Posted: 10:56 AM The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week's marathon arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress' ability to get anything done.
Posted: 10:47 AM President Barack Obama is reviving a tax proposal that stands as a symbol of the Democrats' efforts to portray themselves as champions of economic fairness, though it has no chance of passing Congress.
Posted: 10:43 AM Firefighters trying to contain the last section of a wildfire southwest of Denver today may find themselves working against the weather with a forecast calling for warming temperatures and building winds.
Posted: 10:38 AM A federal grand jury has added more counts to an indictment that accuses a Vancouver, Wash., man of sending threatening letters laced with white powder to Congress members.
Posted: 10:28 AM An official with the Maryland lottery says a record $640 million winning lottery ticket has been sold in Maryland, and there could be others nationwide.
Posted: 12:30 PM Rep. Paul Ryan, the powerful chairman of the House Budget Committee, is endorsing Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination.
Posted: 11:47 AM Biden says in an interview taped for CBS's "Face the Nation" that "we think the mandate and the law are constitutional and we think the court will rule that way."
Posted: 11:45 AM Now the justices will wrestle with what to do with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. They have a range of options, from upholding the law to striking it down in its entirety.
Posted: 11:41 AM The Obama administration and five states have reached an agreement to speed up approval of offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes, which have been delayed by cost concerns and public opposition.
Posted: 11:33 AM Facing a conservative backlash, House Republicans are working to change a new law that allows the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects.
Posted: 11:27 AM The credit card company said Friday it has notified law enforcement agencies and issuers of the MasterCard accounts that are potentially at risk.
Posted: 11:25 AM Four computer storage devices for the California Department of Child Support Services went missing somewhere between Boulder, Colo., and Sacramento earlier this month.
Posted: 11:11 AM A judge overseeing former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case on Thursday delayed the start of the trial by three weeks to early June.
Posted: 11:08 AM According to new government statistics, the rate is about 1 in 88. That means autism is nearly twice as common as the government reported just five years ago. The largest increases are in Hispanic kids.
Posted: 11:04 AM Authorities in Colorado say they're investigating problems with an emergency notification system because some residents who had signed up to get wildfire warnings never got one.
Posted: 6:42 AM At 18 months, Cristina Astacio spoke only a few words, wouldn't respond to her name and shunned other kids in her day care group. Last October, her worried parents found out why.
Posted: 6:34 AM Facing a conservative backlash, House Republicans are working to change a new law that allows the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders.
Posted: 6:32 AM Governors of three states got up close with "pink slime" Thursday, touching and examining treated beef at a plant and eating hamburgers made with it in a bid to persuade grossed-out consumers and grocery stores the product is safe to consume.
Posted: 6:30 AM A Michigan militia leader and his son pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing a machine gun, giving prosecutors their only gain in a domestic terror trial that was upended when the judge dismissed charges of plotting war against the government.
Posted: 6:28 AM An elderly couple has reached a settlement with Spike Lee after the pair said they had to leave their Florida home after the director help spread a Twitter posting listing their address as that of the man who shot an unarmed teen.
Posted: 6:27 AM There's a new twist for police in Orange, Conn.: They've had to break a man out of handcuffs.
Updated: 12:37 PM Lottery officials say they are increasing the MegaMillions lottery jackpot to $640 million, raising what was already a world-record prize.
Posted: 5:30 AM As a club that prides itself on tradition, Augusta National has unwittingly wound up in the middle of a membership debate it thought it was done with nearly a decade ago.
Posted: 4:41 PM The great American Dream became a nightmare for millions of people who lost their homes in the financial collapse. Ironically, a push to get more people into homes of their own may have started the spiral that brought down banks and led to the bailouts.
