Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.

Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.

Authorities in North Carolina say they have found the body of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago.

The White House’s top lawyer is announcing his resignation today, senior administration officials told The Associated Press this morning.

A chagrined GOP Chairman Michael Steele has told Republican National Committee staff to immediately stop providing RNC employees with insurance for elective abortions - an option that Republicans strongly oppose as Democrats try to pass a health care overhaul bill.

Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, and five other suspects will be sent to military commissions, an Obama administration official said Friday.

NATO is reporting the deaths of two more American service members in Afghanistan.

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist and Virginia Tech graduate trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

A Fort Hood spokeswoman says one shooter is in custody after a mass shooting on the Texas Army base. Army officials say at least seven people are dead and 20 wounded.

President Barack Obama’s political clout was on the line Tuesday as Virginia and New Jersey chose governors in contests that could serve as warning signs for Democrats about the public’s mood heading into an important midterm election year.

The Washington Post Co. is reporting a 69 percent jump in third-quarter profit as revenue from its cable TV and education divisions continue to bolster results and its namesake newspaper trimmed its losses.

After months of struggle, House Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation Thursday to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A vote is likely next week on the plan patterned closely on President Barack Obama’s own.

Taliban militants wearing suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early today, killing 12 people—including six U.N. staff—in the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine next month’s presidential runoff election.

NATO’s top official says the alliance welcomes President Barack Obama’s revamped plans for a missile defense system in Europe and hopes to bring it fully into NATO.

A major U.S. Marine base set for relocation must stay on the southern Japan island of Okinawa, the country’s foreign minister said Friday as he tried to ease a deepening rift with Washington.

Top U.S. safety officials are meeting with their Chinese counterparts to seek help for American homeowners complaining of damage from suspect drywall imported from China.

If Marion Lewis had his way, he’d take Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad into the Idaho desert near his home and kill him slowly, over three days.

The director of a circus arena says an ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another.

The U.S. military says an American solider has been killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle in northern Iraq.

Federal drug agents won’t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration.

Hasbro says its profit grew 8.8 percent in the third quarter, helped by lower costs and slightly higher sales of Transformers and G.I. Joe toys.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen for her.

One of America’s wealthiest men was among six hedge fund managers and corporate executives arrested Friday in a hedge fund insider trading case that prosecutors say reaped more than $20 million in illegal profits and should be a wake-up call for Wall Street.

An autumn storm brought snow to parts of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, the earliest snow on record in some towns used to harsh winters.

A U.S. House of Representatives’ panel voted Thursday to regulate for the first time privately traded derivatives, the kind of exotic financial instruments that helped bring down Lehman Brothers and nearly toppled American International Group.

When it comes to recording television programs for later viewing, Democrats like “Saving Grace” while Republicans prefer “Deadliest Catch.“

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is “ultimately responsible” for regulators failing to rein in massive bonus payments at American International Group because he led the agencies that provided AIG’s lifelines, according to a bailout watchdog.

A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview published Wednesday.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stressed to Russian university students Wednesday that their country’s prosperity was dependent on its willingness to cultivate core freedoms, including the freedom to participate in the political process.

A Delaware first-grader who was facing 45 days in an alternative school as punishment for taking his favorite camping utensil to school can return to class after the school board made a hasty change granting him a reprieve.