WASHINGTON — On this, GOP budget guru Rep. Paul Ryan and top Senate Democrat Harry Reid can agree: There won’t be a “grand bargain” on the budget.
Instead, the Wisconsin...
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — In a moment of quiet reflection, Ed Ayers sat in front a wall etched with the names of 241 Americans who were slaughtered 30 years ago when a suicid...
Zients to tackle health website
WASHINGTON — When a federal program that promised cash rebates to people who traded in their clunkers for more fuel-efficient vehicles was...
Report: Price increase slows
WASHINGTON — There's some good news on college tuition. Yes, the cost has gone up — but not as much in the past.
For in-state students at a f...
Authorities seek motive
SPARKS, Nev. — Students cowered in fear and pleaded for their lives as a 12-year-old Nevada boy went on a schoolyard rampage with a handgun he bro...
Two hospital workers and a pilot were killed when a medical helicopter crashed in Tennessee as the aircraft was headed to pick up an ailing child, officials said Tuesday...
Door left open at nuke post
WASHINGTON — Air Force officers entrusted with the launch keys to long-range nuclear missiles have been caught twice this year leaving open a ...
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn’t qualify for them, according to a Treas...
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added just 148,000 jobs in September, suggesting the job market was weakening before a 16-day partial government shutdown.
Still, the Septem...
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon man pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of aiming a laser pointer at two commercial airliners.
Stephen Francis Bukucs, 39, a private ...
