A circus veterinarian says the Asian elephant wounded in a drive-by shooting in Mississippi should be fully recovered within a few weeks.

The U.S. Postal Service says it will delay plans to cut Saturday mail delivery because Congress isn't allowing the change.

With debates on the budget, gun control and immigration looming, President Obama continues his outreach to Republicans, looking for more opportunities for cooperation with Republican senators when he dines with a host of them Wednesday evening at the White House.

The prospect of a North Korean missile test is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang calmly prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power.

The Senate leaders says Democrats "bugged his office" to hear discussions of a strategy if Ashley Judd ran against him.

Recent intelligence shows North Korea likely has completed its launch preparations. The U.S. believes test could occur without standard warning to aviation and shipping.

Medical helicopter crashed in Mosby, Missouri in 2011, killing pilot and three others. Pilot engaged in private text conversation while preparing for doomed flight. Actions could influence federal rules on texting, phone calls by pilots.

New research finds a surprising number of people who survive melanoma engage in risky behaviors after beating cancer, including not wearing sunscreen or visiting a tanning salon.

Foreign Ministry official Johana Tablada told The Associated Press in a written statement Tuesday that Cuba had informed U.S. authorities of the country's decision to turn over Joshua Michael Hakken, his wife Sharyn, and their two young boys.

As Quanesha Wallace remembers, it was around this time last year when the idea first came up at Wilcox County High School. It was nothing big, just chatter about prom, school, what comes next, what they'd change.

The Obama administration calculates it is likely North Korea may test fire mobile ballistic missiles at any time based on the most recent intelligence showing it is likely Pyongyang has completed launch preparations, a U.S. official said.

Former President Bill Clinton has finally joined Twitter

More than a dozen people were wounded when a suspect went building-to-building in an apparent stabbing attack at a Texas college campus Tuesday, authorities said.

North Korea is urging all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate or find out where they can take shelter because it says the rival Koreas are on the eve of a nuclear war. The new threat appeared to be an attempt to keep the region on tenterhooks over its intentions.

Children were playing at a home construction site and buried when wall collapsed. Rescuers dug 24 feet and worked for hours to try to save the children, who were retrieving a small pickaxe when the wall of dirt fell in on them.

A 4-year-old picked up the pistol, investigators say; the gunshot killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy near Nashville.

Actress Annette Funicillo died peacefully at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., of complications from multiple sclerosis, according to the Walt Disney Company.

Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic have discovered it's not the saturated fats or cholesterol from a fatty steak that's triggering heart problems, but a chemical process involving gut bacteria and a compound found in meat called carnitine.

A few tears, some expected wins, the sounds of Stevie Wonder, and even a surprise ending made up the three-hour-long Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday in Las Vegas.

STANLEY, N.C. Authorities have recovered the bodies of two children who were trapped when a wall of dirt fell on them while playing in a hole at a home construction site in North Carolina.

Former President Bill Clinton may have stoked more speculation about his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her potential run for president.

Former porn star Jenna Jameson was charged with battery over the weekend after police said she assaulted someone.

South Korea's Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae's office Monday clarified his earlier statements about North Korea's nuclear test plans by saying the North had been "continuously preparing" for another nuclear test since February, and that there hadn't been any new signs, his office said Monday.

(CBS News) Vice President Biden and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are expected to meet with the families of Newtown school shooting victims on Thursday, over three months after the massacre took place in Connecticut.

The FBI is investigating whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university before he made videos.