Posted: 5:36 AM The House and Senate are poised to vote on a legislative package that would overhaul highway and transit programs, create 3 million jobs and spare millions of students.

Posted: 5:01 PM The House of Representatives voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt for refusing to turn over documents tied to the botched Fast and Furious gun-running sting

Posted: 12:55 PM Emails by Attorney General Eric Holder from early 2011 express the need to get to the bottom of allegations that a risky law enforcement tactic had been used in Operation Fast and Furious.

Updated: 12:55 PM President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his health care overhaul is a "victory for people all over the country" and will make their lives more secure.

Updated: 10:22 AM The Supreme Court has struck down a federal law making it a crime to lie about having received the Medal of Honor and other prized military awards.

Posted: 7:44 AM The National Weather Service's new Wireless Emergency Alerts system offers a new way to warn Americans about menacing weather, even if they are nowhere near a television, radio or storm sirens.

Posted: 7:36 AM The blaze was burning out of control early Thursday in the mountains and within Colorado's second-largest city, after more than 30,000 evacuees frantically packed up belongings and fled.

Posted: 7:34 AM The Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul marks a key pivot point in the presidential race. But neither side knows which direction the high court's decision will turn the contest.

Posted: 7:31 AM Plans for the brother of jailed financier Bernard Madoff to plead guilty and serve 10 years in prison raises fresh questions about the status of the investigation into the epic multibillion dollar fraud

Posted: 7:28 AM For the first time in a century, most of America's largest cities are growing at a faster rate than their surrounding suburbs.

Posted: 7:23 AM Debby destroyed homes and businesses, washed away roads and flooded neighborhoods in Florida before the once-large tropical storm drifted out to sea Wednesday, leaving behind a sopping mess.

Posted: 5:36 AM Authorities may never know why a Florida man viciously attacked and chewed on the face of an older homeless man in Miami last month after lab tests failed to find components of "bath salts" in his system.

Posted: 5:14 AM Tens of thousands of Colorado Springs residents forced from their homes by a raging wildfire took refuge with friends or family and crammed into hotels and shelters.

Posted: 4:11 AM On Tuesday 251 new daily high temperature records were set, boosting to 1,015 the number of records set during the previous week. Many more records were expected to have been set Wednesday.

Posted: 4:09 AM Congressional leaders are aiming for final passage by week's end of legislation reshaping federal transportation programs and preventing a doubling of interest rates for millions of new student loans.

Updated: 2:19 PM The Supreme Court has upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Posted: 12:07 AM The ordinance allows officers to write a ticket for $250 to $500 for possessing as much as 15 grams of marijuana or about 15 marijuana cigarettes.

Posted: 5:25 PM Debby destroyed homes and businesses, washed away roads and flooded neighborhoods in Florida before the once-large tropical storm drifted out to sea Wednesday, leaving behind a sopping mess.

Posted: 5:24 PM A congressional Republican says the House and Senate have tentatively agreed to prevent interest rates on new college loans from doubling to 6.8 percent this Sunday.

Posted: 5:22 PM Two high-definition cameras began streaming live video Wednesday of clown-like Atlantic puffins waddling, preening and nesting on a remote Maine island.

Posted: 5:20 PM A man who claimed Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor after an argument about a noisy party was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years for murder.

Posted: 5:19 PM A raging wildfire destroyed dozens of houses overnight and charred land on the edges of the Air Force Academy on Wednesday, while thick smoke and intense, towering flames kept officials from learning the full scope of damage to Colorado's second-largest city.

Posted: 5:57 AM Debby was expected to head out into the Atlantic on Wednesday, but forecasters warn that the weakened storm still posed a flooding and tornado threat even if it doesn't pack the same punch.

Posted: 5:56 AM Frustrated by a lack of progress in reducing sexual assaults among sailors, the Navy has put unprecedented attention on the issue this year.

Posted: 5:51 AM Nearly two decades before Matt Sandusky's blockbuster allegation that he was sexually abused by his adoptive father, his biological mother raised questions about their relationship.