National News

President Barack Obama is taking steps to defuse a controversy that surged to the forefront of the presidential campaign.

The government has disclosed new details about the relationship between a Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane and a man who is described as his mentor.

The federal government's lead lawyer in an upcoming trial over fault in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is urging judges to make sensitive business documents and testimony public.

A man from Uzbekistan has pleaded guilty to terror-related charges in a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama.

Federal regulators say an ammonia leak that caused an emergency alert at Southern California's San Onofre nuclear plant was caused by employees who failed to recognize degraded equipment and fix it.

The Navy has named a ship for Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head received in January 2011.

The Pennsylvania judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse case has set a tentative trial date of May 14th. 

State police say a driver was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes in Louisiana and crashed head-on with another vehicle with four people inside. 

A county coroner says he examined the body of late Philadelphia Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua at the request of prosecutors because of the odd timing of his death a day after he was found competent to testify at a high-profile church sex abuse trial.

Ulugbek Kodirov, an Uzbekistan national charged with supporting terrorism in a plot to kill President Barack Obama, will enter his plea in a federal court in Alabama.