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Fifty years after getting married, a New Mexico couple celebrated by skydiving. Alan Dodd wanted to do something different to mark their golden anniversary. His wife Pat needed some convincing. She gave in because as she told Albuquerque's KRQE TV, retirement has given the couple time to do "crazy things."

Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York have begun what they say will be a day full of marches, civil disobedience and other actions aimed at — this is their goal — shutting down Wall Street.

If a congressional supercommittee fails to agree on $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, it could trigger automatic across-the-board cuts in spending. Both conservatives and liberals fear the cuts could be draconian. But others say the automatic trigger is the only real hope for curbing government spending.

As Wall Street employees make their way to work, the conflict at the center of the protest is on full display.

From 720,000 in the year 1980 to more than 1.9 million in 2010, the number of Americans who are 90 years of age or older has nearly tripled, the Census Bureau reports today in its first comprehensive look at the over-90 population.

Kevin Whitehead says this Davis quintet was consistently amazing, not least on its last big tour.

The team will move from the National League to the American. Also, Major League Baseball is adding one "wild card" team to each league's playoffs.

Officials say an underground neo-Nazi group is responsible for the murders of nine immigrants and a policewoman, a string of bank robberies and a bombing over the past 13 years. Now, Germans are asking questions about the apparent shortcomings of the state security services.

Republicans are attacking President Obama for calling Americans "lazy." Is that really what the president said?

The number of children adopted from abroad has dropped by 60 percent over the past few years. Concerns about corruption are causing many countries to limit or abolish programs that have allowed needy children to be adopted by Americans.