A civil rights organization says it has identified at least 50 new right-wing militia groups that have formed within the last two years, in part coinciding with the advent of the Obama administration.

There are signs of recovery in the nation's heartland, including Elkhart, Ind., but the rebound is faint, uneven and faces many threats.

For Lawrie Covey and millions of other unemployed workers, life remains a day-to-day struggle. Instead of working on RVs in a factory, she may soon be living in one.

The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free Thanksgiving dinners across New York  — meals cooked by a ritzy caterer and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.

NYT: Students ejected from football games at the University of Minnesota are entered in a first-of-its-kind program, which requires them to meet with a counselor. After that, those who fail a game-day breath analyzer, or enter the stadium without submitting to the test, lose their season tickets.

A jury is deliberating the fate of a black schoolteacher charged with assaulting white police officers responding to a disturbance at a Walmart store in Missouri.

A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba plead guilty in federal court.

An independent panel says the U.S. can extend the life of aging nuclear weapons for decades with existing programs.

A judge's decision to move Johannes Mehserle's murder trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit police officer charged with gunning down an unarmed man on New Year's Day.

A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.

A former stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from a narcissistic disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court.

NYT:  The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style attack.

A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, arrest warrant says.

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A 17-year-old Mexican immigrant has pleaded guilty in San Diego to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in July.

An Arizona family is pleading with burglars to return a wooden music box containing the ashes of their 5-month old son.

A foot model in New York City is suing her upscale apartment building, claiming the co-op board is trying to force her out because she married its former doorman.

Descendants of 14 bison shipped to Santa Catalina Island in 1924 to make a Western movie have multiplied so much that a conservation group is about to give females birth control injections.

The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.