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The number of newly laid-off workers requesting jobless benefits fell slightly last week for the third straight week. But initial claims remain above levels that would signal net job gains.

The American terror suspect known as "Jihad Jane" is due in federal court in Philadelphia today.

The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children.

The father of 9 and 11-year-old siblings who helped deliver their baby brother at their Fremont home is calling his kids "super heroes."

Volunteers have filled a million sandbags as residents of Fargo, N.D., and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., keep a wary eye on the rising Red River.

Virginia Tech is urging calm as e-mails and Internet postings originating in Italy threaten another attack on campus.

A surplus store in Dallas is supposed to sell desks, chairs and ladders owned by the city, not drugs.

CIA director Leon Panetta says the stepped-up attacks by the U.S. has driven Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders deeper into hiding.

A Toyota spokesman says a Prius that crashed into a stone wall in the New York suburbs is yielding data on engine speed and pedal position.

FBI Director Robert Mueller says the man suspected of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas is cooperating with investigators.