Posted: 11:58 AM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is under observation at a New York hospital after being treated for a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.
Updated: 12:36 PM A U.S. official says retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78.
Updated: 10:16 AM An enormous storm system that dumped snow and sleet on the nation's midsection and unleashed damaging tornadoes around the Deep South began punching its way toward the Northeast on Wednesday, slowing holiday travel.
Updated: 7:51 PM Want to come to President Barack Obama's inauguration? There's plenty of room.
Posted: 3:39 PM Even if the "fiscal cliff" can't be avoided, workers probably won't feel the full brunt of the tax hikes in their paychecks right away.
Posted: 1:00 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.
Updated: 5:27 PM Vice President Joe Biden will head a new taskforce aimed at creating new policies.
Posted: 8:23 PM Connecticut's governor is calling for a moment of silence and churches to ring bells exactly one week after the shooting at an elementary school.
Posted: 5:32 PM A mediator who worked with Adam Lanza's parents during their divorce in 2009 says his mother said she didn't like to leave him alone and that his parents went out of their way to accommodate him.
Posted: 4:22 PM The Connecticut town where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in a school last week has said goodbye with the first two funerals.
Posted: 10:34 PM Hundreds of people are packing a church and spilling outside in Connecticut to remember the victims of a shooting that killed 26 people at an elementary school.
Updated: 10:37 PM Police say 27 people were killed in the shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, including the gunman, and one person died at another scene.
Updated: 3:33 PM A tearful President Barack Obama says the country's leaders must "take meaningful action" regardless of politics in response to the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
Posted: 10:48 PM President Barack Obama says Hanukkah is a story of "resilience and optimism."
Posted: 3:53 PM The Smithsonian's National Zoo says its 6-year-old Andean bear Billie Jean has given birth to twins.
Posted: 10:34 AM Tobacco companies have introduced almost no cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products in the U.S. in more than 18 months because the federal government has prevented them from doing so.
Posted: 10:51 PM The Federal Reserve predicts the unemployment rate will stay elevated until late 2015, suggesting it will keep short-term interest rates low for the next three years.
Updated: 10:52 PM South Korea says North Korea has fired a long-range rocket in a defiant move just days ahead of South Korea's presidential election.
Posted: 10:35 PM Lawyers for the Senate are asking a federal judge to dismiss a suit by a citizens lobbying group challenging the Senate's 60-vote threshold for overcoming filibusters.
Updated: 4:50 PM The streets of downtown Harrisonburg were filled with Christmas cheer Friday night at the city's holiday parade.
Updated: 5:58 PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court will take up gay marriage cases, including California ban on same-sex unions.
Posted: 10:36 AM President Barack Obama is showcasing a northern Virginia family to highlight his call for extending current tax rates to all but the top 2 percent of earners.
Posted: 10:44 PM The Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee says she is willing to consider higher cuts to the food stamp program in an effort to include a massive five-year farm bill in negotiations on the so-called fiscal cliff.
Posted: 7:44 PM Authorities say hunters have found bodies believed to be two young Iowa cousins who disappeared while riding their bikes in July.
Posted: 12:29 PM So you just won the $550 million Powerball jackpot, the second highest in lottery history. Now what?
