Dr. Kermit Gosnell waived his right to appeal three murder convictions related to failed abortions at his Philadelphia clinic.    

President Barack Obama's team has been handcuffed as never before.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on CNBC's "The Kudlow Report" the IRS scandal is just the tip of the iceberg.

He has also brought on a press secretary and is filling other roles.

The town is turning on President Obama - and this is very bad news for this White House.

The evolving political dynamics of Detroit mean that the flurry of campaigning happens in a city where elected officials no longer have final say.    

Scientists say small lava flows have been detected on two restless volcanoes in Alaska.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory says satellite images Tuesday show the lava partly down a flank of Pavlof Volcano in a low-level eruption 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Geophysicist Dave Schneider says minor steam and ash emissions are visible from the community of Cold Bay 37 miles away.

Pavlof is the second Alaska volcano to erupt this month.

Cleveland Volcano, on an uninhabited island in the Aleutian Islands, experienced a low-level eruption in early May. The observatory says analysis of satellite imagery shows a lava flow partly down a flank of the volcano.

Ash plumes can be an aviation hazard, but no ash clouds have been detected from Cleveland Volcano in the past week.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said that the leak in question was among the two or three most serious leaks he had seen since the 1970s.    

Angelina Jolie’s decision to have her breasts removed because she carries a rare defective gene underscored the painful choices women face in trying to prevent breast cancer.    

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday that most civilian Pentagon employees would be order to take unpaid furloughs of up to 11 days.    

The Congressional Budget Office said the 2013 fiscal deficit would fall to about $642 billion, or 4 percent of G.D.P., about $200 billion less than it estimated just three months ago.    

Gov. Mark Dayton signed a measure Tuesday giving gay couples the right to marry, making Minnesota the 12th state in the nation to permit same-sex marriage.    

The president blasts the agency's scrutiny of conservative groups.

China is forecast to surpass the U.S. as the world's largest corporate debt market for non-financial companies. The Financial Times reports.

The Georgia Institute of Technology will offer a master’s degree in computer science that can be earned entirely through so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs.    

Charles Steger, the Virginia Tech University president who led the college during the 2007 mass shooting, this week announced plans to retire as soon as a successor is found.    

A judge has reduced a landmark $240 million verdict to $1.6 million against Henry’s Turkey Service of Goldthwaite, Tex for 32 mentally disabled workers who suffered years of abuse.    

A Southern legal advocacy group has claimed in a lawsuit that the State of South Carolina should not have surgically altered a 16-month-old child in its custody.    

"It's not something I'm seeking," he says.

A mysterious surge in option market bets on Sony has raised concerns that some traders may have had advance word of the news.