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Efforts to clean up a 168,000 gallons of thick, viscous oil that spilled into the Port of Houston near Galveston, Texas, stretched into a third day Tuesday, as wildlife rescuers sought to estimate the impact on birds and marine life.

Food costs more, according to a new report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which says prices are up 0.4 percent in the first month of this year.

    

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that his biggest worry remains a scenario in which terrorists would be able to obtain dangerous nuclear materials and set off a bomb in New York City.

The U.K. government said it's going to sell another stake of its holdings in Lloyds Banking Group .

The Virginia Department of Forestry has awarded $108,000 in grants to 24 local governments and citizen groups for tree-planting programs.

Mary Virginia Jones was released from prison early Tuesday after serving 32 years for a 1981 murder committed by her then-boyfriend.

    

The death toll from the Washington mudslide is expected to rise Tuesday, but the fire chief said some victims may never be found.
    

The death toll from the Washington mudslide is expected to rise Tuesday, but the fire chief said some victims may never be found.

Dozens of vehicles collide on Highway 55 near Mendota Heights, Minn., Monday afternoon. One person was sent to the hospital.

Canadian officials investigating a man suspected of having contracted Ebola during a visit to West Africa say it has been determined he does not have the virus.

West African nations scrambled on Tuesday to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 in Guinea, with people presenting symptoms of the disease reported in neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The woman accused of steering a minivan with her three kids inside into the ocean off Florida will stay in a hospital psychiatric unit, but will no longer be in solitary confinement.
    

A federal jury on Tuesday began considering the fate of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, a Kuwaiti clergyman who became al-Qaeda's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks and warned in widely circulated videos that the "storm of airplanes" would not end.
    

Chile's northern coast has been hit by more than 300 earthquakes in the past week in what seismologists warned Tuesday could be the precursor to a long-overdue disaster.