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The hurricane is expected to weaken and stay out to sea before grazing the Massachusetts coast Saturday.

A weakened Hurricane Earl brushed North Carolina's fragile Outer Banks with stiff winds and high waves Thursday night, striking a glancing blow before spinning offshore up the Eastern Seaboard.

Almost 200 have had a long break from testing that dates to NASA's early days, but that could end.

Ever since the first of their number arrived in New Mexico half a century ago as test subjects in the fledgling U.S. space program, nearly 200 government-owned chimpanzees were routinely injected with viruses and used to test everything from experimental vaccines to insecticides.

Daniel Millis had been charged for leaving gallon bottles of water for illegal border crossers in a U.S. desert wildlife preserve.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the littering conviction of an Arizona activist who left gallon-size bottles of water for illegal immigrants crossing into the United States through a desert wildlife preserve.

Houston-based Mariner Energy paid $55,000 in fines this summer after inspectors found safety violations. Four of the company's accidents resulted in worker injuries, records show.

Mariner Energy, which owns the platform that erupted in flames Thursday, has been involved in more than a dozen offshore accidents in the Gulf of Mexico in the last four years, including at least four fires and a well blowout, according to federal regulators.

The crew is rescued and there are no signs of a leak, but the accident sparks new debate about wells in the gulf.

The opening scene was all too familiar. Black smoke rising from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and workers plucked from the sea. But Thursday's fire on an oil production facility 100 miles off the Louisiana coast appears to have ended without disaster.

A new survey shows an average worker with a family plan pays nearly $4,000 a year, up 14% from 2009. Meanwhile, the average employer contribution to a family plan hasn't increased at all.

As employers struggle with rising healthcare costs and a sour economy, U.S. workers for the first time in at least a decade are being asked to shoulder the entire increase in the cost of health benefits on their own.

The majority of people who are now working after being laid off during the recession say they are overqualified for their current positions and are worse off financially, a survey finds.

A majority of people who were able to find work after being laid off during the recession say they are overqualified for their current position, according to a survey released by the Pew Research Center.

Andrew Breitbart, whose posting of video clips got a Department of Agriculture official fired, was a liberal Westside child of privilege whose political epiphany transformed him into a conservative.

The command center of Andrew Breitbart's growing media empire is a suite of offices on Sawtelle Boulevard in West Los Angeles with the temporary feel of a campaign office. Only the computers seem firmly anchored.

The Justice Department says Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio failed to turn over documents in its investigation into whether his department discriminated against Latinos while pursuing illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued a controversial and popular Arizona sheriff, alleging that his department was refusing to cooperate with an investigation into whether it discriminated against Latinos while trying to catch illegal immigrants.

Hurricane Earl packed winds near 125 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Canada on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.

Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia declare states of emergency, and the evacuation of the Outer Banks is underway.

Powerful Hurricane Earl spun toward the East Coast on Wednesday, driving tourists from North Carolina's vacation islands and threatening to bring damaging winds and waves to the Atlantic seaboard through Labor Day weekend.

Some families of service members killed in the war say the rules of engagement protect Afghan civilians at the expense of American troops. U.S. combat tolls have peaked this summer.

Bill and Beverly Osborn still can't bring themselves to erase the phone message from their son Ben. He had called from Afghanistan in June to assure them that he was safe. Four days later, he was killed in a Taliban ambush.

James J. Lee, who was protesting what he said was the network's promotion of overpopulation, was fatally shot by police after taking three people captive at the company headquarters in Maryland.

Police shot and killed a gunman after he took three people hostage Wednesday afternoon at the Discovery Channel's headquarters here, officials said.

The company spent more than $93 million to counter images of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. One lawmaker calls the spending 'insensitive' to those harmed by the well blowout.

As BP oil spread across the Gulf of Mexico this summer, the company spent more than $93 million on advertisements to counter images of the mounting disaster.

Two men arrested after flying from Chicago to Amsterdam are released and will not be charged. Tests on luggage initially showed possible traces of explosives, but that was later ruled out.

Two Yemenis who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam, where they were arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, were released Wednesday, Dutch officials said.

