11:45 a.m. EST November 12, 2014 BEIJING — After the leaders of the world's two largest economies walked, talked and dined together during several hours of official and less formal bilateral meetings this week in Beijing, they capped it off Wednesday with an incredibly rare news conference.

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HREVEPORT, La. — Employees in at least 112 state agencies wasted more than a half-million dollars purchasing non-refundable airline tickets that were allowed to expire and lose value, a recent Office of State Inspector General's report found.

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12:49 a.m. EDT October 29, 2014  PHOENIX — The prosecution in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial finished its summary of the facts of the murder Tuesday with a sputtering exchange of objections as jurors viewed and listened to X-rated evidence for a fifth day in a row.

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10:15 p.m. EDT September 25, 2014  WASHINGTON — President Obama will sit down Friday for another 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft.

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Craig Spencer, who tested positive for Ebola Thursday, is a New York emergency physician who recently worked with Doctors Without Borders treating patients in West Africa.

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11:32 p.m. EDT September 24, 2014  A convergence of events has pushed the trademark gridlock and traffic in New York City to new levels, so much so that even hardened commuters and taxi drivers are finding it hard to come up with routes to skirt through the mess.

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10:25 p.m. EDT October 8, 2014   WASHINGTON — A wave of coalition airstrikes on Wednesday helped blunt an Islamic State offensive on Kobani, the besieged city on the Syrian-Turkish border where Kurdish forces are holding out against the militants.

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WASHINGTON — President Obama said Wednesday he is prepared to order airstrikes on Syrian territory as part of an expanded counter-terrorism plan to confront the Islamic State jihadist group that is operating in both Syria and Iraq.

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