Posted: 5:27 PM Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo" led contenders Tuesday with 11 nominations, among them best-picture and the latest directing honor for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Posted: 5:20 PM Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich's fight for Florida and the states beyond stayed at a high boil Tuesday as Romney released tax returns showing annual income topping $20 million - including a now-closed Swiss bank account - and Gingrich insisted his high-paid consulting work for a mortgage giant that contributed to the housing crisis didn't include lobbying.

Posted: 5:16 PM President Barack Obama is promising the nation an economy that gives a shot to everyone and not just the rich, using Tuesday night's State of the Union address to draw an election-year battle line with Republicans over fairness and the free market.

Posted: 4:27 PM Mitt Romney's $21.7 million income last year put him in the top 0.0025% of earners in the U.S.

Posted: 4:21 PM The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 33 points at 12,676.

Posted: 4:17 PM U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown, the nation's oldest sitting federal judge in history, has died at age 104.

Posted: 10:58 PM Eager to command center stage in a year dominated by Republican infighting, President Barack Obama is polishing a State of the Union address that will go to the heart of Americans' economic anxiety and try to sway voters to give him four more years.

Posted: 10:52 PM John Levy, the first prominent African-American personal manager in the jazz or pop music field, whose clients included Nancy Wilson and Ramsey Lewis, has died at age 99.

Posted: 10:28 PM The man who shot President Ronald Reagan appeared fixated during a visit to a bookstore last year on a bookshelf bearing titles on presidential assassinations and Reagan's presidency, according to testimony at a court hearing Monday.

Updated: 12:08 AM Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich clashed repeatedly in heated, personal terms Monday night in a crackling campaign debate.

Posted: 8:33 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has criticized rival Newt Gingrich for earning more than $1.6 million in consulting fees from Freddie Mac even though he has as much as $500,000 invested in the U.S.-backed lender and its sister entity, Fannie Mae.

Posted: 8:26 PM Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the son of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and a frequent critic of the Transportation Security Administration, was stopped by security at the Nashville airport Monday.

Posted: 8:01 PM An 80-story skyscraper under construction at ground zero will have to stop at seven stories unless the developer can line up more tenants.

Updated: 8:45 PM On a bittersweet day for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the outgoing congresswoman spent her final hours in Tucson as the city's U.S. representative, finishing the meeting she started on the morning she was shot and bidding farewell to constituents who supported her through a long recovery.

Updated: 7:54 PM Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attend President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday evening in one of her final acts as a member of Congress, her office announced.

Posted: 4:32 PM The Dow fell 12 points, or 0.1 percent, to 12,709.

Updated: 12:29 AM A federal judge shot down BP's request to penalize Halliburton for allegedly destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation's worst offshore oil spill.

Posted: 5:12 PM Comedian Stephen Colbert, who says he's running for president of "The United States of South Carolina," is urging voters in Saturday's presidential primary to cast their ballots for former Republican hopeful Herman Cain.

Posted: 4:47 PM The Dow rose 97 points Friday to close at 12,720.

Updated: 2:54 PM Etta James, whose assertive, earthy voice lit up such hits as "The Wallflower" "Something's Got a Hold on Me" and the wedding favorite "At Last," has died, according to her longtime friend and manager, Lupe De Leon. She was 73 and had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2010.

Updated: 10:50 AM In the wake of record-breaking extreme weather in 2011, campaign says it’s essential that T.V. meteorologists “Forecast The Facts“

Posted: 11:07 PM A spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Corrections says a 20-year-old maintenance worker who recently pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera has been found dead of an apparent suicide.

Updated: 10:43 PM The race for the Republican presidential nomination took a turn toward the South Carolina surreal Thursday as Rick Perry dropped out, Newt Gingrich faced stunning allegations from an ex-wife and Mitt Romney struggled to maintain a shaky front-runner's standing.

Posted: 10:25 PM As the food stamp program has become an issue in the Republican presidential primary, with candidates seeking to tie President Barack Obama to the program's record numbers, The Associated Press interviewed recipients across the country and found many who wished that critics would spend some time in their shoes.

Updated: 5:32 PM Five days before a critical vote, senators are abandoning an anti-piracy bill they had supported after an outpouring of online opposition to tinkering with Internet freedoms.