WASHINGTON - Federal law-enforcement and national-security authorities are on alert for counterfeit doses of H1N1 vaccine and anti-viral medications that they expect to surface in the United States, particularly as shortages of both continue to grow.

Poisoning caused by binge drinking -- drinking excessively within a short period. For men, that's five standard-sized alcoholic beverages within two hours. For women, it's four or more standard-sized drinks, which is defined as a 12-ounce beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine or a mixed drink with one shot.

In the online dating business, where new sites close as quickly as they open and only a handful have mastered the art of matchmaking, a new generation of services is courting the billion-dollar industry by leveraging all that personal information on social networks.

Somewhere between a curb at Boston's Logan Airport and luggage claim at Tampa International, somebody snuck a bottle of pure maple syrup and some change from Millard Keller's black bag recently.

Keller went home, then to bed. He didn't open the bag until morning. So the 57-year-old retiree lost the chance to get reimbursed by the airline, JetBlue Airways.

Wouldn't it be great if the Internal Revenue Service were looking for you to give you money?

For nearly 108,000 taxpayers nationwide, that's exactly the case.

The agency is holding federal income tax refunds totaling about $124 million that it tried to distribute this tax season but were returned as undeliverable.

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Those who knew Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan knew he was troubled.

Adnan Haider prayed with Hasan -- an Army psychiatrist now accused of a mass shooting at a Texas Army base -- at a suburban Washington mosque. After they met last year, Hasan immediately said he was looking for a Muslim woman to date.

This week's number that President Barack Obama needs to worry about is not two, the number of governorships the Democrats lost on Tuesday. It is 10.2 percent, the unemployment rate for October announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor.