AP 2011-05-01

1. Southeast Missouri has received 15 inches of rain in the past four days. It's proving to be too much for a levee that's keeping a swollen river from inundating the town of Poplar Bluff. It has cracked in at least one spot. But authorities say it p

AP 2011-05-02

1. The White House released President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate today, which says he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama says he hopes this will quiet the questions around his citizenship and qualifications to be president. 2. At lea

AP 2011-05-03

1. President Barack Obama will travel to Alabama on Friday to meet with families devastated by the deadliest tornadoes in nearly four decades. Nearly 300 people are dead in the south after a storm that spawned dozens of twisters wiped out towns acros

AP 2011-05-05

1. The White House says US forces who killed Osama bin Laden would have taken him alive if they had the chance. Since he fought back, he was killed. US officials say bin Laden went down firing at Navy SEALs. 2. The killing of bin Laden has parts of t

AP 2011-05-06

1. The White House is debating releasing graphic pictures of Osama Bin Laden's dead body. There is also unreleased video of his burial at sea. Meanwhile President Obama will visit Ground Zero in New York Thursday. 2. Across northeastern Arkansas they

AP 2011-05-07

1. New details on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The White House says bin Laden was not armed when he was confronted by US commandos but did try to resist. Officials also say one of bin Laden's wives tried to rush the commandos and was shot in

AP 2011-05-08

1. President Barack Obama says releasing photos of Osama Bin Laden's body could pose a national security risk. The White House says the president ultimately decided he did not want to make available graphic photos that could become a propaganda tool.

AP 2011-05-09

1. Just days after the death of Osama Bin Laden, the victims of 9/11 have been remembered. President Barack Obama laid a wreath at Ground Zero. Vice President Joe Biden led a similar ceremony at the Pentagon. 2. The record-high Mississippi River cont

AP 2011-05-10

1. The Pentagon has released five silent videos it says it seized from Osama Bin Laden's compound. Most show him giving statements into a camera, but another shows him sitting on the floor watching TV, flipping to different channels that were showing

AP 2011-05-04

1. Daylight video shows the area around the compound where Osama Bin Laden was killed during a US raid in Pakistan. President Barack Obama announced the raid last night from the White House, saying no Americans were hurt in the operation. Bin Laden's

AP 2011-05-22

[1]Officials say IMF chief Dominic Strauss-Khan is on suicide watch in his New York jail. He's charged with sexual assaulting a hotel maid. Meanwhile financial leaders are intensifying calls for him to resign. [2]The government says more older Americ

AP 2011-05-21

1. The lawyer for a hotel maid who accused International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual abuse says she is telling the truth. Lawyer Jeffrey Shapiro says the maid is an immigrant from West Africa, who has a 15-year-old daughter.

AP 2011-05-23

1. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he believes somebody in Pakistan knew Osama bin Laden was hiding there, but there is still no evidence top leadership in the country was aware. 2. Sanctions for Syria from the United States, applying them to the

AP 2011-04-02

1. A defense official says the US has unleashed a barrage of cruise missiles at Libyan targets yesterday and today. However, the Libyan government says its tanks and rockets have driven back rebels who attempted an assault on Muammar Gaddafis hometow

AP 2011-04-16

1. President Barack Obama has outlined his ideas on ways to cut national spending. The president wants to cut four trillion dollars over a dozen years, through cuts in the growth of Medicare spending, cuts in defense and an end to some tax loopholes,

AP 2011-04-17

1. Congress is set to vote today on last week's budget deal which last until September. Next, lawmakers will start the budget battle for 2012, which maybe a tougher fight than this fight that almost shut down the government. Republican and White Hous

AP 2011-04-18

1. Congress is moving forward with passing this year's budget. The House has approved a 38-billion-dollar package of spending cuts. House Speaker John Boehner says this deal is a move in the right direction. 2. The head of the Federal Aviation Admini

AP 2011-04-19

1. More than a dozen deaths are being blamed on a series of severe storms that have ripped through the South. Tornadoes spotted across the region. Fatalities are being reported in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma. 2. The government is chan

AP 2011-04-22

1. Stocks plunged as Standard Poor's Rating Service lowered the long term outlook on US debt to negative from stable. SP says it has little confidence that Washington will produce a deficit reduction plan before the 2012 elections. 2. North Carolina

AP 2011-04-20

1. The confirmed death toll from wild storms in North Carolina has risen to more than 20. In Bladen County alone, 82 homes were damaged and 25 destroyed. At least 43 people died in three days of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Virginia. 2. New work rules