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JACKSON, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan teen finishing off his Arby's roast beef sandwich chomped down on something tough that tasted like rubber, so he spit it out....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the United States and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 international troops pull out. The alliance's plans for arm's-length support for Afghanistan will be a central focus of the summit President Barack Obama is hosting Sunday and Monday in Chicago....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- A prosecutor used John Edwards' own stump speech against him in closing arguments at his corruption trial Thursday, saying the presidential candidate violated campaign finance laws meant to protect "the two Americas" in order to cover up a lurid sex scandal....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law....

Twirling her leopard-print dress on stage in the `70s, proudly holding many of her music awards and performing in recent years on "American Idol", Donna Summer was the ultimate disco queen...

BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- A medical examiner in suburban New York says the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. died of asphyxiation due to hanging....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's health care law, it wouldn't just be politicians dealing with the fallout....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Prosecutors are saying in closing arguments in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial that he was part of a politically ambitious scheme to take money from wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying it can no longer wait for Congress to decide how to cut postal costs....

NEW YORK (AP) -- President Obama's campaign is calling on Mitt Romney to push back harder against plans by a conservative-leaning independent group to showcase Obama's ties to his controversial pastor....

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- A gunman surrendered after barricading himself inside a landmark restaurant in a standoff that closed parts of the 18th-century city's historic district for more than three hours Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, suggesting modest but steady gains in the job market....

FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A man accused in a deadly series of stabbings in Michigan is a paranoid schizophrenic who had delusions that "evil forces" were directing him to hurt others, a psychiatrist testified Thursday as attorneys launched an insanity defense....

FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Elias Abuelazam dutifully tended the cash register at a party store for $10 an hour. But after punching out, according to police, he was a different, dangerous guy, repeatedly faking car trouble in the wee hours then stabbing strangers who responded to his appeal for help....

BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- Mary Richardson Kennedy's life had both highlights and troubled moments, and they played out publicly because of the famous political family she married into in 1994....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Lost in the hoopla over the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker after he took on union rights is an ongoing secret investigation that has already ensnared a handful of the Republican governor's former aides....

STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) -- The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity....

STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) -- The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity....

DENVER (AP) -- Troy Anderson is a mentally ill inmate in isolation at the Colorado State Penitentiary, deemed for more than a decade too dangerous to be among other offenders....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Armando Rodriguez was warned several times to continue taking his tuberculosis medicine....