Posted: 3:56 PM Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is distancing herself from a 15-year-old article in which she says nominees should be more forthcoming about their views during confirmation hearings.
Posted: 11:46 AM A new survey says 91 percent of physicians say doctors overtest and overtreat to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits.
Updated: 3:24 PM Most parents think childhood obesity is a problem. Just not their kids' problem.
Posted: 11:40 AM A judge has agreed to hear a case challenging the U.S. government's "don't ask, don't tell' policy against openly gay soldiers.
Posted: 11:37 AM A Supreme Court ruling finding that Americans have the right to bear arms anywhere they live almost certainly means the end of Chicago's decades-old handgun ban but may not make handgun ownership there much easier.
Posted: 11:35 AM Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is calling the Constitution a living document, saying its framers wrote it to last through ever-changing circumstances.
Updated: 11:32 AM The Supreme Court has reaffirmed a ban on unlimited contributions to political parties.
Posted: 11:29 AM The tropical storm plowing across the Gulf of Mexico may have a silver lining in some of its clouds when it comes to the big oil spill.
Updated: 3:25 PM U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii is now president pro tem of the Senate after the death of his colleague, Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Updated: 5:51 PM President Barack Obama is calling for greater international cooperation in exploring space.
Updated: 5:44 PM The Supreme Court has struck down part of the anti-fraud law enacted in response to Enron and other corporate scandals from the early 2000s.
Updated: 5:45 PM The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from the Vatican in a suit on clergy abuse.
Updated: 2:47 PM Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is expected to face hours of questioning, some of it less than friendly, when her confirmation hearing resumes Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Updated: 5:43 PM BP says the rig drilling the relief well that's the best hope of stopping the Gulf oil spill has made it within about 20 feet horizontally of the blown-out well that's gushing crude.
Updated: 2:36 PM Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he's disappointed by Monday's Supreme Court decision that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.
Posted: 5:08 PM President Barack Obama says the country has lost a voice of principle and reason with the passing of Sen. Robert C. Byrd.
Updated: 2:35 PM The Food and Drug Administration is urging meat producers to limit the amount of antibiotics they give animals in response to public health concerns about the drugs.
Posted: 12:11 PM Tropical Storm Alex is gaining strength as it swirls across the Gulf of Mexico on a path toward Mexico's northeastern coast that threatens to push oil from the massive spill farther inland.
Posted: 12:09 PM BP says the cost of the company's response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has reached about $2.65 billion.
Updated: 2:36 PM The Supreme Court has come down on the side of gun rights, ruling Monday that the Second Amendment restrains the government's ability to significantly limit "the right to keep and bear arms."
Posted: 11:45 AM The Supreme Court is entering the nation's charged debate over immigration, agreeing to hear a challenge from business and civil liberties groups to an Arizona law that cracks down on employers who hire undocumented workers.
Posted: 11:41 AM More Americans with terminal illnesses may be spending their final days in hospitals rather than quietly at home with loved ones.
Posted: 11:34 AM The Supreme Court has rejected appeals by the Obama administration and the nation's largest tobacco companies to get involved in a legal fight about the dangers of cigarette smoking that has stretched more than ten years.
Updated: 2:34 PM A new study ties the controversial diabetes drug Avandia to a higher risk of heart problems, strokes and deaths in older adults.
Updated: 2:43 PM Robert C. Byrd, the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate, has died. He was 92.
