Two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti's capital, staggering numbers have mounted. They tell of death, destruction and an outpouring of aid.

Home prices fell in November for the first time in seven months, according to a industry report released Tuesday.

Drivers of commercial trucks and buses will be prohibited from texting under federal guidelines that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today.

Sixty miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, an Air Force C-130 makes slow and lazy ovals over the Golfe de la Gonzave, a 264-foot weighted wire dangling from its belly like a plumb line.

Dr. Roberto Feliz and Dr. Hiba Georges were quickly jolted from the most modern of medical care in Boston, Massachusetts, to the most rudimentary of care when they flew to Haiti last week to work at a hospital housed in two tents run by the University of Miami.

Investigators continued their search Tuesday for a 7-year-old girl who was reported missing after her mother was found dead in Oklahoma.

A lab technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student pleaded not guilty today during a court hearing in New Haven, Connecticut, his attorney said.

Reeling from the death of her father, Nancy Kerrigan still mustered the strength to show the class and courtesy for which she is known in the skating world.

A commission set up to assess national security measures today gave the U.S. government a failing grade in improving response time to a biological attack.

Eighteen people were killed and 80 were wounded Tuesday when a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad, authorities said.

He's no Wyclef Jean or George Clooney, but that hasn't stopped seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from raising more than £100,000 ($161,000) for the Haiti earthquake.

Former child actor Gary Coleman remained in a Utah jail Monday after being booked on an outstanding arrest warrant relating to a domestic violence case, authorities said.

The smell of burning human flesh fouled the air in the Haitian capital's central plaza today as three bodies trapped in a crushed taxi were burned.

French lawmakers could recommend Tuesday that the fiercely secular country ban the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women.

President Obama will propose nearly doubling the child care tax credit for middle-class families Monday, according to a White House statement.

Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as Chemical Ali, was hanged today, a government spokesman said.

Ben Bernanke watch: 6 days and counting.

A briefing prepared by the top U.S. intelligence official in Afghanistan, and obtained by CNN, concludes the Taliban in Afghanistan is increasingly effective.

At least 36 people were killed and 71 hurt today in three vehicle bombings that rocked Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

So many doctors are answering Haiti's call for medical aid that the largest hospital in Port-au-Prince has a new problem: organizing and finding good use for them all.