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Fifty years after getting married, a New Mexico couple celebrated by skydiving. Alan Dodd wanted to do something different to mark their golden anniversary. His wife Pat needed some convincing. She gave in because as she told Albuquerque's KRQE TV, retirement has given the couple time to do "crazy things."

Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York have begun what they say will be a day full of marches, civil disobedience and other actions aimed at — this is their goal — shutting down Wall Street.

If a congressional supercommittee fails to agree on $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction, it could trigger automatic across-the-board cuts in spending. Both conservatives and liberals fear the cuts could be draconian. But others say the automatic trigger is the only real hope for curbing government spending.

The Obama administration's point man on energy issues is on Capitol Hill to defend the $528 million in federal loans made to the now-bankrupt solar energy company.

As hundreds of protesters tried to clog the streets around the New York Stock Exchange, they were met by a heavy police presence.

Small pockets of protesters are still milling about intersections all around lower Manhattan, but police have kept them from disrupting traffic any further.

From 720,000 in the year 1980 to more than 1.9 million in 2010, the number of Americans who are 90 years of age or older has nearly tripled, the Census Bureau reports today in its first comprehensive look at the over-90 population.

Once relegated to a few urban enclaves, the American hipster is suddenly everywhere. And, though it sounds funny, says one aficionado of hip culture, "hipsters in Omaha may actually be cooler than hipsters in New York City."

The team will move from the National League to the American. Also, Major League Baseball is adding one "wild card" team to each league's playoffs.

The number of children adopted from abroad has dropped by 60 percent over the past few years. Concerns about corruption are causing many countries to limit or abolish programs that have allowed needy children to be adopted by Americans.