From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:03 PM

The FBI is investigation how a stun gun got onto a JetBlue plane, which departed from Boston’s Logan Airport and landed at Newark's Liberty International Airport Friday night. (July 11)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:04 PM

Families of soldiers killed by an interpreter working for Ohio-based contractor Mission Essential Personnel sue for wrongful death 18 months after he kills two and injures a third during a shooting spree inside a U.S. base in Afghanistan. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:04 PM

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accuses Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers of employing criminals to obtain confidential information about his family, his private financial affairs and the lives of ordinary people. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:03 PM

In jubilant scenes a popular El Paso teacher was released from a Mexican jail, after becoming the high-profile victim of drug-smuggling scheme. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:03 PM

The National League tries for its second straight win in Major League Baseball’s All-Star game Tuesday night in Phoenix. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:03 PM

Authorities closed down a San Francisco train station where demonstrators gathered to condemn last week’s fatal shooting of a man by transit police during a confrontation. The station has since been reopened. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 12:31 PM

The AP’s Alicia Quarles joins the stars of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" for the film's U.S. premiere in New York. (July 11)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 12:16 PM

The painting, which depicts the crucifixion, was previously thought to be by Marcello Venusti and had been in the Oxford dormitory since the 1930s.

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 12:16 PM

The WikiLeaks founder is back in British court, fighting extradition to Sweden, where he’s wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault.

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 12:16 PM

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the United States will need to find savings across all aspects of government, and demonstrate to the American people that it can use their tax dollars more efficiently. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 12:16 PM

Astronauts stepped out for the last spacewalk of NASA’s shuttle era. Space station astronauts Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan Jr. ventured out nearly 250 miles above Earth Tuesday. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:38 AM

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) hit back at critics of his comments last week that the poor should "share some of the responsibility" in reducing the deficit

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:38 AM

President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers, seemingly trapped in inflexible bargaining positions, remain far apart on a deal to avert a first-ever default on the country’s financial obligations. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:40 AM

Diver Scott Gardner photographed a fish using rocks to break shells. But scientists are debating if it actually qualifies as tool use.

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:40 AM

Security officials say masked gunmen blew up a terminal of the Egyptian natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan in a predawn attack Tuesday. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:08 AM

A Florida Panhandle town is grieving the loss of a couple and their five young children who died in a western Alabama plane crash. The family was flying back from a family reunion in St. Louis on Saturday when their plane went down. (July 11)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 9:40 AM

A Chinese toddler who fell 10 stories from her family apartment and was caught by a passerby has woken up from a coma, doctors in Hangzhou said Tuesday. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 9:11 AM

Rupert Murdoch’s media empire was besieged Monday by accusations that 2 more of his papers engaged in privacy violations that included accessing former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank account and stealing the medical records of his ill baby. (July

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:40 AM

'Jersey Shore' star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro OK’d for pretrial intervention; Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley to host CMA Awards a 4th time; Marine's date request gets through to Mila Kunis. (July 12)

From: AOL News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:37 AM

Here’s the latest news for Tuesday, July 12: Afghan president's half brother killed in south; Julian Assange back in court to fight extradition; UK police face parliament on tabloid phone hacking; Final shuttle era spacewalk.