Posted: 7:27 AM President Barack Obama faces mounting pressure to decide whether to approve Keystone XL, a $7 billion proposed oil pipeline between the U.S. and Canada.

Posted: 7:22 AM The federal government is adopting state water pollution rules for Florida instead of its own version favored by environmental groups that had sued the agency.

Posted: 7:17 AM Activity at the nation's busiest cargo complex is still down to a crawl because of a strike by clerical workers, whose picket lines are being honored by dockworkers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Posted: 7:10 AM There's no break in sight for Northern California where stormy weather, including heavy rain and strong winds, has knocked out power to thousands, delayed flights, tied up traffic and flooded some roadways.

Posted: 10:46 PM Senior administration officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama could name his next defense secretary in December.

Posted: 10:44 PM Police have been searching for five people who entered a high-end handbag store in a major mall near Pittsburgh and stole a number of purses in an "orchestrated" heist.

Posted: 10:42 PM Casper Police Chief Walsh says a man wielding a sharp-edged weapon killed one person in a Casper neighborhood Friday morning before going to the nearby Casper College campus.

Posted: 12:40 PM Lottery officials say a 52-year-old mechanic from northwest Missouri holds one of the two tickets matching all six numbers in the record $588 million Powerball jackpot.

Updated: 12:37 PM There were 19 named storms in what meteorologists consider an above-average year that tied as being the third most-active season since 1851.

Posted: 7:07 PM Minot is in the midst of an oil boom and has more unfilled jobs than potential workers.

Posted: 7:05 PM Pfc. Bradley Manning testified Thursday at a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, outside Baltimore.

Posted: 7:04 PM Republicans familiar with a new White House offer on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff say it looks almost exactly like President Barack Obama's budget proposal in February.

Posted: 7:00 PM Attack victim Charla Nash's brother filed a lawsuit on her behalf in 2009 in state Superior Court seeking $50 million in damages from chimp owner Sandra Herold, who died in 2010.

Posted: 6:59 PM Officials are in the process of confirming it's a winner.

Updated: 12:04 PM Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for treatment of a lingering cough.

Updated: 9:58 AM The U.S. economy grew at a faster 2.7 percent annual rate from July through September, although the strength may fade in the final months of the year.

Posted: 8:58 PM The Fed says growth improved in nine of its 12 regional banking districts.

Posted: 8:57 PM Surrounded Wednesday by his Cabinet members -- including Rice -- Obama said he could not be prouder of the job she has done on behalf of the United States at the United Nations.

Posted: 6:51 PM Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Wednesday that Maddox Derkosh's death at the Pittsburgh Zoo was a "tragic accident."

Updated: 10:23 AM The White House says President Barack Obama will meet privately Thursday with his vanquished rival Mitt Romney, their first face-to-face encounter since the election.

Posted: 6:56 PM The plea Tuesday in federal court was a procedural move paving the way for a later guilty plea.

Posted: 6:54 PM Three others at the Gold Age Villa in Loomis died from eating the mushrooms in what sheriff's investigators have previously characterized as an accident.

Posted: 1:09 PM Frustration remains over congressional efforts to get records on gun-tracking operation.

Posted: 6:57 PM Congress and President Barack Obama have until the end of the year to avoid tax increases and automatic spending cuts.

Posted: 6:56 PM n autopsy has concluded that a Florida man choked to death after downing dozens of live roaches during a contest earlier this year.