Posted: 10:49 PM Police fired tear gas to disperse marchers in Oakland, Calif. And black-clad demonstrators smashed windows in Seattle.

Updated: 9:12 PM President Obama says the deal with Afghanistan allows the U.S. to wind down the war, but still stand by Afghanistan and its people.

Posted: 11:31 PM An Australian billionaire said Monday he'll build a high-tech replica of the Titanic at a Chinese shipyard and its maiden voyage in late 2016 will be from England to New York, just like its namesake planned.

Posted: 11:23 PM "Octomom" Nadya Suleman filed for bankruptcy Monday, saying in a court filing that she has as much as $1 million in debt.

Updated: 9:43 PM State officials will return five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures before committing suicide.

Posted: 5:08 PM On Monday, One World Trade Center, the skyscraper that is being being built to replace the twin towers destroyed on 9/11, extended more than 1,250 feet into the sky, eclipsing the observation deck at the Empire State Building.

Posted: 4:52 PM The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops.

Posted: 4:29 PM Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston Jr., an acclaimed professional poker player who fancied himself the "World's Greatest Gambler," has died.

Posted: 11:16 PM Sen. Marco Rubio outlined his vision Wednesday of a more muscular American foreign policy, the latest salvo in his effort to elevate his profile as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins his search for a running mate.

Posted: 11:12 PM The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion.

Posted: 5:34 PM Governor Dannel P. Malloy quietly signed a new law Wednesday that ends the state's death penalty for future crimes, making Connecticut the 17th state to abolish capital punishment.

Posted: 9:43 PM 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened to him in the interim.

Posted: 9:37 PM Immigration officials have offered to shelve 7.5 percent of deportation cases under a massive review of the backlogged U.S. system aimed at focusing on deporting more criminals, authorities said Tuesday.

Posted: 5:31 PM President Barack Obama went after the college vote Tuesday, pitching cheaper student loans as he courted the one age group where he has a decided advantage over Republican rival Mitt Romney.

Posted: 5:08 PM Apple, the world's most valuable company, is trumping skeptics once again by reporting blow-out iPhone sales.

Updated: 9:56 PM The suspense gone, Mitt Romney glided into five primaries on Tuesday as the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, piling up national convention delegates while commanding the spotlight.

Posted: 4:58 PM A new case of mad cow disease has surfaced in a dairy cow in California, but the animal was not bound for the nation's food supply and posed no danger, the Agriculture Department said Tuesday.

Updated: 9:26 AM Metropolitan Life insurance companies will pay nearly $500 million in benefits on small-value life insurance policies often sold door-to-door in the 1900s under an agreement reached between Florida and 29 other states.

Posted: 11:51 PM Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians' reluctance to take painful action to fix the huge retirement and disability program.

Posted: 4:11 PM The number of Mexican immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has dropped significantly for the first time in decades, a dramatic shift as many illegal workers, already in the U.S. and seeing few job opportunities, return to Mexico.

Updated: 6:29 PM In an unusually low-key turn to a high-profile case, George Zimmerman was released without incident around midnight Sunday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.

Updated: 8:42 AM New dash cam video shows exactly what happened during last weekend's officer-involved shooting in Panama City that left Clifton McKinney, 40 years old, dead.

Updated: 12:09 AM Dick Clark, the television host who helped bring rock `n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," has died. He was 82.

Updated: 8:36 AM The priceless Cristo Portacroce was returned to the Gentili family on April 18th.

Posted: 2:43 PM Best Buy announced plans March 29, 2012 to close 50 U.S. stores as part of a number of key initiatives for this year. Two closures in Florida and two closures in Georgia.