Some lawmakers have expressed surprise that gaps in visa checking procedures have persisted.

The history of beer in the United States is a rich one dating back to the colonies, when soldiers were paid in spruce beer and cider. From there beer weathered a Revolution, Prohibition and a right turn at Albuquerque before positively exploding with deregulation of the industry through the early 1980s.

More than four inches of heavy rains the metro over the weekend causing trees to fall and widespread flooding across the metro area. 

Technology developed for warfare finds surprising civilian applications, including surveys of wildlife populations.    

New York's attorney general plans to sue Bank of America and Wells Fargo over their mortgage practices.

A Phoenix jury is on its second day of deliberations in the trial of Jodi Arias, who is accused of murdering her one-time boyfriend in Arizona.

Jurors took a lunch break at noon Monday after three hours of deliberations. They are scheduled to resume at 1 p.m.

The jury began deliberating Friday on whether the 32-year-old Arias should be convicted of first-degree murder in Travis Alexander's June 4, 2008, death.

Prosecutors say Arias planned the attack in a jealous rage.

Arias initially denied involvement, then blamed it on two masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said it was self-defense.

Testimony in the case began in early January, and Arias spent 18 days on the witness stand.

A Minnesota man arrested after investigators found weapons and explosives in his home was scheduled to appear in federal court in St. Paul Monday afternoon.

A Texas group run by a self-described anarchist has posted what appears to be the first video of the live firing of a handgun created with a 3-D printer.

The Pentagon is officially accusing the Chinese government of conducting computer-based attacks.

More than 70 percent responding to a recent survey worried more about outliving their health than outliving their money.

Former Atlanta Braves player Otis Nixon was arrested for crack cocaine possession in Cherokee County.

The lawmaker won a warm reception last Friday from a crowd of hundreds at the South Carolina GOP's Silver Elephant Dinner.

Today is the third anniversary of the 2010 Flash Crash.

President Obama practiced some congressional relations on the golf course Monday, hitting the links with a pair of Republican senators.  And Georgia's Saxby Chambliss got a hole in one.

After she became the victim of a theft near Piedmont Park, CNN anchor Carol Costello is bringing attention to the growing trend known as "apple picking." 

Obama's political arm is staffing up to back immigration reform and gun control.

A referee who died after being punched by a teenage player knew well the violence that too often surfaced in his recreational soccer league. But neither he nor his family thought it would turn deadly, his heartbroken daughter told CNN Monday.

"I believe that before it's all over, this president will not fill out his full term," he says.