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A day after Republicans signaled possible compromise with the White House on energy issues, President Barack Obama called Thursday for Congress to vote in the coming weeks on ending billions of dollars in subsidies for the oil industry.

President Barack Obama hosted a dinner to salute soldiers recently back from Iraq -- marking his first major tribute to the veterans since officially withdrawing all troops from the nation.

The charges against T.J. Lane include three counts of aggravated murder. Victims' relatives also held a news conference and shared memories of the slain students.

With the governor's signature on Thursday, Maryland will be the latest state to legalize gay marriage.

A disabled Italian cruise ship, the Costa Allegra, reached port in the Seychelles Thursday.

The two French journalists had been trapped in the besieged Baba Amr neighborhood. One of them was wounded in an attack last week that killed an American reporter.

Maryland became the eighth U.S. state to allow same-sex marriage Thursday as Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation he said secures the "human dignity" of all residents, including gay and lesbian couples.

There's one change that hasn't gotten enough notice: the increasing importance of lateral social networking on the part of grass-roots conservatives.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals announced Thursday that it will not render an opinion on the challenges to tough laws against illegal immigration in Georgia and Alabama. The appeals court will let the Supreme Court first make a decision in a case regarding a similar law in Arizona.

Mitt Romney won the Wyoming caucuses as the Republican presidential campaign headed toward next week's Super Tuesday showdown, with one candidate acknowledging Thursday he needs a victory to keep his campaign alive.

Campaign workers distributed campaign leaflets and plastered candidate posters along the Iranian capital's tree-lined streets in the final days before Friday's parliamentary elections.

William Bennett says even the candidate is bullish on his fundraising and growing organization and ready to pivot away from social issues to economy

In a 19-page ruling, a federal judge has tossed a mandate requiring tobacco companies to place graphic images on their products warning of the dangers of smoking.

Republican leaders and the White House sent signals Wednesday of possible detente on jobs and energy legislation, but they offered few specifics and congressional Democrats questioned whether any progress would ensue.

Officials in the resort city of Branson, Missouri, were relieved an EF2 tornado, which damaged some of its marquee musical theaters, struck before the prime tourist season began.

A powerful storm system that started in the Midwest, leaving at least 12 people dead, moved Wednesday evening into the mid-Atlantic region, where it spawned at least two confirmed tornadoes.

Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline is no worry for T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire energy investor from Texas. He drives from his home to his office in a car that runs on fuel costing less than a dollar a gallon

Davy Jones, whose charming grin and British accent won the hearts of millions of fans on the 1960s television series "The Monkees," died Wednesday, according to the Martin County, Florida, sheriff's office. He was 66.

"We didn't win by a lot -- but we won by enough, and that's all that counts," Mitt Romney said Tuesday night after victories in the Michigan and Arizona primaries. Yet even in a cycle where he's already endured far more do-or-die contests than expected, these wins may be his most valuable yet.