A coroner's official says Whitney Houston's body has been transported from the Beverly Hills hotel where the singer died and is awaiting an autopsy.

President Barack Obama is pressing for investments in infrastructure while relying on tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to claim progress on the federal deficit.

Oakland police say a woman and a man were taken into custody after about 50 protesters peacefully marched from a plaza.

The Powerball multi-state lottery says a Rhode Island player has won $336.4 million.

Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster says Mitt Romney has won the state's caucuses by a slim margin, giving him a boost following losses in three other contests in the past week.

Federal authorities say they've stepped up efforts in recent years to stem the flow of illicit cash pouring across the southwestern border.

The family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell is thanking police, social workers, teachers and everyone who cared about her two sons, nearly a week after their father killed them in a gas-fueled blaze.

Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have asked a court to dismiss their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top officials as defendants.

Guided by information from a death row inmate, Northern California authorities plan to focus on an abandoned well in their search for possible victims of the notorious "Speed Freak Killers," in the 1980's.

A Marine based out of Camp Pendleton in Southern California has been awarded the Silver Star for courageous service in the war-torn country.

President Barack Obama is taking steps to defuse a controversy that surged to the forefront of the presidential campaign.

The government has disclosed new details about the relationship between a Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane and a man who is described as his mentor.

The federal government's lead lawyer in an upcoming trial over fault in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is urging judges to make sensitive business documents and testimony public.

A man from Uzbekistan has pleaded guilty to terror-related charges in a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama.

Federal regulators say an ammonia leak that caused an emergency alert at Southern California's San Onofre nuclear plant was caused by employees who failed to recognize degraded equipment and fix it.

The Navy has named a ship for Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head received in January 2011.

The Pennsylvania judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse case has set a tentative trial date of May 14th. 

State police say a driver was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes in Louisiana and crashed head-on with another vehicle with four people inside. 

A county coroner says he examined the body of late Philadelphia Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua at the request of prosecutors because of the odd timing of his death a day after he was found competent to testify at a high-profile church sex abuse trial.

Ulugbek Kodirov, an Uzbekistan national charged with supporting terrorism in a plot to kill President Barack Obama, will enter his plea in a federal court in Alabama.

The trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend is nearing the end of its first week.

Miramonte Elementary School students are back in class after the entire 120-member staff was replaced in an unprecedented move by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The father of an admitted terrorist is scheduled to be sentenced after his conviction on charges he destroyed evidence and lied to investigators to cover up his son's plot to attack the New York City subways in 2009.

A federal appeals court has denied a request to reconsider a lawsuit challenging a Texas law that requires doctors to perform a sonogram before an abortion.

Fire crews arrived to find dozens of animals, including 18 rats, 12 rabbits, a hedgehog and a chinchilla, inside the house. 

Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant. 

President Barack Obama says his decision to free 10 states from the No Child Left Behind education law will give the flexibility they need to set high standards for students and hold schools accountable.

The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.

Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars.

Federal weather forecasters say the La Nina weather phenomenon that contributed to the southwestern U.S. drought is winding down.

49 U.S. states have agreed to a deal with the nation's biggest mortgage lenders that will be worth $25 billion.

The U.S. Postal Service says it was hurt by declining mail volume and mounting costs for future retiree health benefits.

The number of people seeking unemployment aid fell in an encouraging sign of continued improvement in the job market.

Lance Armstrong is relieved the federal investigation into doping allegations against him has ended and says he always stayed confident he would not be charged.

More than a million popular coffee makers are being recalled after dozens of reports of the brewers spraying hot liquid, coffee grounds or tea leaves onto people.

The Mississippi Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether ex-Gov. Haley Barbour legally pardoned 10 current and former inmates.

Prices at the supermarket likely will rise for the next two years because of the smallest cattle herd in 60 years.

The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications that have never before faced generic competition in the U.S.

Teaching about contraception and homosexuality would be off-limits in Utah public school classrooms under a state lawmaker's proposal.

Pentagon rules are catching up a bit with reality after a decade when women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The stage is set for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed.

A federal judge has convicted a Chinese-born American of stealing trade secrets but acquitted him of corporate espionage at a trial in Chicago that highlighted fears about China pilfering U.S. company secrets.

A new report finds that fatal shark attacks worldwide last year reach their highest level in two decades, though there were none in the U.S.

Authorities say a father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged with killing the couple.

Jerry Sandusky wants jurors in his child sex-abuse trial to be chosen from the community where he lives and is suggesting a trial delay may be the best way to address the intense publicity generated by the case.

More than half the doctors in a new survey admit they have described a patient's prognosis in a way they knew was too rosy.

The head of the Transportation Security Administration says more travelers around the country will be eligible to enroll in a test program so that they can get through airport security with less hassle by the end of this year.

Rick Santorum got a surprising sweep of Tuesday night's nominating contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.

House Speaker John Boehner says if President Barack Obama doesn't reverse a new policy requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with access to free birth control, the Congress will.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is beginning a plan to waive debts for thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters.