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James Holmes' lawyers offer guilty plea to avoid death penalty for Aurora shootings

Obama swears in Julia Pierson as the first female Secret Service director

Ex-Florida GOP chair Jim Greer sentenced to 18 months in prison

Georgia teens indicted in baby's shooting death

Oklahoma's most powerful earthquake caused by oil production, study says

Mother, aunt of Georgia baby murder suspect arrested for lying

Word of the Day: Slacktivism

Supreme Court on DOMA: Justices question constitutionality

China declares war on Apple, iPhone users line up to fight

There is little the US can do to prevent Israel’s policies from being its undoing

In Colorado, a pot business can signal gentrification

David Petraeus apologizes for affair in his first public speech since leaving the CIA

Man stuck on Disneyland 'It's A Small World' ride listening to theme song awarded $8,000 damages (VIDEO)

Half the rivers in US in 'poor condition for aquatic life,' EPA survey says

George W. Bush the costliest former US President, Congressional Research Service report says

FBI investigating 'suspicious' death of woman on Royal Caribbean cruise

Rare two-headed bull shark found off Florida Keys

NJ police find emaciated 4-year-old boy at home with dead mother

Janet Napolitano doesn't use email... or Twitter, or text

Donors cite fine print, back out of $1m reward for cop killer Christopher Dorner

Obama to name Julia Pierson first female Secret Service head

Indiana Supreme Court upholds the use of private school vouchers

Report: Charles Manson follower tried to smuggle cellphone to killer

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple approves controversial abortion restrictions

T-Mobile USA finally gets the iPhone 5 starting in April

Case-Shiller: Home prices rising at pre-recession rate

Chinese mom buys 2-year-old daughter $6.5m apartment

"Broken cheeseburger" kissed by autistic girl in Facebook photo gone viral

SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down safely in Pacific Ocean

Caterpillar CEO optimistic on Europe

Gay marriage hearings: The US Supreme Court's possible rulings

Supreme Court limits use of drug sniffing dogs in private homes

Gay marriage goes to the Supreme Court

Anthony Lewis, legal journalist, dead at 85

Deadly Venezuelan virus goes missing from Texas lab

North Korea threatens US military bases in Hawaii and Guam

Chatter: North Korea is 'combat ready'

Video shows Mark Kelly, husband of Gabrielle Giffords, ripping dog off stricken sea lion in Laguna (VIDEO)

Tucson gun shop owner cancels rifle sale to Mark Kelly, astronaut husband of Gabrielle Giffords (VIDEO)

Italian court orders retrial for Amanda Knox over ex-housemate's murder (VIDEO)

Australia to shut down Tarin Kowt, base in Afghanistan, before year's end

Melting sea ice blamed for extreme weather in the northern hemisphere (VIDEO)

Powerball winner Pedro Quezada's wife thanks God for $338 million jackpot; IRS thanks him for half

2014 Oscars moved to March to avoid clash with Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia

Guantanamo prison hunger strike grows

Shorter shifts may cause medical interns to make more errors: study

Maryland House of Delegates passes medical marijuana measure

Jesse James marries a fourth time, to professional drag-racer and hair products heiress Alexis DeJoria

Study: cold sore virus may lead to dementia in older adults

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg joining tech industry executives to start lobby group

Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes off for test flight

Prince Harry will visit the US in May to meet with injured soldiers

Cisco purchases another foreign company

John Roberts' lesbian cousin to attend gay marriage hearings

Man gets 18 years in Seattle terror plot

Tiger Woods regains No. 1 ranking after win

Celia Renteria hikes mile for help after crash kills dad (VIDEO)

Miss. lawmaker Jessica Upshaw found dead of apparent suicide in home of a former colleague

Supreme Court agrees to hear Michigan's affirmative action case

Companies give Detroit $8M to buy new ambulances and police cars

Study: Many parents are giving babies solid food too early

Italian court weighs whether to reopen Amanda Knox sex-murder case

South Korea, US sign military plan against possible North Korea attacks

US Secretary of State John Kerry makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

Takeaways from Obama's Mideast trip

VIDEO: A rare, endangered baby giraffe born at a Conn. conservation center

Penn. man fatally shoots 2-year-old, wounds wife before killing self

NRA sends pro-gun robocalls to Newtown residents

NRA sends pro-gun robocalls to Newtown residents

Two die skydiving

NRA's LaPierre: Bloomberg trying to 'buy America' with $12m ad blitz

Ford India ad stirs controversy after women depicted bound and gagged

Freed New York 'rabbi killer' David Ranta suffers heart attack

Florida teen fatally shoots younger brother, mistakes him for intruder

Michael Bloomberg to bankroll $12 million nationwide ad campaign to counter gun lobby

Marine Corps releases names of three Marines killed in Quantico shooting

Powerball winning ticket for $338 million sold in New Jersey

Anne Frank tree saplings headed for 11 US locations (VIDEO)

Obama tours ancient city of Petra in Jordan to cap off Middle East trip (PHOTOS)

Obama tours ancient city of Petra in Jordan to cap off Middle East trip

Frenchman posing as pilot gains access to plane cockpit Philadelphia airport

Presidential deceptions on Iraq led US to abandon core values

CIA helping Syrian rebels in fight against Bashar al-Assad's troops, report says

Meteor sighted on the US East Coast

TrueCar aims to foster hassle-free auto deals

Budget cuts close down 149 air traffic towers in the US

North Dakota moves to outlaw abortion making life begin at conception

US college student Samuel Levine plunges to death from hotel balcony in Mexico

David Viens, California chef who boiled wife's body, sentenced to prison

Police arrest 2 teenagers suspected of shooting dead baby and injuring mother in Brunswick