guilty to fatally burning an elderly woman inside the elevator of her apartment building.

An engineering expert says a refrigerator, not a stove, might have caused the fire at a Texas home day care that killed four children and injured three others.

Travelers can expect airports to be busier and planes to be fuller than ever this Thanksgiving. And flights will be costlier.

Voters in Colorado and Washington state have decided to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

Democrats held their narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, grabbing GOP seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning aside Republican challenges in Virginia and Ohio. Republicans were well on the way to retaining control of the House, ensuring that Congress will be divided at the start of President Barack Obama's second term in office.

Taylor Swift says the response to her latest album, "Red," has been "unbelievable."

The pop star gave election pep-talks on three Cleveland radio stations and urged voters to cast ballots Tuesday, calling Ohio "the chosen state."

The Texas Supreme Court has lifted the suspension of a judge shown in a video beating his teenage daughter.

Preliminary results of an exit poll conducted for The Associated Press show that the presidential election hinges once again on the economy.

An Ohio nurse has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison after she unexpectedly pleaded guilty in the malnutrition death of a teen who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died.

Turnout appears to be high in many parts of the country, with long waits at some polling places as voters deliver their Election Day verdict.

The man who was long the prime suspect in a landmark case of a missing New York City boy is about to be released from a Pennsylvania prison where he spent 20 years for molesting other children.

Weather experts say that a new storm that threatens to complicate Hurricane Sandy cleanup efforts on Wednesday now looks like it will be weaker than expected.

The World Trade Center memorial is reopening to the public now that damage from Superstorm Sandy has been taken care of.

Michigan authorities have taken a person of interest into custody in connection with dozens of shootings across four counties that resulted in at least one injury.