Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is reassessing whether to declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization, a move it has long shied from despite pressure from the United States, officials said Wednesday. The move is bolstered by Germany's change of heart on...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. Face transplants are extraordinarily complicated, relatively...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes ticked up last month to the highest level in three and a half years, helped by a jump in the number of houses for sale. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.97...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs. Reducing the Fed's efforts to keep borrowing rates low would "carry a substantial risk of...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS official in center of targeting probe: 'I have not done anything wrong.

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Lowe's said Wednesday that its first-quarter net income rose nearly 3 percent, but results fell short of expectations as rainy weather hurt spring gardening sales. The No. 2 home improvement retailer's results stood in contrast to those reported a day earlier by Home Depot....

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

CHICAGO (AP) — Grains futures were mixed Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery rose 4.5 cents to $6.85 a bushel; July corn rose 7 cents to $6.47 a bushel; July oats were flat at $3.55 a bushel; while July soybeans slipped 2 cents to $14.7625 a bushel. Beef and pork...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. The shooting incident early Wednesday took place in Orlando, Fla., where an FBI agent along with other law enforcement personnel were...

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — US home sales rise slightly to 4.97 million in April, highest in 3 ½ years; inventories jump.

Updated: 22 min ago

ROME (AP) — An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to stand trial for manslaughter in the vessel's shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany, which killed 32 people. Judge Pietro Molino, at a closed-door hearing Wednesday in the town of Grosseto, agreed to...