After the recall of more than 500 million eggs from a salmonella outbreak this summer, food safety advocates and survivors of foodborne illness will call for the U.S. Senate to pass a bill that has been in limbo since last year.

The United Nations on Tuesday acknowledged that it first learned of a report of rape in rebel-held territory of the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on July 30, nearly two weeks earlier than it had previously said.

BP is on Wednesday expected to release findings of an internal investigation into the Gulf oil disaster, the oil giant said.

Firefighters in Detroit, Michigan, grappled with 85 fires in a four-hour period Tuesday night, officials said.

A former soldier arrested after a hostage incident at a Georgia military base is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.

Tropical Depression Hermine is expected to dump an onslaught of rain in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri over the next few days.

Authorities have begun an investigation after a threatening message was found scrawled on the lavatory mirror of a Thai Airways plane, the Transportation Security Administration said.

Shows at SeaWorld in San Diego, California, are expected to resume on schedule Wednesday, a day after a 12-year-old male killer whale died.

Eighteen people died in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at a shoe factory in San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras, police said.

The imam behind a controversial Islamic center near New York's ground zero broke his silence Tuesday, hours after a coalition of leaders denounced anti-Muslim bigotry.

A former soldier arrested after a hostage incident at a military base in Georgia faces multiple charges that include threatening to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, according to federal court documents filed Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Hermine is heading north after making landfall near Brownsville, Texas. The storm has 45 mph winds and may cause local flooding.

A 12-year-old male killer whale, who showed signs of being ill only the day before, died Tuesday afternoon at SeaWorld in San Diego, California, the park announced.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Fiji Islands, Wednesday at 4:13 a.m. (12:13 p.m. ET Tuesday), the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

A fleet of aircraft is being deployed to help put out a fast-moving wildfire near Boulder, Colorado, that has forced about 3,500 residents to evacuate.

The pending rescue of the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine will only be the beginning of the miners' ordeal, NASA officials told Chilean authorities on a recent visit.

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will stay in a Utah jail for at least two more months after his attorneys objected to his signing an extradition waiver in a Utah court Tuesday.

Users of Google's search page were greeted Tuesday with a screen of colorful, interactive dots, even though the company didn't immediately explain why.

The man who killed former Beatle John Lennon was denied parole for the sixth time, officials said. Mark David Chapman is next eligible for a parole interview in 2012.