Posted: 10:32 PM Congress has passed a GOP-sponsored bill banning so- called "late term abortions" - procedures for women who are beyond 22 weeks into their pregnancies.

Posted: 10:23 PM Hastings was a reporter for BuzzFeed, and is remembered for his Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The profile revealed rifts between Obama and his commanders. McChrystal abruptly retired after the article was published.

Posted: 7:29 PM The Security Assistance Force says four NATO coalition service members have been killed, and a spokesman speaking anonymously says all four were Americans.

Posted: 6:10 PM Last year, about 18 percent of adults who participated in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers, according to the latest figures.

Posted: 5:48 PM Three suspects are charged with holding a disabled woman and her daughter. The victims were forced to eat dog food, a law enforcement source says. The woman was treated "worse than they treated the animals," prosecutor says.

Posted: 10:14 PM Chrysler stated last week that it will not comply with the recall demand, arguing that the vehicles are safe. It continued to claim Tuesday that the vehicles -- 1993 to 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokees and 2002 to 2007 Jeep Libertys -- are safe.

Posted: 4:08 PM Photos posted to Twitter as a tornado touches down in Colorado.

Updated: 1:41 PM Dad's household tasks are worth about $23,344 according to the 2013 Insure.com Father's Day index.

Posted: 12:21 PM Five weeks after the IRS acknowledged that at least one of its offices put undue scrutiny on conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, lawmakers are still sorting out the facts.

Posted: 11:40 AM The nation's teacher-training programs do not adequately prepare would-be educators for the classroom, even as they produce almost triple the number of graduates needed, according to a survey of more than 1,000 programs released Tuesday.

Posted: 6:02 AM In one of the biggest-ever showdowns between an automaker and the government, Chrysler on Tuesday is expected to file papers explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs that are at risk of catching fire in rear-end collisions.

Updated: 6:03 AM A central Ohio day care worker sprinkled drugs on snacks to get children in her day care to sleep during the day, according to police charges filed Monday that the woman adamantly denies as a misunderstood joke.

Updated: 5:48 AM Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country's armed forces are taking over the lead for security around the country from the U.S.-led NATO coalition.

Posted: 12:08 AM Iranian President-elect Hassan Rowhani speaks to the press following a visit to the Khomeini mausoleum, in Tehran Monday.

Updated: 11:03 PM NASA has selected another generation of astronauts to travel to new destinations in the solar system, including an asteroid and Mars, and for the first time in its history half of the new candidates are women.

Posted: 11:00 PM Americans outraged by leaked information about two top-secret government surveillance programs are "not getting the complete story," President Obama told Charlie Rose in a PBS interview which aired Monday night.

Updated: 10:57 PM The founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center wants the Justice Department to investigate allegations that a Minnesota man commanded a Nazi unit accused of war crimes in World War II.

Posted: 6:34 PM The boys, 16 and 17, were hoisted off the cliff in the Sierra Buttes in California. They had stranded themselves atop a windy, 8,600-foot-high cliff

Updated: 12:08 AM Purported Snowden blog post says any possibility of a fair trial has been destroyed. Another post says Obama "deepened and expanded" abusive security programs.

Posted: 3:56 PM A passenger on board a flight from Hong Kong to Newark, N.J., claimed he had poisoned everyone on board.

Posted: 3:49 PM Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has fired off a letter to President Obama questioning some of his political appointees' use of alternate government email accounts to conduct official business.

Updated: 6:11 PM The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.

Posted: 6:51 AM A glittering, $25,000 Super Bowl ring is sitting in the Kremlin's library, but does it belong there?

Posted: 6:30 AM A 25-year-old accountant from Connecticut with a secret glamorous side is the new Miss USA.

Posted: 6:25 AM Firefighters are getting a better handle on the most destructive wildfire ever in Colorado, but they're still struggling against hot spots that could threaten homes that have been spared by the massive blaze.