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The emotional legal case over custody of a young girl, which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, appears to have come to an end. South Carolina's highest court on Wednesday ordered the adoption of 3-year-old "Baby Veronica" finalized. She will live with a white couple, not her Native American father.

Biologists have discovered they can track hard-to-see species in streams, ponds and even the ocean by sampling the water for DNA. Scientists say the technique is an important conservation tool: So far, it's been used to track declining giant salamanders and even locate a rare whale.

A photo shows the former president holding the two-year-old son of a member of his security detail. Patrick is undergoing treatment for leukemia.

The anti-apartheid hero has been a unifying force in South Africa, particularly for the ruling African National Congress. There's concern, however, that xenophobia, racism and political infighting may grow once the "father of the nation" dies.

For decades, the Watts neighborhood has been notorious for gang violence and strained relations between residents and police. But violent crime and homicide have fallen dramatically in recent years, and a community policing effort is helping to ease tensions between cops and the community.

With a potential blowup over executive branch nominations defused for now, the Senate may next have to wrestle with judicial nominations. President Obama wants three appointees to the powerful District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals approved quickly, but Republicans question the need for any more judges there at all. The impasse may bring the chamber to another showdown over the use of the filibuster.

President Obama spoke Wednesday in Galesburg, Ill. — the site of a speech eight years ago that set out his vision of the economy and set the stage for his first presidential campaign. This time around, the president talked about where the economy needs to go in the years ahead.

Water in all its forms has caused trouble at the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant this week. They are reminders that the problems are far from over.

There have been a lot of big flops at the movie box office this summer, most notably The Lone Ranger.

The next time you open a fortune cookie, you might want to give its message careful consideration. When William Johnson of Southwick, Mass., saw that his cookie's message predicted he would win a lot of gold, he decided it was time to buy a lottery ticket — and he won the million-dollar prize.