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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Decisive victories for ballot proposals cutting retirement benefits for government workers in two of the largest cities in the U.S. emboldened advocates seeking to curb pensions in state capitols and city halls across the nation....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Decisive victories for ballot proposals cutting retirement benefits for government workers in two of the largest cities in the U.S. emboldened advocates seeking to curb pensions in state capitols and city halls across the nation....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge in Manhattan joined a growing chorus of judges across the country Wednesday by striking down a key component of a federal law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge in Manhattan joined a growing chorus of judges across the country Wednesday by striking down a key component of a federal law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge in Manhattan joined a growing chorus of judges across the country Wednesday by striking down a key component of a federal law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Well, it's that time of year again. Time to stash a dead fish somewhere to stink up the school hallways. Time to drop tennis balls on the heads of people in the lobby. Time to cover your soon-to-be alma mater with Post-It notes....

ISTANBUL (AP) -- The United States and its allies in Europe, Turkey and the Arab world have agreed to work on a political transition plan for Syria, hoping to persuade President Bashar Assad's powerful ally Russia to join a broadened diplomatic effort to ease the embattled leader out of power, a senior U.S. official said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the World War II Memorial as a backdrop, veterans Josephine and Murray Bussard shared a kiss from their wheelchairs as they commemorated the 68th anniversary of D-Day, and celebrated almost as many years of marriage....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the World War II Memorial as a backdrop, veterans Josephine and Murray Bussard shared a kiss from their wheelchairs as they commemorated the 68th anniversary of D-Day, and celebrated almost as many years of marriage....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Big Tobacco's success in branding a proposed California cigarette tax as a government boondoggle sent a message that could echo in other states as votes trended toward the opposition....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservative House Republicans are again going after President Barack Obama's budget to regulate Wall Street, build rural water projects and send food aid overseas as the latest in a series of spending bills get under way....

HAVERHILL, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced Wednesday to spend a year in jail for a fatal traffic accident that happened while he was texting....

HAVERHILL, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced Wednesday to spend a year in jail for a fatal traffic accident that happened while he was texting....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw....

A nearly 70-foot-long dock that floated ashore on an Oregon beach was torn loose from a fishing port in northern Japan by last year's tsunami and drifted across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean, a Japanese Consulate official said Wednesday....