CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Two astronauts are taking a hastily planned spacewalk to find and, possibly, fix a serious leak at the International Space Station.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails.
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration will keep open for now the 149 control towers at small airports that were slated to close as the result of governmentwide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress, the Transportation Department said Friday.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina man was sentenced Friday to four life terms for plotting to behead federal witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for his role in an earlier plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen and their families.
EDGERTON, MO. -- A third inmate who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison was captured late Friday, hours after the other two surrendered at a Missouri home where they had been holed up for hours, authorities said.
TRENTON, N.J. -- Police say an armed man with multiple hostages is barricaded inside a New Jersey home in a standoff that began Friday afternoon.
PETROLIA, Calif. -- Law enforcement officials hunting a man suspected of killing his wife and two young daughters in Northern California have sought help from neighboring agencies.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A taskforce in Newtown is expected to make a recommendation Friday night on what to do with the school where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December, according to a consultant for the town.
OTTAWA, Ohio -- Two teenage brothers who had been reported missing were found dead after authorities were directed to their bodies by a third teen, who pleaded not guilty to a grand theft auto charge and was jailed, officials said.
OTTAWA, Kan. -- A 27-year-old convicted felon was charged Friday in the deaths of a woman and two men whose bodies were found at an eastern Kansas farm home earlier this week, according to a criminal complaint.
DOSWELL, Va. -- Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in central Virginia, infuriating some members of the area's Islamic community who say they weren't consulted and flooring at least one neighbor who said she didn't even know she lived near a burial ground.
WACO, Texas -- A Texas paramedic who helped evacuate people on the night of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West is charged with possessing bomb-making materials including a pipe and chemicals.
NEW YORK -- The silver spire topping One World Trade Center on Friday was fully installed on the building's roof, bringing the structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet.
NEW YORK -- The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of an astonishing $45 million in mere hours sent ripples through the security world, not merely for the size of the operation and ease with which it was carried out, but also for the threat that more such thefts may be in store.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market Inc. said that labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version were reversed at some of its cold food bars in the Northeast.
WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Departments says 149 control towers at small airports that were slated for closure will remain -- open at least through Sept. 30.
OTTAWA, Ohio -- Two teenage brothers reported missing in an Amber Alert were found dead after a third teen found several counties away pointed authorities to the bodies before being taken into custody, officials said.
EVERETT, Wash. -- A jury in Washington state convicted an inmate of first-degree aggravated murder Thursday in the strangulation of a female prison guard.
PALMDALE, Calif. -- Authorities in rural Los Angeles County were warning people to be on the lookout for four pit bulls suspected of killing a 63-year-old jogger Thursday, and they have seized several dogs in a search for those who may have taken part in the attack.
UPDATED -- Josh Knoller, a young professional in New York City, spent years refusing his mother's "Friend Request" on Facebook before, eventually, "caving in." Today they have an agreement: she'll try not to make embarrassing comments, and he can delete them if she does.