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Over 130 "geriatric prisoners" who were serving life sentences are leaving Maryland prisons owing to a ruling by the state's highest court affecting criminal cases before 1980.

The fight over who will nominate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's successor intensified Tuesday after President Obama said he intended to nominate the next justice. But on Wednesday, Senate Republicans seemed to back away from initial calls for the next president to name Scalia's successor.

U.S. military health care covers the high cost of in vitro fertilization, but the Veterans Affairs health system doesn't. The discrepancy is putting vets with combat injuries in a bind.

A field officer for the the aid organization Mercy Corps in northern Syria describes the daunting humanitarian mission on the ground. Mohammed wouldn't give his last name for fear of being a target.

The Army has come up with a pizza that has a three-year shelf life. The MRE pizza is billed as tasting like pizza at its best — that is, a day old.

When rain struck Monday, they wrapped the large snowman in plastic and put an umbrella on his head. They want to make him last through warmer weather, and are asking for people to send snow.

The boxer has apologized "for hurting people by comparing homosexuals to animals," but he also reiterated that he was merely going by "what the Bible says."

Papers seized from Communist ex-minister's house include an agreement by Walesa to collaborate, and receipts for money signed with his alleged code name, the Institute of National Remembrance says.

Paul Clement, who clerked for Scalia on the Supreme Court and went on to argue dozens of cases before the court — and Scalia — as solicitor general, remembers the judge who died Saturday.

The "cessation of hostilities" was supposed to take hold Friday but doesn't appear imminent as consultations continue. But badly needed humanitarian aid has arrived for some 80,000 people.