The move ends a ban that's existed throughout the organization's 103-year history, but the reversal does not extend to openly gay adults, who are still not allowed to serve as scoutmasters or participate in other leadership roles.

President Barack Obama said the broad war powers Congress approved to fight al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks shouldn't continue forever and that he's reining in drone strikes and paving the way to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

GREENVILLE, Calif., May 24 (UPI) -- More than a dozen aftershocks were felt after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake shook a remotely populated area in the Sierras in Northern California, officials said.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has cut a ribbon to symbolically reopen the state's shore for the summer season, seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy.

Officer Michael A. Dotro has been arrested in the firebombing of Captain Mark Anderko's home. Friday, May 24, 2013 | Updated 6:50 AM EDT.

President Obama is scheduled to address the U.S. Naval Academy's graduating class of 2013 on Friday morning, his second commencement speech in Annapolis since taking office.

BOSTON (AP) - Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Edward Markey agreed Thursday to release his tax returns dating back to 2005, one more year than was previously released by his opponent Gabriel Gomez, in a day of campaigning in which money from ...

For example, an analysis of storms over the past 100 years shows Florida was hit most frequently (21 times) by Category 1 systems.

And Blake Shelton has a date for his benefit concert. Carrie Underwood performs at Sprint Center on May 1 in Kansas City, Missouri.

WASHINGTON - Deputy Solicitor Gen. Sri Srinivasan, a rising star in legal circles, won an easy and unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to the U.S.

Panel denied Dalton Smith's request for early release in 2011. hofstra suspect. Dalton Smith, 30, of Hempstead, N.Y. was identified as the gunman who also was shot to death in the May 17 break-in near Hofstra University.

On the day that students from the Plaza Towers Elementary gathered for the first time since a monster hit their school Monday, principal Amy Simpson couldn't turn around without someone wanting to hug her and say thanks.

PHOENIX - The jury in Jodi Arias' murder trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a verdict against the woman they convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend in a case that captured headlines worldwide with its sex, lies, violence.

The evidence that George Zimmerman's attorneys have uncovered on Trayvon Martin's cellphone paints a troubling picture of the Miami Gardens teenager: He sent text messages about being a fighter, smoking marijuana and being ordered to move out of his ...

Residents can now get into their devastated neighborhoods without passing through police checkpoints. Meanwhile, there's word that insurance policies may cover less of the cost of damages than in past disasters.

A Denver-based court's decision on whether Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. may refuse to provide contraceptive coverage to employees under the federal health care reform law may hinge on whether for-profit companies have the same rights as nonprofits and sole ...

Gov. Paul LePage says he'll move out of the Maine State House because he can't have a television with a political message in the Hall of Flags.