Posted: 9:04 AM Organizers say they are expecting thousands of participants for the rally on the National Mall.

Posted: 9:00 AM The Interior Ministry said the victims were construction workers who were living in the building at the time.

Updated: 10:12 AM Violence erupted in Port Said after a judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection with a Feb. 1 soccer melee that killed 74 fans of the Cairo-based Al-Ahly team.

Posted: 8:55 AM The website of the commission, an independent agency of the judicial branch, was taken over early Saturday.

Posted: 8:21 PM The principal at Daly Elementary School in Inkster was tipped by a phone call before school started on Friday morning.

Posted: 3:41 PM Mary Kay Beckman, 50, claims in a lawsuit filed earlier this month that she joined the website looking for a "healthy loving relationship," but instead was nearly killed.

Posted: 11:54 AM A U.S. research institute says recent satellite photos show North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test.

Posted: 11:20 AM Exxon has once again surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company after the iPhone and iPad maker saw its stock price falter.

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Posted: 10:39 AM A federal appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel.

Posted: 9:14 AM Sales of new U.S. homes cooled off in December compared with November, but sales for the entire year were the best since 2009.

Posted: 9:17 AM Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation to ban assault weapons but the measure faces long odds even after last month's mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

Posted: 9:10 AM President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of state says it's imperative for the United States get its fiscal house in order to lead worldwide.

Updated: 3:26 PM Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war.

Posted: 2:16 PM As she testifies to a pair of Congressional panels today about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya in September, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been hearing the anger of Republicans who aren't satisfied with steps taken by the Obama administration before and after the attack.

Posted: 12:41 PM The NCAA is revealing that it has found "an issue of improper conduct" within its own enforcement program during its investigation into the compliance practices of Miami's athletic department.

Updated: 12:34 PM The House has passed a bill to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid a first avoid default for at least four months, defusing a crisis looming next month and setting the stage for a springtime debate over taxes, spending and the deficit.

Posted: 11:14 AM A federal appeals court has ruled that an Indiana law banning registered sex offenders from accessing Facebook and other social networking sites is unconstitutional.

Posted: 9:31 AM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress Wednesday that she is committed to improving security at U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide after the Sept. 11 raid on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya.

Posted: 9:24 AM The Air Force's top officer says the service recorded an "appalling" number of reports of sexual assault last year even as it worked to curb misconduct in the wake of a sex scandal at its training headquarters in Texas.

Posted: 8:57 AM An Iraqi official says a suicide bomber has blown himself up among mourners at a Shiite funeral in northern Iraq, killing at least 14 people.

Posted: 5:16 PM General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan was cleared of sending potentially inappropriate emails sent to a woman linked to Petraeus scandal

Posted: 2:41 PM A federal judge is allowing the New York Police Department to temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while the city appeals her decision.

Posted: 2:33 PM The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution condemning North Korea's rocket launch in December and is imposing new sanctions on Pyongyang's space agency.

Posted: 11:44 AM The woman whose photo was used as the "face" of the Twitter account of Manti Te'o's supposed girlfriend says the man allegedly behind the hoax confessed and apologized to her.