Meeting separately with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, on the eve of Israeli-Palestinian talks, he calls on them to seize the moment to craft a two-state plan.

President Obama began a new effort Wednesday to coax Israelis and Palestinians toward peace, telling Middle East leaders on the eve of renewed negotiations that with sustained American help, a comprehensive deal can be sealed within a year.

They decry the vitriol aimed at a planned Islamic center near ground zero.

Arrayed on the steps of City Hall, New York Muslim leaders Wednesday condemned the ugly rhetorical attacks aimed at Islam and its followers amid a national furor over a planned Islamic center two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Tea Party Express' success has come the old-fashioned way: It spent $600,000 on an advertising blitz that salvaged the campaign of Joe Miller and blindsided Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

The defeat of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's Republican primary is another notch in the belt for the Sacramento-based Tea Party Express, a project of Republican consultant Sal Russo.

The overall undocumented population also declines, a Pew Hispanic Center study says. Experts cite the recession and tougher border enforcement.

At a time when illegal immigration has returned to the political spotlight, figures released Wednesday show a sharp decline in the number of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. border, in what researchers are calling the "first significant reversal" in 20 years.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and GOP rival Sharron Angle have sparred over controversial remarks. Focusing on the past works for Reid but not as well for Angle, one observer says.

Sharron Angle is not running against only Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. She is also running against herself.

A second North Carolina county has ordered the evacuation of people on an Outer Banks island ahead of Hurricane Earl.

The West Wing office in the White House has new furnishings, all of which were U.S.-made. The changes, which represent President Obama's stamp on his office, came at no taxpayer expense.

While President Obama was on vacation, his West Wing office got a bit of a face-lift, complete with a new rug, fresh wallpaper and paint, and new furniture — all done at no taxpayer expense, according to the White House.

The House Ethics Committee will investigate campaign fundraising appeals to Wall Street firms ahead of a vote on financial regulatory legislation.

A congressional ethics watchdog has asked for a further probe of campaign fundraising appeals to Wall Street firms by Rep. John Campbell (R-Irvine) and two other House members before lawmakers voted on financial regulatory overhaul legislation.

She cites prior rulings that public officials cannot sue to block laws they don't want to enforce. Key provisions of SB1070 remain on hold, with arguments scheduled for November.

The federal judge who halted most of a controversial Arizona immigration law dismissed a separate lawsuit Tuesday that had been filed by a Tucson police officer.

With absentee and provisional ballots still being counted, the favored incumbent acknowledges she cannot make up enough votes to defeat 'tea party'-backed Joe Miller.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded the state's Republican primary to her "tea party"-backed rival Tuesday night, an outcome that illustrated voters' anger with the Washington establishment and the power of former Gov. Sarah Palin in her home state.

The incident involving the men, one of whom had suspicious items in his luggage and the other traveling on an expired visa, points up U.S. aviation's strengths and weaknesses, experts say.

U.S. officials announced Tuesday that two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam after a flight from Chicago will not face charges in this country, but experts said the case exposed the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. aviation security.

Declaring an end to the combat mission, he says the U.S. must now focus its shrunken resources on rebuilding its ailing economy.

President Obama marked the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq on Tuesday by declaring that after more than seven years, vast expenditures and thousands of casualties, the nation must focus its shrunken resources on rebuilding the ailing domestic economy.

Ten babies have died suddenly since January 2007 while living in base housing. All were younger than 8 months, and no sign of foul play was found in any of the deaths.

On April 15, 2009, Melissa Pollard's two-month-old son, Jay'Vair, stopped breathing and died inside military housing on this sprawling Army base.

People with a genetic predisposition to obesity can reduce their risk of being overweight by being physically active, researchers conclude.

Even people with a strong genetic predisposition to obesity can offset their risk of being overweight by being physically active, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine .

Brian Sandoval, the GOP candidate for governor, has come to symbolize a tension within his party, between efforts to attract Latino voters and actions that may repel them.

For years, Brian Sandoval has been a rising Republican star, a trailblazer touted as a symbol of the party's increasing diversity.