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.
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.
Posted: 4:37 PM After seven years as a couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are finally engaged.
Posted: 11:31 PM The Justice Department and 15 states sued Apple Inc. and major book publishers Wednesday, alleging a conspiracy that raised the price of electronic books
Updated: 5:29 PM The Florida judge overseeing the second-degree murder case involving neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman says she may have a conflict of interest.
Posted: 11:34 PM A rule change that would allow transgender women to participate in the Miss Universe beauty pageant next year.
Posted: 11:30 PM Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn abruptly resigned on Tuesday after the embattled consumer electronics chain launched an internal investigation into his "personal conduct."
Updated: 7:36 AM Rick Santorum is suspending his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, clearing a path for Mitt Romney to become the nominee.
Posted: 5:25 PM Some in the field say they are seeing the beginning of a wave of scientific reports that should strengthen some theories, jettison others and perhaps even herald new drugs.
Posted: 5:20 PM Two Navy pilots ejected from a fighter jet after dumping loads of fuel to avoid a major explosion Friday, sending their unmanned plane careening into a Virginia Beach apartment complex and engulfing several buildings in flames, officials said.
Updated: 11:57 PM President Barack Obama signed bipartisan jobs legislation Thursday that will help small businesses and make it easier for startups to raise capital.
Updated: 11:12 PM U.S. Supreme Court rules jailers may perform invasive strip searches on people arrested even for minor offenses
Posted: 5:15 PM The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is going out of business.
Updated: 10:57 PM Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, winning the Maryland primary in a rout and bidding for victories in Wisconsin and Washington.
