Late Wednesday, the White House released internal emails that deal with the administration's public description of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

At least six people were killed Wednesday evening as a spring tornado outbreak devastated parts of North Texas, destroying or damaging dozens of homes, injuring dozens of people and leaving hundreds homeless.

So you didn't win Wednesday's $360 million Powerball jackpot? Make that you and everyone else.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.

At least six people were killed Wednesday as a spring tornado outbreak devastated parts of North Texas, destroying or damaging dozens of homes and injuring dozens of people.

Police reported a tornado hit the Rancho Brazos subdivision and adjoining areas along Lake Granbury in the North Texas town of Granbury Wednesday night.

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) were able to create embryonic stem cells, which are valuable for research because they can be turned into any other cell type found in the body.

President Obama on Wednesday announced that acting IRS commissioner Steve Miller is stepping down amid investigations into political discrimination carried out by the IRS against conservative groups.

Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, who heads the Kansas National Guard, says approximately 1100 Kansas National Guard employees will feel the pinch of federal budget cuts.

After weeks of rolling without a winner, the Powerball jackpot has once again ballooned in time for its Wednesday night drawing, which will have an estimated $360 million jackpot -- considered the third largest Powerball jackpot and seventh largest jackpot of any kind in history.

A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died Tuesday after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast.

After lawmakers question the IRS over the undue scrutiny the agency put on conservative groups that filed for tax-exempt status during the 2012 elections, they'll want to take action -- to hold people accountable and eventually consider legislation to amend any systemic problems that led to this kind of political discrimination.

A 75-year-old man is accused of running a prostitution ring that employed some senior citizen housing residents as sex workers, according to NBC 4 in New York.

The National Transportation Safety Board said states should shrink the standard from the current .08 blood alcohol content to .05 as part of a series of recommendations aimed at reducing alcohol-related highway deaths.

Angelina Jolie says she went public with her double mastectomy to encourage other women to be proactive to see if they are also at risk.

Authorities say the father of a 4-year-old boy who shot and fatally wounded a 6-year-old playmate has been arrested and charged with having weapons accessible to children.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he was not involved in the decision to collect telephone records of Associated Press journalists in a probe into leaks of classified information, having stepped aside to avoid any potential conflict of interest in the case.

There were a lot of misses over the past eight years on "How I Met Your Mother" -- countless guest stars and many "almost" loves for Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), who was at one point very close to walking down the aisle.

A group critical of the Virginia burial of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect wants the body disinterred and sent elsewhere.

A federal review of AP phone records is unprecedented but looks legal, analyst Jeffrey Toobin says. There'd better be a "damned good explanation" for subpoenas, according to Speaker Boehner's spokesman.

Strong winds push melting ice onto lakeshore in Minnesota. Twenty homes also destroyed or damaged in Canada, report says. Ice as high as 30 feet on Canadian shore.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has pledged to sign a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, and scheduled a ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the front steps of the Capitol in St. Paul to do so.

Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said Monday night that they were looking for 19-year-old Akein Scott in connection with a Mother's Day parade shooting.

The Justice Department obtained information including outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters and certain offices.

President Obama on Monday vowed to find out "exactly what happened" at the IRS during the period under which the agency targeted conservative groups.