Updated: 3:31 PM New York's Legislature has passed the nation's toughest gun control law and the first since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

Updated: 12:51 PM Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a new search feature on the world's biggest online social network.

Posted: 9:09 AM Officials of a town near Newtown, Conn., are renaming a local school for a resident killed in the massacre there and hailed as a hero.

Updated: 8:58 AM Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and the nation's largest private employer, is making a pledge to hire every veteran who wants a job.

Posted: 8:42 AM More than three dozen students have spent the night in a hospital after carbon monoxide leaked at their Nashville private school.

Posted: 7:50 PM A Middlesex Superior Court judge found Harvard isn't liable for three New York men who used a student's ID to get into a dorm and fatally shoot Justin Cosby of Cambridge.

Posted: 7:48 PM Nineteen-year-old William Paul was charged with misdemeanor assault on a female by aggressive physical force.

Posted: 7:45 PM Bryan Oliver pleaded not guilty Monday in Kern County Superior Court to two counts of premeditated attempted murder and three counts of assault with a firearm in the attack.

Posted: 4:15 PM The strike will affect about 152,000 New York City public school students.

Posted: 12:43 PM Former President George H.W. Bush has left a Houston hospital where he spent nearly two months recovering from an illness that began with a bronchitis-related cough.

Posted: 12:22 PM Speaker John Boehner says the GOP-controlled House will "do its job" and pass legislation to lift the nation's borrowing cap and keep the government running, but will insist that Democrats accept new spending controls.

Posted: 11:51 AM The Associated Press has learned that suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year.

Posted: 11:14 AM President Barack Obama says he's reviewing a list of proposals from Vice President Joe Biden about how to reduce gun violence and expects to present specifics later this week.

Posted: 11:08 AM A new report shows coroner's officials amended Natalie Wood's death certificate based on unanswered questions about bruises on her upper body.

Posted: 11:05 AM President Barack Obama says Congress' failure to raise the government's borrowing authority would delay payments of benefits to veterans and Social Security recipients.

Posted: 11:01 AM Robin Roberts made a live appearance on " Good Morning America" today, announcing plans to return to the show.

Posted: 10:44 AM The walls have started coming down at a Dallas apartment building where Lee Harvey Oswald lived a few months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Posted: 10:42 AM People familiar with the internal negotiations say New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have a tentative deal to enact the nation's first gun control measure following the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

Posted: 10:34 AM New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is calling for federal gun control reforms.

Posted: 8:40 AM A group in Newtown, Conn., is launching an initiative in response to last month's school shootings to prevent similar tragedies.

Updated: 5:38 PM Japan Airlines officials say jet was undergoing tests Sunday at airport near Tokyo

Posted: 5:11 PM Protestors angered by ban on Americans adopting Russian children

Posted: 9:15 AM Twenty-six-year-old Aaron Swartz hanged himself Friday night in Brooklyn.

Posted: 9:12 AM The crash occurred Saturday morning shortly after their Piper PA-46 plane took off from an airport near Paris, Texas.

Posted: 8:14 PM Oracle says it will soon have a patch to fix a security hole in Java software that prompted warning from Homeland Security