Updated: 9:44 AM A doctor has testified that a Texas mother who glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall also beat the toddler so badly that she suffered significant brain trauma and bleeding inside her skull.
Posted: 5:36 PM The House Intelligence Committee is warning that China's two leading technology firms pose a major security threat to the United States.
Updated: 5:30 PM The head of the Border Patrol agents union says the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire.
Updated: 3:00 PM The pharmacy that distributed a steroid linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis has issued a voluntary recall of all of its products.
Updated: 2:49 PM Pres. Obama is coming off of his strongest fundraising month of the year, but republicans are looking to downplay the fundraising success.
Posted: 3:10 PM A police officer at the University of South Alabama has fatally shot a naked student whom authorities said repeatedly charged the officer.
Updated: 2:37 PM A partially-blind extremist cleric from Egypt and four other terrorism suspects have appeared in court in New York City and Connecticut, hours after they were brought to the United States from England to face trial.
Updated: 1:21 PM Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson announced Saturday that the faith will lower its minimum age requirement for missionaries from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women.
Posted: 4:29 PM The FBI says a preliminary investigation has found friendly fire is likely to blame in the shootings of two border agents along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Posted: 3:22 PM Authorities say at least seven crashes involving 46 vehicles on Interstate 75 are expected to block southbound traffic for several hours heading toward southwest Florida.
Updated: 11:11 AM The sister of a Connecticut man who fatally shot his teenage son last week frantically called police to report someone was shot after she called her brother for help with someone trying to break into her house.
Posted: 9:28 AM During a nearly 25-minute call to 911, a 17-year-old calmly describes shooting his mother and younger sister to death in their North Texas home.
Updated: 8:55 AM The Food and Drug Administration says it has found salmonella in a New Mexico plant that produces nut butters for national retailer Trader Joe's and several other grocery chains. The Trader Joe's peanut butter is now linked to 35 salmonella illnesses in 19 states.
Posted: 2:32 PM A two-year Drug Enforcement Administration initiative called Drug Take-Back Day has taken 2 million pounds of unused, potentially dangerous prescription medications out of circulation.
Updated: 5:12 AM Health officials say they expect to see more cases of a Health officials say they expect to see more cases of a rare meningitis that's killed four of the more than two dozen people it's sickened.
Updated: 10:14 PM Obama and Romney opened their first of three presidential debates Wednesday with disagreements on how the government could help add jobs.
Posted: 10:17 PM The first presidential debate is now in the books. In a contentious, but not overtly hostile affair, President Obama and Mitt Romney traded jabs over how to bring jobs back, and other domestic issue sticking points.