Mom and baby among five killed as tornadoes rake Oklahoma City area

By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Violent thunderstorms on Friday produced tornadoes in central Oklahoma that killed five peop...

Mother and baby killed as tornadoes menace Oklahoma City

By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla (Reuters) - Violent thunderstorms spawned tornadoes that menaced Oklahoma City and its already har...

Tornado touches down near Oklahoma City, emergency declared

By Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A "large and extremely dangerous" tornado that touched down west of Oklahoma City...

Obama pushes to hold down student loan interest rates

By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday pushed his plan to tie federal student loan interest rates t...

FBI probes two cases of ricin letters to Obama, others

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are investigating a Texas man over threatening letters containing a potentially deadly poison mail...

U.S. appeals court upholds Obama gun reporting rule

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a gun reporting rule that the Obama administration adopted in 2011 to try ...

Iranian-born man gets 25 years for Saudi envoy murder plot

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Iranian-born used car salesman from Texas was sentenced to 25 years in a U.S. prison on Thursda...

Father of slain man linked to Boston suspects wants FBI agents tried

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead during FBI questioning over his links with the Boston Marathon bombing susp...

Obama says Democrats could win back U.S. House in 2014

By Roberta Rampton CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, whose agenda has been frustrated by Republicans in Washington, said on W...

Threatening letters sent to New York mayor may contain ricin : police

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two anonymous letters addressed to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his gun control group contained material...

Angry about immigration plan, some gay donors cut off Democrats

By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some disappointed activists say they are yanking their support for the Democratic Party aft...

Judge rejects legal challenges by accused Colorado theater gunman

DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado judge on Wednesday rejected challenges to the state's insanity defense statute and death penalty law by ...

U.S. spelling bee starts with a new challenge : definitions

By Ian Simpson OXON HILL, Maryland (Reuters) - Sometimes-nervous contestants in the United States' Scripps National Spelling Bee la...

U.S. spelling bee starts with a new challenge: Definitions

By Ian Simpson OXON HILL, Maryland (Reuters) - Young contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee launched two days of competition ...

U.S. accuses currency exchange of laundering $6 billion

By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have filed an indictment against the operators of digital currency exchange Libe...

Obama, Christie reunite to promote Jersey Shore recovery

By Steve Holland ASBURY PARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie, s...

Insight: California environmentalists fear frack fight a distraction

By Rory Carroll and Braden Reddall MONTEREY, Calif./BAKERSFIELD, California (Reuters) - As California sets the ground rules for drillin...

Florida judge rejects delay in George Zimmerman murder trial

By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida judge on Tuesday ruled out any further delay in next month's trial of Geor...

Florida court debates what jury can hear in Trayvon Martin killing

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A court hearing begins Tuesday to determine how Trayvon Martin should be portrayed to a ...

On Memorial Day, Obama pays tribute to fallen

By Jeff Mason ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama paid tribute on Monday to fallen men and women of the U.S. armed s...

From baseballs to twine balls, rural America offers odd roadside attractions

By Kevin Murphy MUSCOTAH, Kansas (Reuters) - The 176 residents of this fading Kansas town have high hopes for their old wa...

Obama to visit tornado hit Oklahoma town on Sunday

MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was headed to Moore, Oklahoma, on Sunday to tour the town that was hammered last week b...

Stars from worn U.S. flags used by New York group to honor military

By Holly McKenna TROY, New York (Reuters) - Stars cut from worn-out U.S. flags will be handed out on Memorial Day to men a...

What Detroit crisis? Pension fund trustees hang out in Hawaii

By Malia Mattoch McManus HONOLULU (Reuters) - The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn...

Arizona jury foreman says believed Jodi Arias was abused

By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - The foreman of an Arizona jury that deadlocked over whether Jodi Arias should be put...

Sandy who? Jersey shore opens for summer seven months after storm

By Victoria Cavaliere SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (Reuters) - The New Jersey shore ushered in the unofficial start of summ...