Posted: 1:03 PM Federal officials say the Boston Marathon bombing suspect's medical condition has improved.

Posted: 1:00 PM An Illinois teenager charged with trying to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Syria via a sham FBI website has appeared at a detention hearing in Chicago.

Updated: 8:12 AM An analysis of more than 33,000 cases of foodborne illness shows that ground beef and chicken have caused more hospitalizations than other meats.

Updated: 8:12 AM Aereo, the television-over-the-Internet service that is threatening the broadcast and cable TV industries, is expanding to Boston on May 15.

Updated: 12:39 PM Two senators are urging the Obama administration to postpone the furloughing of air traffic controllers, saying the turmoil caused by reduced staffing raises economic and security concerns as well as inconveniencing thousands of travelers.

Posted: 11:20 AM Two U.S. officials say slain Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda in the run-up to last week's marathon attacks that killed three people and wounded 180.

Posted: 11:04 AM Millions of gallons of raw sewage are pouring into the Mississippi River from a St. Louis wastewater treatment plant where two of three pumps have failed.

Posted: 11:02 AM The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a longtime resident of the United States from Jamaica who was deported from the United States over possession of a small amount of marijuana.

Posted: 10:54 AM A U.S. military spokesman says 84 prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike.

Updated: 10:57 AM A pharmacy that makes specialty medications is recalling nearly 100 compounded drugs after federal regulators found potential safety problems during an inspection.

Updated: 8:08 PM Kentucky State Police have arrested a convicted felon after an investigation led them to find an indoor grow operation and much more at his home on Sprout Springs Road in Stanton.

Posted: 9:15 AM Officials say a contractor at Los Angeles International Airport accidentally made flight-status signs read "Emergency Leave the Terminal."

Posted: 9:12 AM Police have arrested two suspected members of al-Qaida's North African branch in Spain, one of whom Spanish authorities alleged praised the Boston Marathon bombings, but neither of whom was known to possess any explosives or be planning any attack.

Posted: 9:05 AM The Jefferson County Board of Education has voted in favor of a resolution calling for an increase in the dropout age.

Updated: 7:41 AM Federal officials say they're delaying a policy that would allow passengers to carry small knives, bats and other sports equipment onto airliners.

Updated: 7:42 AM The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand of Islam but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating and charging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with crimes that could bring the death penalty.

Posted: 5:44 PM Police in Canada say two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train.

Posted: 4:04 PM The federal government is suing a now-defunct Texas company on behalf of 32 mentally disabled men who allegedly faced abuse and unsafe living conditions while employed as contract workers.

Posted: 3:28 PM Investigators in a Boston suburb are looking into whether there are links between a suspect in last week's Boston Marathon bombing and an unsolved 2011 slaying.

Posted: 3:25 PM Police say a man killed his live-in girlfriend at an apartment complex south of Seattle then fatally shot three men, including one who had phoned 911 to report hearing gunfire.

Posted: 3:21 PM Junot Diaz and Louise Erdrich are among the finalists for a literary prize chosen by the American Library Association.

Posted: 2:18 PM The White House says President Barack Obama supports a bill to give states more authority to collect sales tax from Internet retailers.

Updated: 4:08 PM Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill - a crime that carries a possible death sentence.

Posted: 2:01 PM Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says he believes the federal justice system is "fully capable of prosecuting" a 19-year-old man suspected of detonating deadly bombs at the Boston Marathon.

Updated: 1:13 PM Mourners are lining up outside a church in Medford, Mass., for a funeral for one of the Boston Marathon bombing victims.