All USA Update
In reversal, White House says Obama stayed with uncle who faced deportationAfter President Obama's uncle testified in immigration court this week that he briefly provided housing for his nephew more than two decades ago, the White House corroborated his account.
Winter weather blankets US, from New Mexico to Michigan. Next up: Tennessee.A rush of Arctic air is sweeping across the nation this week. Of particular concern: potential ice storms that could knock out power to hundreds of thousands of residents.
Yarnell fire report: Forestry officials didn't put enough value on human lifeA report by the Arizona Industrial Commission found that the Forestry Division failed to remove firefighters even after it learned of troubling developments in the Yarnell fire.
Brakes weren't the problem in New York train crash, NTSB saysFederal investigators of the New York train crash said Tuesday that they did not find mechanical errors in the commuter cars that crashed on Sunday. Attention is focusing on the driver.
Derailed New York train was going 82 m.p.h. in 30 m.p.h. zone, feds sayRaw data show the train that derailed in the Bronx borough of New York Sunday was going much too fast, but investigators are still questioning the train's crew to figure out why.
Clues sought to fatal train derailment in New YorkFederal investigators probing Sunday's derailment of a Metro-North commuter train, in which four were killed, are checking the tracks, equipment, and maintenance records. They have also recovered the train's black box, which will show how fast the train was going at the time.
Thanksgiving storm: Travel is OK, but Macy's parade may lose balloonsA Nor'easter is affecting Thanksgiving travel, though not as much as earlier reports had indicated. It will leave cold, windy weather behind, which could affect the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Are gassy cattle a bigger problem than US government thought?Cattle generate twice as much methane as the EPA supposed, according to a new report. The study's findings may also change assumptions about the safety of extracting natural gas, which consists primarily of methane.
Rebecca Sedwick suicide: Mother vows to 'crusade' for tougher bullying lawsThe mother of Rebecca Sedwick, a 12-year-old who committed suicide after being bullied, wants new state and federal laws passed. She also said she would file a civil suit.
Thanksgiving Day: widespread sun after a cold, wet messA storm which has dragged snow and ice across across California and the Southwest will charge up the East coast Tuesday and Wednesday, throwing holiday travel plans into a wet tangle in at least 20 states.
Chemist who falsified drug tests in criminal cases goes to jail herselfAnnie Dookhan, who was a state chemist for Massachusetts, pleaded guilty Friday and will serve three to five years in prison. As many as 350 people have already been released from jail as a result of her wrongdoing.
Scottsboro Boys: 82 years later, redemption from AlabamaAlabama has granted posthumous pardons to the last three of nine black men convicted in 1931 of raping two white women. The saga of the Scottsboro Boys yielded landmark US Supreme Court decisions about racial justice.
Fourteen-year-old indicted for murder, rape of teacher in Danvers, Mass.Philip Chism will be tried as an adult on the murder charge. The teen has also been charged with aggravated rape and armed robbery in connection with the death of the Danvers High School teacher, Colleen Ritzer.
First female Marines pass infantry training – but no combat yetIn a historic first, three women graduated from US Marine infantry training school Thursday. But unlike their male counterparts, they won't be assigned to infantry units.
Hey kids, it's true: Your parents were never this slowNew research shows that kids around the world, on average, need an extra 90 seconds to run a mile than did kids in 1975. Increased body weight and a lack of exercise are factors.
Albuquerque voters reject city ban on late-term abortionsAbortion foes around the country have been developing a strategy of bringing the battle over abortion to the local level, but the rejected ordinance in Albuquerque was the first attempt to pass restrictions at the municipal level.
Minister who presided at gay son's wedding: 'I will never be silent again'The Methodist minister was convicted by his ecclesiastical peers of breaking church law for presiding at the same-sex wedding. But in a hearing Tuesday to determine punishment he was increasingly defiant.
Tesla Model S battery fires: US safety probe ordered after third in 6 weeksTesla CEO Elon Musk said he requested the probe of the Model S to erase any 'false perception' about electric car safety. But the US safety agency NHTSA said it decided to act independently.
- Google, Microsoft announce steps to block child porn. Will they succeed?
Google and Microsoft will reprogram their search engines so that 100,000 potentially relevant terms will no longer yield links to illegal child porn images. Details for how this will roll out in the US are not clear yet.
Fewer US teens using tobacco, but e-cigarettes' appeal on the riseCigarette smoking and use of other tobacco products fell for both middle-schoolers and high school students, the Centers for Disease Control reports. But teens' use of e-cigarettes nearly doubled in one year.
