PHOENIX (Reuters) - Convicted killer Jodi Arias testified on Tuesday that she can effect positive change in prison if jurors sentence her to a life term and spare her the death penalty for brutally killing her ex-boyfriend in Arizona five years ago. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed multiple times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face. ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.

Residents sift through the remnants of their homes and parents embrace children outside a demolished elementary school. Emergency workers tend to the wounded.

HAVANA (AP) — The meeting on a sunny Havana square was a little bit revolutionary for Cuba's revolution. And for U.S. diplomacy as well.

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft thinks it has the one.

PHOENIX (AP) — Jodi Arias has begun addressing the jury in the penalty phase of her trial as the panel considers whether to sentence her to life in prison or execution.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Commuters facing long delays after a train collision and derailment disrupted their route along Connecticut's shoreline can look forward to easier traveling beginning Tuesday afternoon.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (AP) — The boardwalks are back, and so are most of the beaches, even if some are a little thinner this year.

PHOENIX (AP) — Jodi Arias' expected statement to jurors has been delayed without explanation as she and her attorneys left the courtroom after meeting privately with the judge.

By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a request for the images by a conservative nonprofit watchdog group. Judicial Watch sued for photographs and video from the May 2011 raid in which U.S. ...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin says an Oklahoma suburb that was devastated by a deadly tornado will be rebuilt.