Updated: 10:29 AM Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to the Middle East on his third trip there in just two weeks in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Updated: 7:44 PM Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting plenty of encouragement to run for president in 2016.

Updated: 7:43 PM President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill. But fighting that battle in court comes with its own set of risks.

Updated: 7:45 PM A California district attorney has reached a $16 million settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. over a safety recall of vehicles that were at risk for unintended acceleration.

Posted: 11:38 PM Court records show a Phoenix man who reportedly got on a bus, rode it to a school and left a gun magazine with 15 rounds of ammunition on the bus was hearing voices and feared for his life.

Posted: 5:23 PM A federal judge has dealt a setback to a group of people who allege that Apple, Google and five other technology companies formed an illegal cartel to hold down wages and reduce the chances of losing their best engineers.

Posted: 5:15 PM Boeing says its latest 787 flight should wrap up testing for its fix of the battery problems that have kept the plane grounded.

Posted: 4:54 PM An Iowa museum says an employee hid a presumed stolen African leopard tortoise in an elevator after finding the 18-pound reptile trapped behind paneling in her enclosure.

Posted: 4:30 PM An Ohio family that failed to return from an airboat excursion in the remote Florida Everglades is back on dry land.

Posted: 4:12 PM Rich Products Corp. is now recalling all of the frozen snack foods produced at its Waycross, Ga., plant.

Posted: 4:06 PM President Barack Obama's plan to change the way the government measures inflation would lead to significantly lower Social Security benefits while increasing taxes, mainly on low-income families.

Posted: 3:28 PM Residents in southeast Missouri felt the rumble of a small earthquake. But an expert says it's nothing to worry about - small quakes strike in the New Madrid seismic zone roughly 200 times a year.

Posted: 11:12 AM Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the rights of women represent "the unfinished business of the 21st century" in the U.S. and around the world.

Posted: 10:51 AM KFC wants to make it easier for people to eat chicken so it's getting rid of the bones.

Updated: 11:57 AM A person familiar with the decision says Tim Pernetti is out as Rutgers athletic director.

Posted: 10:08 AM A New York federal judge has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration must make emergency contraceptives available to women of all ages within 30 days.

Posted: 10:00 AM Three congressmen say a Virginia contractor has been illegally detained and beaten in Afghanistan.

Posted: 9:26 AM Will the future see flocks of sheep baaing beneath the Eiffel Tower and bleating by Notre Dame cathedral?

Updated: 9:04 AM A Connecticut shop that sold a gun to the Newtown school shooter's mother has lost its federal firearms license.

Updated: 9:04 AM Authorities in northern New Jersey are awaiting autopsy results to determine the cause of death for a woman whose body was found with her 3-month-old twins, who were dehydrated but responsive.

Updated: 8:34 AM Authorities have arrested a member of a white supremacist gang linked to the killing Colorado's prisons chief, who was shot answering the door of his home last month.

Updated: 10:28 AM President Barack Obama is proposing cuts to Social Security as an attempt to compromise with Republicans on the budget.

Updated: 8:33 AM Gun enthusiasts fearful of new weapon controls and hearing false rumors of government hoarding are buying bullets practically by the bushel.

Updated: 8:33 AM A slain Texas prosecutor and his wife are to be laid to rest in the small town where he grew up in the central part of the state.

Posted: 7:15 AM The 2006 GMC pickup truck owned by the father of two boys kidnapped from their grandparents' house has been found abandoned in a parking garage in the Tampa Bay area.