Updated: 8:12 AM Authorities at Quantico Marine base in Virginia say a Marine suspected of shooting to death a male and female colleague before killing himself was believed to have been a staff member at the officer candidate school.
Posted: 11:40 PM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday.
Posted: 3:01 PM Three years, two elections, and one Supreme Court decision after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, its promise of health care for the uninsured may be delayed or undercut in much of the country because of entrenched opposition from many Republican state leaders.
Posted: 8:44 AM The number of people seeking unemployment aid barely changed last week and the average over the past month fell to a fresh five-year low. A decline in layoffs is helping strengthen the job market.
Posted: 8:40 AM President Barack Obama says he's told Israel's leaders the U.S. does not consider settlement activity in the West Bank to be constructive or appropriate.
Updated: 8:36 AM An upstate New York man who spent 10 months as a prisoner of war during World War II has finally received medals he earned for his service nearly 70 years ago.
Updated: 9:48 AM The parents of one of the 20 first-graders killed in the Newtown, Conn., school massacre say they met with the gunman's father for over an hour in an effort bring some closure to the tragedy.
Posted: 8:29 AM Authorities say two heavily armed Oklahoma teens have been killed while apparently trying to break into a North Texas home.
Posted: 8:01 AM Thanks to conservation efforts and the rise of e-books, the publishing industry is creating a leaner and cleaner paper trail.
Updated: 7:37 AM Federal meat inspectors would be spared furloughs, but more than 100 smaller air traffic facilities throughout the country could still be closed.
Updated: 7:38 AM Authorities in Texas and several other states are beginning to re-examine old arson cases in which defendants may have been convicted with questionable scientific evidence.
Updated: 7:37 AM As they struggle to get ahead, many low-wage workers are not taking advantage of job training or educational programs that could help them make the leap to a better-paying job.
Updated: 7:40 AM A mortar shell explosion Monday at an Army depot in Hawthorne, Nev., killed seven Marines and injured eight other servicemen.
Posted: 11:46 PM The Senate has passed a huge spending bill to keep the government open through the end of September, preventing a government shutdown but leaving in place automatic spending cuts that will mean job furloughs for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
Updated: 7:41 AM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday.
Updated: 6:18 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Democratic Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes still isn't saying whether she's seriously considering a U.S. Senate bid.
Posted: 3:57 PM Police in northern Indiana say officers have gathered around a home where a man suspected of killing a bus passenger earlier in the day is holding a child hostage.
Posted: 11:48 AM The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will honor the community of Newtown and the memory of those killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School when the teams play opening day April 1 at Yankee Stadium.
Updated: 11:42 AM Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed bills placing new restrictions on firearms exactly eight months after dozens of people were shot in a movie theater in suburban Denver.
Updated: 9:54 AM General Motors is recalling nearly 27,000 Buicks and Cadillacs in the U.S. to fix a problem with the automatic transmissions.
Posted: 10:45 AM President Barack Obama is picking Indiana to win the NCAA title.
Posted: 8:51 AM President Barack Obama has arrived in Israel, his first trip to the nation as president.
Updated: 11:52 PM President Barack Obama is en route to Israel.
Updated: 3:29 AM A Veterans of Foreign Wars official says an eighth Marine has died after a mortar shell explosion during mountain warfare training in Nevada's high desert.
Updated: 1:11 PM The Marine Corps says seven Marines have been killed in a training accident.
