Updated: 12:27 PM The liberal super PAC from Kentucky that incurred the wrath of the Senate Republican leader is an organization of outsiders that has barely raised any funds since it was founded in December to oust U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell from office in 2014.
Posted: 8:40 AM If a purse with $900 is stolen, the victim probably would call the police.
Posted: 6:32 AM The mother of a Newtown, Conn., shooting victim is making a deeply personal plea from the White House for all Americans to take action on gun violence.
Posted: 6:30 AM Pope Francis has named nine cardinals to advise him on running the church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy.
Updated: 6:29 AM The question of how Washington can persuade Beijing to exert real pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's unpredictable regime is front and center as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Chinese leaders today.
Posted: 6:25 AM Russia is banning 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for alleged human rights violations.
Posted: 6:22 AM Several states are bracing for a second storm today on the heels of a powerful spring storm that unleashed tornadoes and heaped snow and ice on the Midwest. The first storm killed three people.
Posted: 6:20 AM Federal mortgage payment relief has been extended up to one year for more than 200,000 homeowners whose houses were damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
Posted: 6:19 AM President Barack Obama's recently released budget proposes raising Medicare premiums for individual retirees making more than $85,000 and couples making more than $170,000.
Posted: 6:17 AM A 33-year-old West Hollywood man who felt sickened by bacterial meningitis earlier this week has been declared brain dead amid warnings to sexually active men about the deadly strain of illness.
Posted: 6:15 AM Two cruise ships have rescued migrant rafters off the Florida Keys.
Posted: 6:14 AM A suburban Atlanta police officer has been hospitalized after being shot during a traffic stop and the suspect was fatally shot by police after a pursuit through north Fulton County.
Posted: 6:09 AM Beijing has reported its first confirmed case of the latest strain of bird flu virus, which has killed 11 and sickened 32 in eastern China.
Updated: 11:59 PM The National Weather Service has confirmed that a powerful spring storm system spawned 12 tornadoes in six states in recent days.
Posted: 11:51 PM A suburban Atlanta police officer has been hospitalized after being shot during a traffic stop and the suspect was fatally shot by police after a pursuit through north Fulton County.
Posted: 11:37 PM Carnival Corp. is indicating it will not reimburse the U.S. government for hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to rescue its disabled cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico.
Updated: 3:50 PM A liberal political group is using an al-Qaeda recruitment video in a TV ad attacking Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on his pro-gun stance.
Updated: 3:17 PM Comedian Jonathan Winters, whose breakneck improvisations inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, has died at age 87.
Updated: 1:25 PM The attorney for the director of a liberal Kentucky political fundraising group says his client is a cooperating witness in an FBI investigation into a secret recording of a campaign meeting held by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Posted: 10:27 AM An airfield lighting outage has forced the shutdown of more than half of the runways at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, delaying flights at one of the world's busiest airports.
Posted: 10:25 AM Chinese health authorities have reported another bird flu death and two new cases of infection.
Posted: 9:04 AM The mother of Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman has written a letter to the public that criticizes the justice system for her son's arrest in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Posted: 8:59 AM The independent group backing President Barack Obama's policy agenda raised a modest $4.8 million in the first quarter of 2013.
Posted: 8:52 AM A southwest Ohio day care worker has been charged with assault for allegedly biting a 5-year-old boy to teach him not to bite others.
Updated: 8:34 AM The BBC is in a bind after opponents of Margaret Thatcher pushed the song "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" to the top of the British charts in a posthumous protest over her divisive policies.
