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Soldier arrested in possible Fort Hood plot

An AWOL U.S. soldier facing a court-martial was planning to detonate bombs sometime Thursday outside the U.S. military base at Fort Hood, Texas, where a gunman killed 13 people in 2009, authorities said.

House to vote on GOP bill â€" key step in fight

As Thursday's crucial vote neared, Republican leaders convinced a growing number of their fractious rank and file to support a House plan to stave off an unprecedented government default.

Prosecutors: Polygamist's sex assault is on tape

Prosecutors said they have an audio tape of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs sexually assaulting a 12-year-old child, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Scientist in hot water over polar bears, Al Gore

A U.S. scientist being investigated over a study on polar bear deaths that was cited by Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Truth" has gone on the offensive.

Alarm raised on 'depletion of the body snatchers'

A fish species that doesn't get much love â€" and that's despite the fact that it has four hearts and two brains â€" is being fished into extinction, a conservation alliance warns.

Strauss-Kahn maid's appeal: Please believe me

The hotel maid who accused ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her makes an emotional public appeal for people to believe her story.

Judge strikes circumcision ban from SF ballot

A San Francisco judge has stricken a proposed circumcision ban from the city's November ballot.

FBI joins investigation into Ann Arbor attacks

The FBI announced Thursday it has joined the Ann Arbor Police department in the investigation into six recent attacks near the University of Michigan campus.

Free pot in exchange for registering to vote?

A medical marijuana shop's offer of free pot in exchange for registering to vote appears to have gone up in smoke.

Atheists want 9/11 cross removed from museum

An atheist group has filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent a cross made out of World Trade Center steel beams from going on display at the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

Tropical storm heading for Texas coast

Tropical Storm Don, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was churning Thursday across the Gulf of Mexico and toward the Texas coast.

Dangling fake testicles get woman in trouble

The police chief of a small South Carolina town will ask a jury to decide if a woman broke the state's obscenity laws by driving a pickup truck with plastic testicles hanging from the back.

Record rains soak Midwest; new flooding ahead?

Overnight storms dumped a record amount of rain on parts of the Midwest, including more than 10 inches falling on Dubuque, Iowa, prompting fears of more Mississippi River flooding.