Posted: 12:17 PM Michelle Obama says she plans to speak about President Obama's values tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC.

Posted: 6:27 AM With his mother in the hospital and his father out of state, a 6-year-old boy and his siblings were under the care of a teenager when someone apparently entered their New Jersey home at night and killed him while he slept.

Posted: 6:25 AM Democrats gather this week in Charlotte, N.C., with one goal: nominate Barack Obama and stay on message about why he needs to be re-elected.

Posted: 6:21 AM A suspect has been found dead after authorities say a shooter in woods north of the Seattle area fired at SWAT team and other police officers.

Posted: 6:20 AM A wildfire that broke out in California's Angeles National Forest Sunday has quickly grown to at least 3,600 acres, or about 5 1/2 square miles.

Posted: 9:55 PM Covers 16,000 workers in the U.S.

Posted: 11:01 AM Call it Health Care Overhaul, Version 2.0.

Posted: 10:56 AM A freight train struck the rear of another freight train in southwest Chicago early Sunday, derailing several rail cars and damaging a third freight train on an adjacent track, authorities said.

Updated: 9:03 AM A federal judge has sided with Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette Johnson in her legal effort to become the state's first black chief justice.

Updated: 9:03 AM Call it Health Care Overhaul, Version 2.0.

Posted: 8:42 AM Authorities say a 6-year-old boy has been stabbed to death inside his New Jersey home, and his 12-year-old sister has been critically hurt.

Posted: 8:34 AM A freight train struck the rear of another freight train in southwest Chicago early Sunday, derailing several rail cars and damaging a third freight train on an adjacent track, authorities said. Local reports said power was briefly knocked out to more than 2,500 people in the neighborhood.

Posted: 8:59 AM Mitt Romney is trying to gain an edge in the presidential contest with the disputed charge that President Barack Obama is giving welfare recipients a free ride.

Updated: 8:58 AM President Barack Obama would make $2,500 tax credits for college expenses permanent and expand Pell grants for students from lower-earning families. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would instead focus on the need to curb tuition increases that they blame on Obama.

Posted: 8:48 AM An out-of-town jury has been picked to hear a potential death-penalty case against a man accused of killing a game warden in central Pennsylvania.

Posted: 8:19 AM Police say a teenager headed to a Sweet 16 party in New Jersey was killed after he stuck his head out of an emergency hatch of a double-decker bus and hit the underside of a highway overpass.

Posted: 8:26 PM The companies said Friday they have started confidential merger talks. But a deal is still far from reality.

Posted: 5:38 PM Two co-workers died in the hail of bullets.

Posted: 10:19 AM Heavy rains and flooding are blamed for five deaths in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Posted: 3:22 AM A three-judge panel in Washington has struck down a Texas law requiring voters to show ID at the polls. It's the second loss in federal court in just three days for the Lone Star State.

Posted: 2:59 AM Harvard University is investigating whether dozens of undergraduate students cheated on a take-home exam last spring.

Updated: 3:25 AM The mother of a baby allegedly killed by a 10-year-old Maine girl says she is glad the girl is charged but says the girl's mother, who was watching the baby, is really the one who needs to be held responsible.

Updated: 7:51 AM Says Americans are now doubting if their children will have a better future.

Posted: 10:53 PM Talks to empty chair in performance that upset some Romney aides.

Posted: 7:04 PM Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is planning to tell the nation that he wishes President Barack Obama had succeeded but that the time has come to move on.