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Obama tells Naval Academy grads sex assault cases threaten trust in nation's military

 May 25, 2013; Updated: 12:19 am

Annapolis, Md. - With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and...

Bridge collapse points to bigger problems

 May 25, 2013; Updated: 12:53 am

Washington - The collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Washington state brings new attention to the limits of the country's infrastructure, especially older structures that were designed with little room for error...

Organizers: Protests in 250 cities in 'March Against Monsanto'

 May 25, 2013; Updated: 2:47 pm

"March Against Monsanto" protesters say they want to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Marches are planned for more than 250 cities around the globe, according to organizers.

After gay vote, Scouts face more turmoil

 May 25, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

The Boy Scouts of America will get no reprieve from controversy after a contentious vote to accept openly gay boys as Scouts.

Dismayed conservatives are already looking at alternative youth groups as they predict a mass exodus from the BSA.

Hitting the campaign trail

 May 24, 2013; Updated: 11:59 pm

New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner poses for a photo with straphangers as he rides the subway to a radio appearance on the first day of his campaign Thursday in New York. Weiner, who ran for mayor in 2005 and nearly did in 2009, is getting...

Boy Scouts vote to accept gay kids but not adults

 May 24, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Grapevine, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members...

House approves student-loan bill

 May 24, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Washington - The House approved a Republican proposal Thursday to allow interest rates on federal student loans to rise or fall from year to year with the government's cost of borrowing, ending a system in which rates are fixed by...

I-5 bridge collapse survivor: 'You hold on'

 May 24, 2013; Updated: 6:16 am

Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust."

New England AGs petition NRC about improving nuclear waste rules

 May 24, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Montpelier, Vt. - Attorneys general in Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut announced Thursday they are petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a more thorough environmental review of storage of highly radioactive...

House subcommittee rejects any notion of BRAC in budget

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 11:57 pm

The Readiness Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee has not only rejected the administration's request for base closings in 2015, it expressly forbade a new round.

Obama defends drone strikes but says no cure-all

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 2:59 pm

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are...

Picking up the pieces

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 11:49 pm

Susan Kates salvages items from a friend's tornado-ravaged home Wednesday in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses.

Man linked to Boston bomb suspects is killed

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

A Chechen man linked to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed early Wednesday in an unusual encounter with the FBI and other law enforcement officers inside his apartment in Orlando.

According to federal law...

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 6:23 pm

The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts. Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal.

Arias jury deadlocked but must continue

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 3:30 pm

2 infants among 10 kids killed in Oklahoma tornado

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 12:12 pm

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says two infants are among 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week.
The office announced...

Memorial Day preparations

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 11:41 pm

Amanda Hodgins, of Saginaw, Mich., a member of the American Legion Post 22, places American flags on the graves of veterans in the military section of Forest Lawn Cemetery Tuesday in Saginaw. Each year, volunteers from the post decorate veterans'...

Immigration overhaul advances

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 11:29 pm

Washington - A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark...

Officials: Man questioned about Boston bombing lunged at FBI agent with knife

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 1:12 pm

A man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials said Wednesday.

Okla. mayor wants to require tornado shelters

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 10:50 am

The mayor of the Oklahoma City suburb battered by a monstrous tornado says he is pushing to require safe-room shelters in all new homes.

24 dead in rare EF5 twister

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 11:29 pm

Moore, Okla. - Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives,...

Commuter rail service to returning to normal

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 11:40 pm

New Haven - After a nearly four-hour commute Tuesday morning, Orlando Cordero was thrilled to hear train service was returning to normal as workers were finishing repair to tracks damaged by last week's train collision in...

Oklahoma teachers credited with saving students

 May 22, 2013; Updated: 11:57 pm

Moore, Okla. - The principal's voice came over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for their parents to pick them up.

More White House aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

 May 21, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Washington - White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman...

Twister season starts late, but starts nonetheless

 May 21, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Tulsa, Okla. - Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister that carved a path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, belie what had been a...

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