Wednesday May 16, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration declared Alzheimer’s one of the country’s biggest health challenges on Tuesday, adopting a national strategy that sets the clock ticking toward better treatments by 2025 -- along with help for suffering families today.   Full Story

Wednesday May 16, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The obesity epidemic may be slowing, but don’t take in those pants yet. Today, just over a third of U.S. adults are obese. By 2030, 42 percent will be, says a forecast released Monday. That’s not nearly as many as experts had predicted before the once-rapid rises in obesity rates began leveling off.   Full Story

Tuesday May 15, 2012 ALBANY, Calif. (AP) -- University of California police raided a four-week Occupy encampment at a college-owned farm used for agriculture research early Monday, arresting nine people after protesters ignored yet another weekend deadline to leave. About 100 officers clad in riot gear arrived shortly after 6 a.   Full Story

Tuesday May 15, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reality TV is giving birth to some of the most popular baby names. No, not Snooki. But Mason, as in Kourtney Kardashian’s son, jumped 10 spots to become the second most popular name for newborn boys in 2011. The more traditional Sophia is the new top name for girls, while Jacob is No.   Full Story

Tuesday May 15, 2012 AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- After 10 days in the hospital, a Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating infection isn’t letting the breathing tube in her throat stop her from mouthing questions such as "Where am I?" and "How long have I been here?" The parents of 24-year-old Aimee Copeland said Monday they know many more questions -- and much tougher   Full Story

Tuesday May 15, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday struck down new regulations governing union elections, saying the National Labor Relations Board did not follow proper voting procedures when it approved the rules last year. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said the board never had a quorum when it voted on the rules that speed up the pace of union representation   Full Story

Monday May 14, 2012 VIENNA (AP) -- A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there.   Full Story

Monday May 14, 2012 PAULINE ARRILLAGA AP National Writer YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-struggling Chevy plant endures. It is a place filled with union halls and blue-collar families for whom the auto bailout meant survival, delivered by a president many   Full Story

Saturday May 12, 2012 JESSE WASHINGTON and RACHEL ZOLL Associated Press How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have   Full Story

Saturday May 12, 2012 CHICAGO (AP) -- Condoms and other safe-sex practices have accomplished only so much. Now the 30-year battle against AIDS is on the verge of a radical new phase, with the government expected to endorse a once-a-day pill to prevent infection with the virus. Some doctors are already giving patients the drug, Truvada, to ward off infection.   Full Story

Saturday May 12, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA’s three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can remain shrouded in secrecy because it is a draft, not a finished product. The CIA characterized the volume in court papers as "a polemic of recriminations against CIA officers who later criticized the operation.   Full Story

Saturday May 12, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is updating its data use policy in an attempt to give people more clarity on how the company uses information they share. As part of the changes, Facebook is also signaling that it may start showing people ads on sites other than Facebook, targeting the pitches to interests and hobbies that users express on Facebook.   Full Story

Saturday May 12, 2012 RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Refocusing on the economy, President Barack Obama on Friday pushed Republicans to back housing policies the White House says would help shore up struggling homeowners and prevent foreclosures. Against the backdrop of a middle-class neighborhood in economically hard-hit Nevada, Obama touted steps his administration has already taken to help   Full Story

Saturday May 12, 2012 GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) -- Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had already killed their mother and sister, and he was armed with a pistol as officers closed in. Adam Mayes could have killed them days ago, could have left them in the woods as he fled for another   Full Story

Saturday May 12, 2012 ASHVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- The 14-year-old half-brother of an Alabama girl found hanging from a tree was charged with murder Friday in her death, authorities said. The body of Katelynn Arnold, 9, was discovered Thursday night outside her home in Ragland, a rural town about 40 miles northeast of Birmingham, said St.   Full Story