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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:27pm

(AP) — Charges that an Army sergeant secretly photographed and videotaped women at West Point are part of a military-wide pattern of sexual misconduct, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:22pm

(AP) — International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:22pm

(AP) — President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not eliminated the terrorist organization trying to recruit jihadists.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:19pm

(AP) — A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a "constructive" tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:19pm

(AP) — Losing a game at the final buzzer, no less than a playoff game on the road against the reigning NBA champion Miami Heat, would seem to have potential to demoralize the Indiana Pacers.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:16pm

(AP) — Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:11pm

(AP) — Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:11pm

(AP) — Robert Griffin III's rehab started with a "cry festival." Then came a special new passcode for his cellphone and a chance to hash things with coach Mike Shanahan.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:10pm

(AP) — House members writing a bipartisan immigration bill said Thursday they had patched over a dispute that threatened their efforts, even as they and the rest of Congress prepared to return home for a weeklong recess where many could confront voters' questions on the issue.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:07pm

(AP) — Two men accused of killing a high school freshman who refused to let go of his iPad were like wild animals ambushing a weak victim, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:04pm

(AP) — After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court in Washington.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:03pm

(AP) — CBS is strengthening its dominance over the television industry at the same time that the unprecedented reign of "American Idol" is ending.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:03pm

(AP) — Patrick Roy has been hired as coach of the Colorado Avalanche.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:02pm

(AP) — Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe unusually wild, federal forecasters say.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:01pm

(AP) — The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland house is getting complimentary McDonald's for the next year.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 4:56pm

(AP) — Anthony Weiner set out to reintroduce himself to voters Thursday as he embarked on a mayoral bid after leaving Congress in a sexting scandal. He found a much more supportive reception in his first campaign stop than he did from his party's leadership, who bluntly criticized his candidacy a day earlier.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 4:53pm

(AP) — In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday on whether to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 4:53pm

(AP) — Investors recovered their poise after a shaky start to trading on Wall Street that sent stocks sharply lower.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 4:52pm

(AP) — President Barack Obama's nominee for commerce secretary was questioned briefly about her ties to a subprime mortgage lender that failed in 2001 and her role as a beneficiary of family offshore trusts in the Bahamas, but those were minor bumps in an otherwise smooth Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 4:52pm

(AP) — Mary J. Blige and her husband have been hit with a $3.4 million tax lien in New Jersey.