Posted: 7:57 AM As the season's first widespread snowstorm moves on, holiday travelers hope that means they can, too.

Posted: 1:49 PM Vice President Joe Biden and the Obama administration will push to tighten gun laws in response to last Friday's massacre in Connecticut.

Posted: 1:45 PM Iowa and Nebraska take a heavy hit from the major snowstorm moving across the Plains and into the Midwest.

Posted: 7:15 AM One early focus of new gun regulations by President Barack Obama and some lawmakers would reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons, a law widely regarded as imperfect.

Posted: 12:21 PM The White House says President Barack Obama would veto House Speaker John Boehner's `Plan B' proposal for extending tax cuts for people making up to $1 million.

Updated: 12:24 PM President Barack Obama is asking a team led by Vice President Joe Biden to offer "concrete proposals" to curb gun violence no later than January, in the aftermath of the horrific massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.

Posted: 6:32 AM The National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun-rights group, has gone eerily silent after the deadly shooting of 26 people, including 20 children, at a Connecticut elementary school.

Posted: 2:47 PM Montana is approving easements to let the Keystone XL pipeline cross state-owned land, including the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers.

Posted: 11:02 AM The Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals have been evacuated after a bomb threat.

Posted: 10:57 AM A White House official says President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are meeting at the White House to discuss the pending fiscal cliff and deficit reduction.

Posted: 7:13 AM The next big issue in the national debate over guns — whether people have a right to be armed in public — is moving closer to Supreme Court review.

Posted: 4:58 AM Authorities in central Pennsylvania say three elderly Mennonite women were tied up and assaulted with a stun gun by a home invader who raged against their faith.

Posted: 4:47 AM Authorities have apprehended a man being sought in the shooting death of a 31-year-old Washington County deputy.

Posted: 4:42 AM Police in Alabama have fatally shot two suspects following separate shooting incidents 75 miles apart, one of which left three dead.

Posted: 10:48 PM Not long after Friday's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school, media outlets began reporting the gunman's identity as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza of Hoboken, N.J.

Updated: 8:42 AM The man suspected of gunning down more than two dozen people in a small town in Connecticut is the son of a teacher at the elementary school where the killings occurred, and his mother is presumed to be among the dead.

Updated: 1:50 PM A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 27 people, including 18 children on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings.

Posted: 7:27 AM The Senate is turning its attention to a $60.4 billion disaster aid package for Superstorm Sandy victims while President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner try to avert the fiscal cliff off spending cuts and tax increases.

Updated: 8:32 AM Massachusetts' Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who unsuccessfully sought the presidency in 2004 and has pined to be America's top diplomat, has vaulted to the head of President Barack Obama's short list of secretary of state candidates.

Posted: 8:05 AM White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043.

Posted: 7:54 AM A Delaware man is suing the Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon church over childhood sexual abuse committed by the scoutmaster at his church-sponsored troop.

Posted: 8:34 AM A suburban Portland mall remains closed while crime scene experts detail the shooting that left three people dead and one wounded and sent Santa and thousands of shoppers running.

Posted: 8:20 AM Interstate 77 has reopened in both directions in West Virginia after crews worked through the night to repair damage from a massive natural gas line explosion and fire.

Posted: 6:54 AM Defense attorneys are asking a judge to end the 24-hour GPS monitoring of George Zimmerman while he is out on bond in the fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

Posted: 7:21 AM The Australian radio hosts behind a hoax phone call to the British hospital where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was staying said through tears that they were shattered upon learning that the nurse who was duped by their prank had died.