1. A Virginia man is arrested and indicted on charges he planned to bomb Washington subway system, budding with people he believed were al-Qaeda operatives. The FBI says they knew the plan all along, the public never in danger. The 34-year-old is a n...
1. Investigators are conducting tests to determine if a shooting at a Marine Corps recruiting station is connected to recent shootings at the Pentagon and National Marine Corps Museum. The FBI says the same gun was used to shoot at the Pentagon and t...
1. A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake off western Indonesia has triggered a tsunami, killing at least 23 people. More than 160 remain missing. The head of the Health Ministry crisis center says a ten-foot-high wave washed away hundreds of homes in t...
1. President Barack Obama is challenging voters to stick with Democrats, saying Republicans can only hope Americans forget, which party brought them what he calls a lost decade. President closed a four-day campaign swing at a rally in Minneapolis for...
1. There are growing fears the cholera outbreak in Haiti could soon spread to heavily populated urban areas. More than 200 people have died. At least five cases are reported in Port-au-Prince. Officials say the patients likely got sick before travell...
1. A new AP poll of likely voters finds theyre evenly divided on whether President Barack Obama's health care law should be scrubbed or retooled. Among likely voters, 36% said they want to revise the law, 37% want the law repealed, only 15% said they...
1. President Barack Obama is trumpeting his efforts to help women in the workforce. He's turned to rally key Democratic constituencies ahead of the election. Obama says female business owners have particularly benefited from his administration's effo...
Things are bad for Democrats. All signs are pointing to huge Republican gains across the board, from coast to coast, at all levels of government. The poll shows that Republicans are leading on just about every measurement, from handling the economy t...
1. A federal judge has denied a government request to delay her order, halting the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay troops. The judge issued her ruling Tuesday, saying the government had not proven that her order would harm troops or imp...
1. Gunfire at the Pentagon is being described by officials as a random event, not part of a larger plot. Parts of two bullets were found embedded in two windows, shattering but not breaking them. For a while, police closed down the area. 2. That form...
1. President Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail, trying to bolster the Democratic base as the midterm elections approach. A new AP poll finds just half of the people who voted for President Obama two years ago say they will definitely vote th...
1. The woman who became the epitome of the perfect stay-at-home 1950s mom has died. Barbara Billingsley was best known as June Cleaver on the TV show Leave It to Beaver. She was 94. 2. A gas blast at a Chinese mine has killed 21 workers. Sixteen mine...
1. The miners who were trapped deep underground in Chile are starting to go home. All 33 were hospitalized, following their rescue earlier this week. However, doctors say that in general they are all in good health. 2. President Barack Obama is in fu...
1. Aides say President Barack Obama was directly involved in discussions on how to respond to a California judge's ruling that the don't ask, don't tell policy is unconstitutional. The president has long opposed the policy but says he wants Congress...
1. After 69 days underground, it's been a smooth ride to the surface for miners trapped in a Chilean mine. They've been lifted to the surface in a slender cage from nearly a half mile underground, one at a time, in a process that's expected to contin...
