Posted: 11:35 AM Whether it means opening school track meets to a deaf child or developing a new lunch menu with safe alternatives for students with food allergies, recent Obama administration decisions could significantly affect Americans with disabilities.
Posted: 11:00 AM Few sights capture New York's beauty like the grand old apartment buildings that ring Central Park.
Posted: 10:54 AM Some residents of a New Jersey town will soon be asked to turn over their toenails.
Posted: 10:13 AM Pope Francis is being hailed as the "first Latino pope." He's a native Spanish speaker born and raised in the South American nation of Argentina. But for some Latinos in the United States, there's a catch: The pope's parents were born in Italy.
Posted: 10:07 AM Pope Francis is celebrating Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, which is filled with thousands of people waving olive branches and palm fronds.
Posted: 8:24 AM U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged Iraq's leaders on an unannounced visit to Baghdad to halt Iranian overflights of weapons and fighters heading to Syria and to overcome sectarian differences that still threaten Iraqi stability 10 years after the American-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.
Posted: 8:16 AM A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It was the 13th drawing held in the days since a Virginia man won a $217 million jackpot Feb. 6.
Posted: 9:18 AM People across the country are hoping to pick the six winning Powerball numbers drawn Saturday night - and the $320 million jackpot that comes with them.
Updated: 7:37 PM The Pentagon says the U.S. has reached an agreement with the Afghanistan government to transfer the Parwan Detention Facility to Afghan control.
Posted: 3:06 PM A spring snowstorm has delayed flights at Denver International Airport and closed several roads as it moves eastward, carrying the possibility of more than a foot of snow in some places.
Posted: 2:18 PM A New York City man whose murder conviction was overturned after 23 years in prison has suffered a heart attack on his second day of freedom.
Updated: 12:56 PM Attorney General Eric Holder says he has averted daily furloughs of 3,570 federal prison staffers around the country, staving off what would have been a serious threat to the lives and safety of staff, inmates and the public.
Posted: 10:58 AM Denver police say a hit-and-run accident Friday night killed two small children and critically injured a woman as the three crossed a street.
Updated: 3:45 PM The mother of a 13-month-old baby who was shot in the face during an attempted robbery in Georgia is going through a second tragic loss of a child.
Posted: 10:31 AM The Senate has narrowly passed its first budget proposal in four years as majority Democrats went on record favoring almost $1 trillion in tax increases over the coming decade while sheltering domestic programs targeted by House Republicans.
Posted: 10:30 AM In California's Central Valley, a once-dominant crop that has nearly disappeared from the state's farms is making a comeback: sugar beets.
Updated: 5:20 PM With 21 states now banning or severely restricting insurance companies from paying for abortions, Washington state is alone in seriously considering legislation mandating the opposite.
Posted: 7:55 AM Pope Francis has arrived at the papal residence south of Rome for an extraordinary date with his predecessor Benedict XVI, who met him at the helipad and escorted him to his library for a private chat followed by lunch.
Posted: 7:48 AM New Secretary of State John Kerry faces a deadline in a few weeks on a normally routine decision that could have a big impact, this time, on U.S. Cuba relations.
Posted: 7:45 AM The city of Kiev has declared a state of emergency after the Ukrainian capital was paralyzed by an unprecedented snowstorm that has stalled car, railway and air traffic.
Posted: 7:06 AM Politicians in Cyprus are racing to complete an alternative plan to raise the funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away.
Updated: 7:34 PM Advocates of a move to help states collect sales taxes on Internet transactions have won a Senate victory.
Updated: 6:39 AM President Barack Obama is closing his four-day Mideast trip with a trek to Petra, Jordan's fabled ancient city.
Posted: 6:38 AM Police have given the all-clear for an area of the University of Arizona campus that was searched Friday after receiving a report of a gunman.
Updated: 7:35 PM Hundreds of law enforcement officers raided Southern California auto parts shops and other businesses suspected of illegally selling nitrous oxide for use as a recreational drug, in one of the largest such raids to date.
