Navy reverses decision to let chaplains perform same-sex unions

Under pressure from more than five dozen House lawmakers, the Navy late Tuesday abruptly reversed its decision that would have allowed...

Illegal immigrants don't hold out much hope from president's speech

Tuesday was a typical day in the Studio City office of immigration attorney Jessica Dominguez, except that, in addition to the illegal...

Indiana governor signs Planned Parenthood funding ban

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a Republican considering a run for president, signed legislation Tuesday to bar Planned Parenthood from...

Healthcare law gets friendly hearing in appeals court

The Obama administration received a friendly hearing for its defense of the new national healthcare law from three judges of the U.S. 4th...

President Obama could send text-message warnings under new PLAN system

President Obama, who has been called the texter-in-chief, will soon have the ability to send any cellphone in the U.S. a text message...

Boehner demands trillions in cuts in exchange for debt vote

House Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday that Republicans wanted trillions in budget cuts in exchange for their vote to increase the...

Healthcare law showdowns loom in appeals courts

President Obama's healthcare law faces a series of challenges in three appeals courts starting Tuesday as Republican lawyers from 27...

Arizona taking immigration law to U.S. Supreme Court

Arizona's controversial immigration law is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, officials announced Monday.

Full face transplant patient makes first appearance

BOSTON — The nation's first full face transplant recipient said the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the...

Dismissed juror in Casey Anthony trial: 'Appalled at lack of instruction'

CLEARWATER — As potential jurors waited outside the courtroom in Pinellas County Tuesday, they talked openly about Casey Anthony,...

Obama order could make corporate political spending public

A lobbying battle is raging largely behind the scenes over a seemingly obscure executive order that could — if signed by President...

100 FBI retirees defend disgraced Boston agent

One hundred retired FBI agents, many long past their crime-fighting days, are rallying this spring in an effort to exonerate a disgraced...

In finding Osama bin Laden, CIA soars from distress to success

The first CIA officers who rushed to Afghanistan to find Osama bin Laden after the terrorist attacks of 2001 had to buy field gear at an REI...

Antiabortion measures flooding state legislatures

Energized by Republican gains in the last election and still stinging from the passage of President Obama's healthcare overhaul,...

GOP finding it hard to make progress

Six months after Republicans swept the midterm election by promising bold solutions to fiscal woes, they continue to struggle to find a...

Families of dead miners feel let down by Washington

As he delivered a eulogy last year for 29 men killed in the worst coal mine disaster in four decades, President Obama bowed his head and...

Floodwaters spare Kentucky, taunt towns downstream

As Memphis readied for the mighty Mississippi to bring its furor to town, some Kentucky residents upstream returned to their homes Saturday,...

Worst may be over for Texas wildfires

After six months of battling blazes that scorched more than 2.8 million acres across the state, Texas appears to be nearing the end of...