Posted: 3:05 PM President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint on Wednesday that strives to achieve a "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits, raising taxes on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs
Posted: 2:55 PM House lawmakers expected to finalize legislation Wednesday that would give the federal government a broader role helping banks, manufacturers and other businesses protect themselves against cyberattacks.
Posted: 2:44 PM President Barack Obama's budget plan would increase taxes by $580 billion over the next decade, but it relies on many proposals that have been repeatedly rejected by Congress.
Posted: 10:16 AM Officials say a 78-year-old man tied a puppy to train tracks in the California desert, and an engineer had to use emergency brakes to keep from crushing it.
Posted: 9:42 AM Two key senators plan to announce a bipartisan deal on background checks for gun shows and Internet sales at an 11 a.m. press conference Wednesday.
Posted: 9:38 AM The elephant, Carol, is part of a circus in town for a series of performances. The Asian elephant was in an outside area of the Tupelo BancorpSouth Arena.
Posted: 6:48 PM More than a dozen people were wounded when a suspect went building-to-building in an apparent stabbing attack at a Texas college campus Tuesday, authorities said.
Posted: 12:07 PM A 6-year-old New Jersey boy is in stable condition after he was accidentally shot in the head by his 4-year-old neighbor on Monday evening, police said.
Posted: 10:08 AM Thousands of the toys and other gifts that poured into Newtown following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School ended up going to children's hospitals
Posted: 10:07 AM The last call for drinks is 2 a.m. in California, but one lawmaker believes that's just too early to set down the shot glasses and beer steins.
Posted: 9:51 AM Evidence gathered in an investigation of a fatal medical helicopter crash has raised questions about whether the pilot was distracted by personal text messages when he failed to refuel the helicopter
Posted: 9:43 AM Senate Democrats are approaching decision time on whether they should try to get Republican support for expanding background checks for firearms sales
Posted: 10:26 PM With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday said that he's "determined as ever" to pass tougher guns laws.
Posted: 3:43 PM Rescuers on Monday recovered the bodies of two young cousins buried when a wall of dirt fell on them while they were playing in a hole at a home construction site in North Carolina.
Posted: 3:38 PM Secretary of State John Kerry worked Monday to corral leaders into a new and ambitious peace process that includes reviving parts of a long-dormant plan embraced by the Arab world a decade ago, officials said.
Posted: 3:30 PM The U.S. Postal Service delivers mail to 11 million more homes, offices and other addresses than it did a decade ago, yet keeps losing money.
Posted: 7:07 AM The Southern California church headed by popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren says his 27-year-old son has committed suicide.
Posted: 6:11 AM The family of an American diplomat who was among those killed in a terrorist attack in southern Afghanistan has taken solace in knowing she died doing what she loved.
Posted: 6:04 AM Some faculty members have demanded Barchi's resignation, citing his approval last year of a suspension for Rice rather than his immediate firing.
Posted: 6:01 AM New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose state recently passed some of the strictest gun control measures in the country, often reminds people he is a hunter.
Posted: 5:58 AM Airline passenger complaints to the Transportation Department surged by one-fifth last year even though other measures such as on-time arrivals and mishandled baggage show airlines are doing a better job
Posted: 5:54 AM Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy harshly criticized gun industry lobbyists on Sunday, saying they are doing too little to halt gun violence.
Posted: 5:40 AM Talks between two influential senators have emerged as the most promising route for a bipartisan breakthrough on expanding federal background checks for gun buyers.
Updated: 8:33 AM Senators writing a comprehensive immigration bill hope to finish their work this week, opening what's sure to be a raucous public debate over measures to secure the borde
Posted: 5:30 AM The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program — the military's health care system.
