Posted: 8:21 PM Vice President Joe Biden says even if he can't do everything he wants to combat gun violence, doing something is still better than doing nothing.

Posted: 10:48 AM The Supreme Court is considering whether police must get a warrant before ordering a blood test on an unwilling drunken-driving suspect.

Updated: 2:38 PM A high-speed ferry loaded with hundreds of commuters from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan on Wednesday during the morning rush hour, seriously injuring 11 people, including one who suffered a severe head wound falling down a stairwell.

Posted: 8:13 AM NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Transocean Ltd. is scheduled to make an initial court appearance in New Orleans Wednesday for its plea agreement with the Justice Department over the company's role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Updated: 9:13 AM CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - The prosecution's final witness is expected to continue his testimony today at a hearing to determine if the Colorado theater shooting suspect should stand trial.

Posted: 8:47 PM The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will testify on the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Libya on Jan. 22.

Posted: 8:31 PM A detective says the alleged gunman in the Colorado theater shooting acted strangely in an interview soon after the attack.

Posted: 7:34 AM A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says Bush's recovery from a bronchitis-related cough and subsequent complications is "continuing" and there's still no timetable for his release from a Houston hospital.

Updated: 9:12 AM Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has one word about gun violence in America: "Enough."

Updated: 5:45 AM DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - There is no doubt that Casey Anthony lied to detectives when she told them her 2-year-old daughter had been kidnapped by a babysitter.

Posted: 12:35 AM Digging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former senator and combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon and anti-terrorism chief John Brennan as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Updated: 9:13 AM Investigators in Chicago have a mystery to solve after new toxicology tests show a Chicago man ingested a lethal dose of cyanide just as he was about to collect nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings.

Posted: 4:47 PM A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says Bush's recovery from a bronchitis-related cough and subsequent complications is "continuing" and there's still no timetable for his release from a Houston hospital.

Posted: 4:46 PM A microchip implant has helped a dog from Pennsylvania named Roxy get home after the missing animal was found 1,500 miles away in Houston.

Posted: 2:59 PM A police officer who arrested James Holmes after the Colorado movie theater massacre thought he was a fellow officer at first because the man was wearing body armor.

Posted: 2:47 PM U.S. prosecutors say a suspect in an alleged al-Qaida plot against the New York City subways also was part of a terror campaign that would have targeted Britain and Norway.

Posted: 2:39 PM President Barack Obama has tapped White House homeland security adviser John Brennan as his nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

Updated: 9:34 AM The Obama administration is rejecting a new proposal from Syrian President Bashar Assad that would begin a peace process and keep the besieged leader in power.

Updated: 9:19 AM President Barack Obama will nominate Republican Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary.

Posted: 11:03 PM The State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will return to work Monday, a little over a week after she was hospitalized with a blood clot in her head.

Posted: 11:00 PM President Barack Obama has signed into law a $9.7 billion bill to pay flood insurance claims from Superstorm Sandy.

Posted: 4:34 PM Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell federal spending and the country's debt will dominate the congressional agenda for the next three months, and that debate about potential gun legislation in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting will take a back seat.

Posted: 12:21 PM Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but what about the many other ways obesity can damage your health?

Posted: 7:08 PM If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops - the country's front-line warfighters - how many women will want to?

Posted: 7:04 PM The Denver suburb of Aurora is the site of another multiple shooting.