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Some organizations have objected to the health care overhaul's rules, saying they violate religious freedom.

The former chief executive of the British bank Barclays is appearing before a parliamentary committee in Britain Wednesday. Bob Diamond, who resigned Tuesday, is supposed to answer questions about the rate-setting scandal at the company. Barclays released documents Tuesday suggesting that a Bank of England official may have pressured the bank to lower its rates.

Each month, producing the closely watched jobs numbers transforms a quiet federal statistics office into a high-security operation.

After a fourth place finish, the teen tweeted that the diver had let his late father down. Police arrested him under a law that prohibits "grossly offensive" electronic messages.

A pair of NASA satellite images taken just four days apart tells a potentially worrying story of melting ice in the polar summer.

It's well documented that marital happiness plummets with the arrival of a baby. But a study of more than 2,800 married couples identifies common traits that helped more than a third of them buck the trend.

Tuesday's vote seems to signal the end of a 2005 agreement to end the judicial wars in the Senate by barring filibusters except in extraordinary circumstances.

Meanwhile, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is also said to be about to unveil a new tax-cut plan.

A legal ethics expert says Judge Richard Cebull may have run afoul the code of conduct for federal judges.

The Oscar winner, who first began writing music more than 50 years ago, has just released an album of original classical compositions.