The judge overseeing the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting case has agreed to hold a hearing over defense claims that the government has twice violated a gag order. In the first motion filed Tuesday, public defenders for James Holmes argue that an updated mugshot of Holmes-without......

Watch live coverage from Denver of the first presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney on foreign policy.
Turkey fires artillery at Syria after 5 civilians killed in Turkish border village
Family whose child was sickened shares story.
New Mexican middle class buying American and boosting U.S. economy.
Los Angeles police are investigating a possible break-in at Ashton Kutcher‘s Hollywood Hills home this morning. “We did receive a call of a home invasion robbery and three people have been detained,” a spokesman for the LAPD told ABC News today. Police did not say...
Lenovo will start making some of its computers in the U.S. in early 2013. It will create over 100 new jobs, the company says.
The Philadelphia cop caught punching a woman in the face will be fired, according to ABC News' Philadelphia station WPVI.
If you’re at a loss when it comes to a Halloween costume, paleontologist Dr. Paul C. Sereno has a suggestion: try a new rare, miniature dinosaur species called pegomastax. “The pegomastax is a cutie,” Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago, told ABC News...
Scientists in the U.K. are working on a buzzworthy project that will scan the brains of bees and then build models of them, creating robots that will act like the real thing. The goal of the $1.61 million study, called “Green Brain,” is to create a robotic...
Student who was 'cured' of same-sex feelings sues the state medical board for law that bans conversion therapies for minors.
The parents of an Indiana boy allege that their 8-year-old son was the victim "horrific and ghastly" sexual abuse by his second-grade classmates. The parents say the boys acted out scenes from pornographic videos that they watched at school without supervision.
He was exhausted, sweaty and pale. His shirt was one size too big and five shades too light. And after a full day of campaigning, he was tired and anxious, all things a candidate does not want to be during his first televised presidential debate. ...
The U.S. birth rate continued its decline in 2011, according to a preliminary report from the Centers for Disease Control, and researchers link a part of the downturn in births to the economy. Last year, the number of births hit a record low after declining...