Updated: 7:41 AM Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China say the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice.
Updated: 7:40 AM A British couple are facing long jail terms when they're sentenced today for starting a fire that killed six of their children, in what prosecutors say was an attention-grabbing stunt gone tragically wrong.
Posted: 5:50 AM The West Point Cemetery has taken in graduates of the Long Gray Line from the age of the cavalry charge to the dawn of drone strikes.
Updated: 7:41 AM The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking applications for $3 million worth of health care projects for communities of up to 50,000 people in the eight-state Delta region.
Updated: 7:39 AM The Department of Vehicle Regulation's Special Plate Committee has approved the license plate design "Fighting Lung Cancer" by Big Daddy's Race for Time Inc., a lung cancer foundation.
Posted: 11:42 PM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday.
Posted: 2:07 PM Like a quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway, northeastern forests are changing as pipelines and other structures crisscross them amid the region's gas drilling boom.
Posted: 11:17 AM Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the Lake Erie shoreline in the Buffalo area, but state Department of Environmental Conservation officials say it's nothing to be alarmed about.
Updated: 12:35 PM Gov. Susana Martinez is scheduled to visit the southern New Mexico city of Truth or Consequences on Tuesday afternoon to sign a bill that will shield commercial space travel companies from some damage lawsuits.
Posted: 10:55 AM A lawsuit accuses Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington of trashing a New York City loft that she leased from a documentary filmmaker.
Posted: 10:23 AM A regional shooting competition that would have brought hundreds of people to Montrose has become the latest casualty of new Colorado gun laws set to kick in just a few days before the competition.
Posted: 10:18 AM U.S. factories rose sharply in February from January, helped by a surge in demand for volatile aircraft. The gain offset a drop in orders that signal business investment.
Posted: 10:10 AM Crews from the Kentucky Division of Waste Management have taken soil samples at a former toxic waste dump in Louisville to check for contaminants.
Posted: 10:08 AM A regional shooting competition that would have brought hundreds of people to Montrose has become the latest casualty of new Colorado gun laws set to kick in just a few days before the competition.
Updated: 5:00 PM A researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin is charged with espionage after prosecutors say he stole details of a cancer-fighting compound that he wanted to share with China.
Posted: 8:34 AM Chrysler says its U.S. sales rose 5 percent last month from a year ago.
Posted: 8:30 AM The FBI says it has arrested New York state Sen. Malcolm Smith and a New York City councilman as part of a public corruption probe.
Posted: 8:29 AM Former ambassadors of Washington and Moscow say the United States and Russia should leave behind their differences and focus on common interests and challenges such as Syria.
Posted: 7:46 AM President Obama is announcing a new investment into research to map the human brain in hopes of unlocking some of its mysteries.
Posted: 7:33 AM The U.N. chief says he fears North Korea is on a collision course with other nations that could lead to war.
Updated: 7:35 AM Regulators in Google's largest European markets are taking joint action to try and force the company to overhaul its privacy policy.
Posted: 7:29 AM The remains of a Paducah soldier, who disappeared during World War II, are being sent home.
Updated: 7:14 AM North Korea has vowed to restart mothballed facilities at its main Nyongbyon nuclear complex which were closed in 2007 as part of an international nuclear disarmament deal.
Updated: 7:42 AM Investigators are sifting through newly uncovered debris from the World Trade Center for the first time in three years, hoping more victims might be identified after tens of millions have been spent on the painstaking identification process.
Updated: 7:36 AM A man who has spent more than four decades in prison for starting a Tucson hotel fire that killed 29 people is expected to be released as part of a deal with prosecutors.
