Cruise Line Says Norovirus Outbreak Has Subsided
Updated: 4:02 PM Over 200 people were sickened aboard the Queen Mary 2 during 12-day Caribbean Voyage
Updated: 4:02 PM Over 200 people were sickened aboard the Queen Mary 2 during 12-day Caribbean Voyage
Updated: 4:03 PM House adjourned without funding aid package for states recovering from Hurricane Sandy
Posted: 2:17 PM The State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is speaking with staff and reviewing paperwork while she continues to recover from a blood clot in her head.
Posted: 2:08 PM The storms that recently covered parts of the U.S. with snow won't be enough to ease the nation's drought.
Posted: 12:56 PM Federal investigators say Exxon Mobil Corp.'s delayed response to a pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone River made the spill far worse than it otherwise would have been.
Posted: 10:55 AM Officials in Putnam County, N.Y., say they'll refuse a newspaper's request to release the names and addresses of residents with pistol permits.
Posted: 10:53 AM Pennsylvania's governor says he intends to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA in an effort to overturn what he said were "harsh penalties" against Penn State because of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Posted: 10:00 AM Congress has approved legislation that would expand the State Department's rewards for justice program to target the world's most serious human rights abusers, with African warlord Joseph Kony a top target.
Posted: 9:52 AM Authorities believe a plane was taken by teenagers on a joyride before it crashed in Alabama, killing all three people aboard.
Updated: 11:01 AM President Barack Obama is calling for House Republicans to vote Wednesday on Hurricane Sandy aid "without delay for our fellow Americans."
Posted: 9:35 AM An Iranian navy commander claims Iran captured two small U.S. drones in past missions in addition to at least four others reported earlier.
Posted: 9:19 AM President Barack Obama is back in Hawaii for vacation after a tense, end-of-the-new-year standoff with Congress over the fiscal cliff.
Posted: 9:11 AM An emergency deal reached after weeks of rancorous negotiations will keep the U.S. from driving off the so-called fiscal cliff, but higher taxes and continued political bickering in Washington threaten to shake the fragile U.S. economy well into 2013.
Updated: 2:09 PM The children who escaped last month's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have been welcomed with their parents at a school in a neighboring town that was overhauled specially for them.
Posted: 8:59 AM New United Nations figures suggest at least 60,000 people have died in Syria's 22-month conflict.
Posted: 8:54 AM Indian lawmakers facing sexual assault charges against women could be suspended from office if the country's top court rules in favor of a petition submitted following a gang-rape and murder that shocked the country.
Updated: 9:04 AM Stocks are opening sharply higher on Wall Street after lawmakers averted sweeping cuts in government spending and with a last-minute budget deal.
Updated: 9:04 AM The price of oil jumped by over a dollar on Wednesday, to above $93 a barrel, after U.S. lawmakers passed legislation to avoid a "fiscal cliff" that could have pushed the world's biggest economy into recession.
Posted: 8:35 AM Israel's army has ordered dozens of Palestinian Bedouins to leave their communities in a remote West Bank area while it conducts military exercises there.
Updated: 10:49 AM Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the Colorado theater shooting case say they're ready for a crucial hearing next week.
Posted: 7:14 PM Even if U.S. lawmakers avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, higher taxes and brinksmanship in Washington are likely to continue damaging the fragile economy well into 2013.
Posted: 4:02 PM Irving Pinsky withdrew the lawsuit but says he might refile.
Posted: 3:53 PM The Republican governor has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday in State College to announce the filing in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg.
Posted: 3:35 PM A crush of people has killed at least 61 party-goers — most of them children — following New Year’s eve celebrations in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast.
Posted: 3:29 PM Instead of returning to the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., they will be going to the building that used to be the Chalk Hill Middle School in Monroe, about six miles away.
