AP - Investors returned cautiously to the stock market Tuesday, wary about the downtrodden economy while trying to recoup some of the ground in the previous session's enormous decline. The major indexes fluctuated in late afternoon trading after giving up a big early advance.

AP - Chrysler says its November U.S. sales plunged 47 percent, blaming a slumping industrywide demand and a planned drop in fleet sales.

AP - Oil and retail gasoline prices dipped to new three-year lows Tuesday with the United States officially in a recession.

AP - It was a bittersweet moment for Brad Pitt, walking through the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood where families were preparing to spend their first holidays since Hurricane Katrina.

AP - Britney Spears is taking her "Circus" act on the road.