26 May. 20123:20 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe.

26 May. 20123:20 AM ET

NEW YORK (AP) — The anniversary of the day 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished on his way to school dawned with his suspected killer in police custody, but it ended with a muddled portrait of the man who confessed to strangling the little boy and dumping his body in the trash.

26 May. 20122:47 AM ET

BANGKOK (AP) — Protests in Myanmar over persistent power shortages have provided a test of how the country's elected but military-backed government will respond to rising expectations sparked by the past year's democratic reforms.

25 May. 20123:41 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) — More Americans will hit the road this holiday weekend than a year ago. And they'll have a bit more money to spend thanks to lower gas prices.

26 May. 20123:26 AM ET

ROME (AP) — They twirled, they sniffed, they slurped, they chewed.

25 May. 20124:34 PM ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The private company SpaceX made history Friday with the docking of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the most impressive feat yet in turning routine spaceflight over to the commercial sector.

26 May. 20122:15 AM ET

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical storm warnings have been issued for the Southeast coast from north Florida to South Carolina as a cluster of thunderstorms was gathering strength early Saturday and expected to become Tropical Storm Beryl over the Memorial Day weekend.

25 May. 20125:38 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) — Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs.

26 May. 20123:21 AM ET

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco's glittering Mawazine international music festival wraps up this weekend with performances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, after nine days of showcasing the North African kingdom's cool factor — even as dissident Moroccan musicians are imprisoned for their anti-establishment lyrics.