CPS approves largest school closure in Chicago's history

Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked...

L.A. mayor's race: It's Eric Garcetti by wide margin

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Defense attorneys release scores of photos, preparing for George Zimmerman trial

Defense attorneys have released scores of new photos in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder case, including those of clothes he and...

Greuel holds thin lead against Garcetti in early balloting

In the first ballots counted in the race for the next mayor of Los Angeles, City Controller Wendy Greuel held a slight lead over City...

White House officials knew of IRS audit findings weeks in advance

WASHINGTON — Top officials in the White House learned in April that an investigation of the IRS...

Vermont governor signs physician assisted suicide bill

With the strokes from three gubernatorial pens, Vermont on Monday became the fourth state in the country to allow doctors to prescribe...

Federal immigration services union joins opposition to bill

WASHINGTON – A labor union that represents federal officers who vet immigration applications has decided to oppose the immigration...

Conn. commuters cope with tough week after train crash

Supreme Court to hear prayer case

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will revisit the issue of church-state separation and decide whether a town council can begin its...

GrubHub, Seamless to combine online food ordering businesses

Chicago-based food ordering startup GrubHub is merging with its rival Seamless, creating a company with more than $100 million in revenue...

Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm

Obama urges Morehouse College graduates to help others

WASHINGTON — President Obama urged graduates of a celebrated historically black college Sunday to use their education to help others...

Yahoo's board is said to OK buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1-billion cash acquisition of blogging site Tumblr.

Syrian soldiers warned daily of sectarian dangers

MARAAT NUMAN, Syria — Each morning, after saluting the Syrian flag and before the warplanes take off, soldiers at army bases across...

Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT

The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball.

Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31

It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sooty black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth...

Italian court told about Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties

 ROME -- The Moroccan-born dancer at the center of Silvio Berlusconi’s prostitution trial took the stand in court for the first...

Two blasts in Iraq leave at least 70 dead

BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead...