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Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer has given $1 million to Restore Our Future, the superPAC supporting Mitt Romney. Singer is a longtime donor to GOP causes, but he's also a high-profile, big-money advocate for gay marriage.

President Obama has declared an emergency for North Carolina, as the Category 3 storm churns across the Caribbean. Irene is expected to hit North Carolina on Saturday and then swirl north. Weather experts say the storm is on a "worst-case track" for the East Coast.

A state official says a plan to re-route cars out of Balboa Park’s Plaza de Panama could put the park’s historic designation at risk.

Every student in the McAllen Independent School District district is about to get an iPad or iPod Touch that will replace traditional desktop computers. The cost would be about the same as purchasing new computers.

Unless the U.S. Senate acts soon, newly unemployed people won't get a federal subsidy to help them pay for their health insurance. The subsidy covers 65 percent of the cost.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal incident commander for the disaster, said BP has been cleared to take the first step toward permanently plugging the Deepwater Horizon well: replacing the failed blowout preventer.

Wednesday is the last day for homebuyers to close on purchases if they want to get the $8,000 federal tax credit. But a national Realtors group says as many as 180,000 people may not make it because of various delays. A bill working its way through Congress could provide a reprieve.

Doug Inkley, the senior scientist at the National Wildlife Federation, says the population of sea turtles and brown pelicans in the Gulf is being decimated. Inkley details the ongoing efforts to save two of the most visible species affected by the BP oil spill.

Jim Lehrer was slammed for losing control of last week's presidential debate, and Martha Raddatz is confronting criticism in the lead-up to Thursday's VP battle. But how much control can a moderator exert over ambitious and strong-willed candidates, especially when the stakes are so high?

A Mexican teen who was in a group that lured a U.S. Border Patrol agent out of his vehicle near Campo and shot him to death was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison. Christian Daniel Castro-Alvarez, 17, pleaded guilty to a murder charge in the death of Agent Robert W. Rosas Jr.