Updated: 12:59 PM The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits edged up slightly last week but remained at a level consistent with modest gains in hiring.

Updated: 11:20 AM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Thousands of devotees converged on Graceland to mark the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death and got a surprise welcome from the King's former wife and daughter, the first time Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley have appeared together at the annual gathering.

Updated: 8:57 AM The NATO-led international military coalition says a helicopter crash in Afghanistan has killed 11 people including seven international service members.

Posted: 6:30 AM A Pakistani official says gunmen forced 20 Shiites off buses in northern Pakistan and killed them.

Updated: 9:06 AM Of the millions of tickets sold for last night's drawing, only one matched all six Powerball numbers correctly. The ticket, sold in Michigan, is worth $337 million before taxes.

Updated: 9:15 AM Sears Holdings Corp. has filed paperwork to spin off its smaller Hometown and Outlet stores as well as some hardware stores into a separate publicly traded company.

Posted: 8:00 AM Stock futures are relatively flat this morning with a report from Japan showing slower-than-expected economic growth.

Updated: 1:36 PM President Barack Obama's campaign is already targeting Paul Ryan in a new online video, just two days after the Wisconsin congressman became Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick.

Updated: 8:57 AM Nurses report that evangelist Billy Graham had a restful night at the North Carolina hospital where he's being treated for bronchitis.

Posted: 8:13 AM The feats of athleticism are just about done but London is getting set to bend over backwards one last time to throw a huge Olympics-closing party.

Posted: 11:33 PM President Barack Obama is pledging a wide-ranging response to the worst drought in a quarter-century.

Posted: 12:20 PM Oribe Peralta scored only 29 seconds into the Olympic final and added another goal in the second half to help Mexico upset Brazil 2-1 and win its first soccer gold Saturday.

Updated: 9:06 AM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday.

Posted: 8:27 AM President Barack Obama's campaign is using a new television ad to combat what it says are false charges from Republican Mitt Romney on welfare.

Posted: 7:52 AM Stock futures are falling as Europe's debt crisis is taking a toll on Asia, where exports are slowing and it is unclear whether even broad fiscal policy actions can help.

Updated: 9:48 AM The U.S. military in Afghanistan says three service members have been shot dead by a man in an Afghan army uniform.

Posted: 3:48 PM U.S. airlines are more punctual and less likely to lose your bag than at any time in more than two decades.

Posted: 4:29 AM President Barack Obama is rallying supporters in Colorado as a new poll shows he and Republican Mitt Romney are tied among some voters in the state.

Posted: 12:58 PM The FBI says the motive behind the shootings at a Sikh temple that left six worshippers dead remains unknown but authorities still haven't identified anyone other than the gunman as being responsible.

Updated: 12:28 PM This probably comes as no surprise: Federal scientists say July was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous United States.

Posted: 11:19 AM Texas U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz will be among the "headliners" addressing the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Posted: 8:47 AM NEW YORK (AP) - Firefighters are leaving a World Trade Center construction site after they were summoned by a report of a fire that turned out to be someone welding.

Updated: 5:33 PM A big government study shows that in the last decade, the proportion of children who have high cholesterol has fallen.

Posted: 2:48 PM Jared Loughner listened calmly and without expression while a court-appointed psychologist told a judge he was competent to plead guilty to killing six people in a rampage that wounded then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Updated: 12:59 PM NASA's Curiosity rover has beamed back its first color photo from the ancient crater where it landed on Mars and a video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.