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CHICAGO (AP) -- Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter are just a few of the Nobel Peace Prize winners expected in Chicago on Monday for a three-day summit, the first of its kind in North America....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The mysterious caller claimed to be from Microsoft and offered step-by-step instructions to repair damage from a software virus. The electric power companies weren't falling for it....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The mysterious caller claimed to be from Microsoft and offered step-by-step instructions to repair damage from a software virus. The electric power companies weren't falling for it....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney's way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney's way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting in disreputable establishments are no longer tolerated....

CHICAGO (AP) -- The trial of the man accused of killing Jennifer Hudson's family opened with the marquee witness, as prosecutors put the award-winning actress and singer on the stand Monday for sometimes-tearful testimony that may well leave a lasting impression on jurors....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- With the horrors of a deadly shooting rampage still a fresh memory, some students at a California Christian college on Monday will resume attending classes in a building where seven people were killed earlier this month....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A generation of sheltered American children grew up in the shadow of anxiety that fell over this country one day in 1979, when a little boy with a charming grin vanished from a Manhattan street corner....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians' reluctance to take painful action to fix the huge retirement and disability program....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- He had a Las Vegas wedding to attend, but Bryan Dalia was hung over from some marathon partying the night before....

WASHINGTON — High energy prices and an economy that has been slow to rebound are worsening Social Security's finances, shortening the life of the trust funds that support program by three years, the government said Monday.

Those trust funds will now run dry in 2033, according to a report issued ...

BILLLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Booming oil production across a wide expanse of the Northern Plains is forcing law enforcement from the U.S. and Canada to gird for a spike in crimes ranging from drug trafficking and gun offenses to prostitution....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Roger Clemens perjury trial moves into the next phase with the planned seating of a jury and opening arguments....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman, who slipped out of jail on $150,000 bail in the early morning darkness, went back into hiding Monday and likely fled to another state to avoid threats as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman was released around midnight Sunday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin....

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Polly Klaas. Elizabeth Smart. Megan Kanka. The names are synonymous with a parent's worst nightmare: a child snatched by a stranger from the safety of her own home....