Nation News

New York City's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is almost ready for the holidays. Read More

The Colorado parents who reported their 6-year-old son floated away aboard a helium balloon will plead guilty to some charges so that the family can stay together, the attorney for the boy's father said Thursday. Read More

One of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad's ex-wives says it was "very difficult" to watch her children grieve as their father was executed. Read More

A jury will decide if a Texas mother accused of dismembering her 3-week-old son is competent to stand trial. Read More

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says armored transport trucks that protect soldiers from roadside bombs are worth every dime spent on them. Read More

Five family members charged in a child sex abuse case in western Missouri have made their first court appearance. Read More

The lawyer for a Massachusetts man accused of conspiring in an alleged terror plot says his client was charged only after he refused three attempts by the FBI to recruit him as an informant. Read More

Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, triggering coastal flood warnings and watches from North Carolina to New York's Long Island, inundating streets and forcing some rescues of stranded drivers in hard-hit Virginia. Read More

ACORN has filed a lawsuit claiming that Congress violated the Constitution when it passed a law cutting off federal funding to the organization. Read More

A spokesman for a Tennessee father arrested in Japan when he snatched his children from his ex-wife says authorities are dropping the case. Read More

North Carolina police said they were searching Thursday for a 5-year-old girl who vanished two days ago and have charged one man with kidnapping her. Read More

A Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to killing a police officer during a robbery two years ago. Read More

The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will record an oral history of President George W. Bush's presidency. Read More

The USS New York has left its namesake city after finishing up its inaugural visit. Read More

The FBI is investigating a death threat against U.S. Rep. Brian Baird. Read More

Funerals are getting under way for some of the 11 victims whose bodies were found on the Cleveland property of a registered sex offender. Read More

Authorities say an early morning blaze swept through a house in Dallas, killing a couple and their 5-year-old son. Read More

Coast Guard boats, planes and helicopters searched the roiling ocean off Cape May on Thursday for three commercial fishermen whose boat sank, and colleagues of the missing men prayed for a miracle. Read More

Relentless rain swept much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, triggering coastal flood warnings and watches from North Carolina to New York's Long Island, inundating streets and forcing some rescues of stranded drivers in hard-hit Virginia. Read More

Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a head-on crash killed three Edinboro University students. Read More