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George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin spurred emotional reaction around the country.

Some companies offer employees one-on-one financial counseling. The service can be revealing.

When President Obama took office, he rarely invoked the Bush name unless it was to assign blame. Today, he more often mentions the family in admiration. When former President George H.W. Bush visits the White House on Monday, it will be Obama's third Bush meeting in three months.

As investigators look for what caused last weekend's train crash in Canada, a question is emerging across the border in the U.S.: Could it happen here? Transportation safety officials have warned railroads for years about the types of tanker cars involved in the Lac-Megantic accident. But they are still widely used in Canada and the U-S.

The frequency of severe storms is focusing new scrutiny on whether to build in coastal, flood-prone areas. That's a question facing city leaders in Norwalk, Conn., a city on Long Island Sound. They're hoping to upgrade a public housing project using federal dollars.

As the not-guilty verdict set in, protesters took to the streets and thinkers asked the big questions.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald said "NSA leaker" Edward Snowden collected thousands of documents to prove that what he is revealing is true. Some of them, Greenwald told The Associated Press, show exactly how the U.S. spy agency works.

The revelations are another blow to a sport that's been marred by doping. Tyson Gay, one of the athletes who failed a drug test, was a best-hope sprinter for the United States. He said he did not "have a sabotage story."

KTVU-TV aired offensive names that it says were confirmed by a summer intern working for the National Transportation Safety Board.

A genre-defining exhibition on view in Washington, D.C., says one thing about war: It's constant.