Posted: 9:45 AM Airbus says it will build its first assembly plant in the United States in Alabama.

Posted: 10:32 PM Dozens of demonstrators in Japan are protesting the restarting of a nuclear power plant -- the first to go back online since all reactors were shut down for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Updated: 7:58 PM The director of national intelligence is announcing two steps to avert leaks of classified information following recent disclosures about national security.

Posted: 11:01 AM An 18-month-old's finger was severed by a piranha kept in the family's aquarium.

Posted: 4:14 PM Proposed changes in military compensation would base combat pay on the level of danger troops are in and could make them wait for annual tax refunds to get their extra pay.

Posted: 12:24 PM A new poll says that confidence in U.S. public schools has dropped to the lowest level in nearly four decades.

Posted: 1:42 PM The CIA released hundreds of pages of declassified documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that detail the agency's budgetary woes leading up to the deadly strikes and its attempts to track al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Posted: 10:26 AM A judge has barred an Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood from military court because he still has a beard.

Updated: 6:30 PM Microsoft has unveiled Surface, a tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad.

Posted: 1:37 PM Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel says he's "repudiating" a Hungarian government award he received in 2004 because top officials in Budapest attended a ceremony for a Nazi sympathizer.

Posted: 12:34 PM Aimee Copeland's pain has been so severe as she recovers from a flesh-eating infection that she is now taking painkillers despite her beliefs against it, her father said Sunday

Posted: 9:48 AM Authorities in northwest Ohio say a woman suddenly drove her car into a crowded town square, injuring 20 to 25 people, some of whom were pinned under the car and freed when bystanders lifted it.

Posted: 4:36 PM The parent company of the Mrs. Fields cookie chain and TCBY frozen yogurt chain plans to move its headquarters from Salt Lake City to Broomfield, Colo.

Posted: 11:40 AM Capt. Francis Gary Powers is being posthumously awarded the Silver Star at the Pentagon for his loyalty while being held captive by the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

Posted: 6:03 PM The Food and Drug Administration is urging food distributors, retailers and food service vendors to remove from the market all shellfish imported from South Korea because of possible contamination with human waste and norovirus.

Posted: 10:39 AM The Finnish gaming company behind Angry Birds has opened its Shanghai office and outlined plans for activity parks and stores across China, one of its biggest markets.

Posted: 10:34 AM The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is urging motorcyclists not to wear the 5X5 brand, SA-08 model motorcycle helmet because it fails to meet federal head protection requirements.

Posted: 11:27 AM Scientists have mapped the several pounds of microbes living on and inside the human body.

Posted: 9:39 AM House Republicans are reserving more than $18 million in ad time as they look to protect their majority.

Posted: 11:38 AM The Obama administration says Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and is warning about a dramatic escalation in the Arab country's 15-month conflict.

Posted: 11:36 AM Burger King wants to lure customers this summer with a barbecue party -- and a 510 calorie bacon sundae.

Posted: 4:32 PM The Nobel Foundation has decided to reduce the prize money of each of the six Nobel awards by 20 percent.

Posted: 10:19 AM The FBI says the number of violent crimes reported to police fell 4 percent last year when compared to 2010 and the number of property crimes went down 0.8 percent.

Posted: 12:14 PM A wealthy Texas woman faces charges that she collected and traded child pornography in what experts say is a rare case of a woman engaging in such activity.

Posted: 11:31 PM Debbie Clemens has taken the stand at the perjury trial of her husband, Roger Clemens.