Apple is limiting pre-orders to two per customer. Shipping is free, and as the device will arrive on April 3rd in stores, those who have Saturday delivery in their area will receive it that day.

WTC Captive Insurance Co., a victims' fund set up after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, reached a settlement of as much as $657 million with 10,000 workers claiming respiratory illness stemming from rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site.

Keep America Safe group draws backlash after dubbing lawyers who defended terrorist suspects 'al-Qaida seven' Liz Cheney and her organisation have called lawyers who acted for accused terrorists the "al-Qaida seven".

Not long after the Twin Towers fell, Dick Cheney declared the death of more than two centuries of American tradition. "It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws," he said. The then vice-president did his best to follow through by riding roughshod over the constitution and international laws by promoting torture, indefinite detention without trial and support for secretive military tribunals in which defendants were stripped of many of their rights.

Americans regained more of their shrunken wealth last quarter, mainly because of gains in stock portfolios. The Federal Reserve reported Thursday that household net worth rose 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, to $54.2 trillion. Net worth rose 4.5 percent in the second quarter and 5.5 percent in the third. The value of stocks rose nearly 4 percent in the period, to $7.7 trillion. Higher home prices helped a bit: Real estate holdings edged up 0.2 percent.

Americans' net worth would have to rise 21 percent more to get back to its pre-recession peak of $65.9 trillion. .

Go to bed early Saturday night or you'll lose an hour of sleep Sunday morning when daylight-saving time begins.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., explains Thursday he will offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.

President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken.

Constance McMillen didn't believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.

President Barack Obama set up a new high-level agency on Thursday that will help promote U.S. products overseas, part of a strategy to double U.S. exports in five years.

The newly created Export Promotion Cabinet will hold its first meeting in April, and includes representatives from the departments of State, Agriculture, and Commerce, among others.

Americans are less concerned about the threat of climate change than they were two years ago and almost half say the seriousness of global warming is overblown, a Gallup Organization Inc.

Diana Gomez, center, and Garrett Mize, right, and other University of Texas students rallied against conservatives at a State Board of Education meeting Wednesday in Austin, Tex.