America’s top commando said Thursday that special operations forces had conducted some 2,000 raids in Afghanistan over just the past year but that talking — not shooting — is the way forward.

More than 150 students at the University of California at Berkeley took over a campus building Thursday to protest a proposed 81 percent increase in tuition fees, university officials said.

Roseanne Barr’s TV comeback has come to an end, for now. Lifetime’s pulled the plug on the comedian’s reality series, “Roseanne’s Nuts.”

President Barack Obama on Thursday took his pitch for his $447 billion jobs bill to the shadows of an aging bridge that connects Ohio and Kentucky — home states to his chief Republican rivals in Congress.

Back in 2006, volunteers with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping migrants along the Arizona-Mexico border, began hearing the same stories from many who had been in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Thursday that the 2012 presidential election is “a window of opportunity” for social conservatives because President Barack Obama is so politically vulnerable.

A delayed or canceled recess for Congress loomed Thursday after the House defeated a temporary spending measure the night before that would fund the government for the first seven weeks of the new fiscal year that begins October 1. …   

A rare Bible that’s been to the moon and back will have a new owner Thursday night — the complete King James version, framed in gold leaf, is under the hammer at an auction house in New Hampshire.  

Miami Heat superstar LeBron James was honored by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, receiving its “Champion of Youth” award.

Tropical Storm Ophelia changed little as it moved west over the central Atlantic, but posed no immediate threat to land, forecasters said. …