President Hosts Sen. Fischer & GOP Senators for Dinner on Budget Day
Posted: 6:54 PM President Barack Obama is hosting Republican senators at the White House, with the budget, guns and immigration up for dinner table debate.
Posted: 6:54 PM President Barack Obama is hosting Republican senators at the White House, with the budget, guns and immigration up for dinner table debate.
Posted: 3:06 PM U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) released a statement today regarding her intention to oppose the gun control proposals currently under discussion in the United States Senate.
Updated: 11:23 AM Alberta's premier says if the Obama administration rejects the Keystone XL pipeline it be would be a significant thorn in their relations.
Posted: 11:12 AM The USPS says it will delay plans to end Saturday mail delivery because Congress isn't allowing the change.
Posted: 7:10 AM The time-honored skill of typing is still helpful, but it's becoming less necessary. And that raises the question: Does typing have a future?
Posted: 7:04 AM The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels says the rest of its season is canceled because of federal budget cuts.
Posted: 7:00 AM Some Chinese travel agencies have cancelled tours to North Korea due to safety concerns as Pyongyang continues its war-like posturing.
Posted: 7:01 AM More questions are percolating about how Rutgers handled the discovery of a former basketball coach who kicked players and used gay slurs as he yelled at them.
Updated: 6:56 AM Serbia's health officials say 13 people have been killed when a man went on a shooting spree in a village near Belgrade.
Posted: 6:52 AM North Korea is urging all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate because it says the rival Koreas are on the eve of a nuclear war.
Updated: 5:02 PM Hundreds of thousands of pounds of frozen food recalled amid an E. coli scare may have been served in schools.
Updated: 8:28 AM Senators writing a comprehensive immigration bill hope to finish their work this week.
Updated: 8:20 AM Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose conservative ideas made an enduring impact on Britain, has died. She was 87.
Posted: 4:52 AM The 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.
Updated: 8:20 AM The Justice Department hasn't yet said whether it will appeal today's ruling by a federal judge, striking down the age restrictions on the over-the-counter purchases of the morning-after pill.
Posted: 4:54 AM Court documents are raising new questions for the university that Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes attended before the July 20 massacre.
Posted: 4:52 AM Economists say March likely was another month of solid job gains.
Posted: 4:46 AM North Korea's latest outburst of nuclear and military threats is giving the U.S. a rare opportunity to build bridges with China.
Posted: 7:20 AM Sheriff's officials say an intensified hunt with renewed hope will continue today for a missing hiker after her companion was found.
Posted: 7:11 AM The Pentagon is deploying a ballistic missile defense system to Guam to strengthen the Asia-Pacific region's protections against a possible North Korean attack.
Updated: 6:47 AM The parading of U.S. air and naval power -- including nuclear-capable bombers -- within view of the Korean peninsula is as much about psychological war as real war.
Posted: 11:53 AM Connecticut lawmakers have reached a deal on what they're calling some of the toughest gun laws in the country that were proposed after the mass school shooting in the state in December.
Posted: 4:54 AM President Barack Obama's reluctance to give military aid to Syrian rebels may be explained, in part, in three words: Iranian nuclear weapons.
Posted: 4:49 AM Investigators are sifting through newly uncovered debris from the World Trade Center for the first time in three years, hoping more victims might be identified after tens of millions have been spent on the painstaking identification process.