Posted: 3:14 PM Authorities say a man and a woman in Kentucky left 19 children unattended for a week in a sweltering, filthy home.

Posted: 3:08 PM Police say a 3-year-old Southern California boy ended up in the hospital after eating his grandmother's marijuana-laced cookies.

Posted: 3:07 PM Barclays CEO Bob Diamond and COO Jerry del Missier have resigned in the wake of the interest rate-fixing scandal that has rocked the bank.

Posted: 3:03 PM Pakistan has decided to reopen supply routes that the United States and its allies have used for their troops in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.

Posted: 2:59 PM Dara Torres' quest at the age of 45 to make her sixth U.S. Olympic team came down to a single, furious lap.

Posted: 2:54 PM An American student is in critical condition after undergoing two operations after chimpanzees tore apart his body in front of tourists at a South African animal sanctuary, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN on Tuesday.

Posted: 2:51 PM Former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno may have played a greater role than previously known in a decision made by university officials not to report a 2001 incident involving former coach Jerry Sandusky and a boy in a locker room shower, according to e-mails written by university officials.

Posted: 2:48 PM Thousands of miles away from raging Western wildfires, North Carolina lowered its flags to half-staff Tuesday to honor four crew members of a U.S. military firefighting plane who were killed in a weekend crash.

Posted: 2:42 PM Out of power since Friday, Bethesda, Maryland, resident Jacqueline Hirsch went to the library to seek relief from the heat, only to find hundreds of others had the same idea.

Posted: 1:31 PM The call, which the official confirmed took place Friday, was recorded and posted in part on the Daily Beast.

Posted: 1:28 PM Romney will already be overseas in late July to attend the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Posted: 1:24 PM The Obama campaign says the 30-second spot is running on TV in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, all important swing states that both campaigns will contest in the race for the White House.

Posted: 1:20 PM The state Senate is currently balanced with 16 Republicans and 16 Democrats, and the body's presiding officers are Republicans.

Posted: 1:17 PM Biden will meet with labor leaders and local elected officials in nearby Pittston, Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon, a campaign official said.

Posted: 1:11 PM Former President Clinton earned $13.4 million in speaking fees in 2011.

Posted: 11:34 AM Only one in four independent voters approve of Romney's plans and only two in five approve of Obama's plans, according to the ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Tuesday.

Posted: 11:04 AM Television icon Andy Griffith is dead at the age of 86, CBS News reports.

Posted: 9:38 AM Nevada's rapid population growth has diluted Mormon influence on elections.

Posted: 9:34 AM The outspoken New Jersey governor said he wasn't confident that he would wind up becoming Romney's pick.

Posted: 9:30 AM Ayotte and Romney will march down Main Street in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, where Romney has been spending some time away from the campaign trail at his lakeside vacation home.

Posted: 9:24 AM Bachmann, whose name has not been frequently mentioned as a potential contender, left it up to the presumptive GOP nominee and his team to make a comment.

Posted: 10:28 PM Talking urinal-deodorizer cakes have been distributed to Michigan Licensed Beverage Association members. A recorded message will play reminding men who step up to the urinals to call a cab or a friend, if needed, to get home safely.

Posted: 10:22 PM Raymond Bitar, 40, was arrested as he arrived at Kennedy Airport. Authorities say he operated a scheme that cost poker players hundreds of millions of dollars.

Posted: 10:18 PM Seventy-five years ago Monday, one of this country's great mysteries began as Americans learned that Earhart was missing. The famous pilot's plane was last seen over the Pacific.

Posted: 10:10 PM Forty-two-year-old Anita Guzzardi of Haddon Heights, N.J. pleaded guilty Friday to charges of theft by deception, unlawful use of a computer and forgery.