DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators fined Japan's Takata Corp. $70 million Tuesday for concealing evidence for years that its air bags are prone to explode with grisly consequences... READ MORE »

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities will announce that a northern Illinois police officer whose shooting death led to a massive manhunt in September killed himself, an official briefed on the... READ MORE »

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Cabinet minister has drawn outrage and mockery after suggesting transferring the thousands of stray cats that walk the streets of Israel to another country. The Yediot... READ MORE »

BOSTON (AP) — It's 15,000 feet beneath the waves — deeper than the final resting place of the Titanic. What's involved in efforts to recover the data recorder of the cargo ship El Faro?... READ MORE »

The Vatican's new leaks scandal intensified Tuesday as a book detailed the mismanagement and internal resistance that has been thwarting Pope Francis' financial reform efforts. Citing... READ MORE »

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania man caused $4,000 in damage to parking meters he knocked down for the $30 in coins inside. Police say 51-year-old Allen Delgrosso was... READ MORE »

BOSTON (AP) — Moshe Kai Cavalin has two college degrees, but he's too young to vote. He flies airplanes, but he's too young to drive a car alone. Life is filled with contrasts for Cavalin,... READ MORE »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bouncing from politics to the big screen and back, Fred Thompson played many roles well and those who knew him say the folksy former U.S. senator won't soon be... READ MORE »

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An American Indian artist has filed a lawsuit against the city of Santa Fe in connection with what he says was a dog pooping accident mistaken for a burglary. The... READ MORE »

SALEM, N.J. (AP) — A southern New Jersey woman is headed to prison for beating another woman in front of her young child, an attack the toddler tried to stop by kicking his mother's... READ MORE »