NEW YORK (AP) — The Empire State Building's owner lost his bid to stop a new skyscraper from rising in the neighborhood when the New York City Council approved zoning and land use changes Wednesday... » Full Story

CHICAGO (AP) — Two gators in the Chicago River. One strolling down a Massachusetts street. Another in bustling New York City. And that's just in the past few weeks. » Full Story

HOUSTON (AP) — Federal investigators probing the blowout that led to the Gulf oil spill grilled a Halliburton official Tuesday about concerns the petroleum services firm raised over the potential fo... » Full Story

THEODORE, Ala. (AP) — Five people were hospitalized in intensive care Tuesday as federal investigators sought the cause of an ammonia leak a day earlier in a plant that freezes chickens. » Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shirley Sherrod, ousted from the Agriculture Department during a racial firestorm that embarrassed the Obama administration, rejected an offer to return to the USDA on Tuesday. » Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's massive stimulus measure has created or saved as many as 3. » Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post says the CIA believes Yemen's branch of al-Qaida has surpassed its parent organization, Osama bin Laden's core group in Pakistan, as a threat to the U.S. » Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government will quickly appeal a court ruling that undercut federally funded embryonic stem cell research, the Obama administration declared Tuesday, but dozens of experiments... » Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain sailed to nomination for a fifth Senate term Tuesday over an Arizona challenger with tea party support, while big-spending political novice Rick Scott beat an insider i... » Full Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration officials said Monday that there is no evidence a massive outbreak of salmonella in eggs has spread beyond two Iowa farms, though a team of... » Full Story