Updated: 6:24 AM The Louisville Zoo says its oldest polar bear has died.

Posted: 6:17 AM Thirteen Kentucky families have been recognized for their roles as foster parents to some of the state's most vulnerable children.

Updated: 8:58 PM The Powerball jackpot has jumped to $550 million, a major climb less than a day after the latest drawing produced no winning ticket.

Updated: 4:49 PM Andris Nelsons has been named music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Posted: 12:00 AM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday.

Posted: 11:50 PM Officials report a tornado caused "multiple fatalities" as it tore through two neighborhoods of a North Texas town.

Posted: 7:13 PM President Barack Obama says the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, has submitted his resignation in the aftermath of an investigation that found the agency improperly targeted conservative groups.

Posted: 3:13 PM The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before - to see the new "Star Trek" film.

Updated: 3:58 PM A polar bear cub that was orphaned and rescued by a hunter in Alaska has arrived in western New York, where it will have a playmate at the Buffalo Zoo.

Posted: 2:44 PM There's a new version of the world's most widely used psychiatric manual, and it's already getting lots of criticism.

Posted: 2:38 PM The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that includes legislation aimed at halting controversial fishing restrictions near Cumberland River dams.

Posted: 2:34 PM Families whose children have been among dozens sickened in an Ohio cancer cluster are hoping they have pinpointed a cause for the illnesses.

Posted: 11:43 PM A new lawyer for the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his client will continue to cooperate with investigators.

Posted: 11:41 PM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday.

Updated: 10:48 AM It's not a bust but the "driving boom" -- a six decade-long period of steady increases in driving -- appears to be over.

Posted: 7:49 AM It might not be unusual for schoolchildren to write to the president or vice president. But one Wisconsin boy got an unexpectedly personal response.

Updated: 7:45 AM The Russian security services say they have detained a US diplomat they claim is a CIA agent that they caught red-handed.

Updated: 1:01 PM Angelina Jolie says she's had a preventive double mastectomy. The actress says in an op-ed for today's New York Times that she had the mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that makes it extremely likely she'll get breast cancer.

Posted: 6:57 AM U.S. officials say an envelope containing an unidentified substance was sent to the U.S. Consulate General in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, disrupting operations at the diplomatic building.

Posted: 6:53 AM U.S. military officials say the Defense Department leaders trying to find ways to deal with mandatory budget cuts are poised to trim the number of civilian furlough days from 14 to 11 and allow the military to exempt thousands of additional workers from the unpaid day off requirements.

Posted: 11:49 PM Authorities say a New York police officer who went after a cat stuck in a tree got caught himself and needed a little help getting back down to the ground.

Posted: 11:47 PM Police are identifying a suspect in the shooting of 19 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans.

Posted: 11:43 PM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday.

Posted: 7:36 PM Popular psychologist, columnist, and television and film personality Joyce Brothers has died. She was 85.

Posted: 2:11 PM Barbara Walters is telling viewers she is retiring in another year following a television career that began in 1961.