National News

An intelligence official says the government has nearly doubled the number of people on the no-fly list since the attempted Christmas Day attack near Detroit.

Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools.

A dramatic 911 call reveals a terrified 7-year-old boy begging emergency dispatchers to send police to his California home where three armed robbers were threatening his parents.

David Letterman is thanking authorities for their efforts in prosecuting the former CBS producer who tried to shake him down.

Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway.

A television producer has pleaded guilty to trying to shake down David Letterman over the comic's sexual affairs.

An envelope containing a suspicious powder burst open Tuesday while being handled by state workers in a Montana government office.

Police in New Orleans say the body of a missing Texas oil executive has been pulled from the Mississippi River.

A judge has ruled that part of a search warrant can be unsealed in the case of an animal research technician charged with killing a Yale University graduate student.

A new poll shows that Americans and their lawmakers are out of sync on health care.