U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says more than 200 adults have been arrested in a five-week, international investigation of child pornography.
Taxes are going up this week on almost everyone, but one group of top earners will feel the pinch far more than others. The .7 percent.
Taxes are going up this week on almost everyone, but one group of top earners will feel the pinch far more than others. The .7 percent.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and other Northeastern Republicans are furious at their fellow GOPers in the House for not swiftly putting through a pork-laden Senate bill that began as a Hurricane Sandy emergency relief package and ended up as a $60 billion monument to congressional logrolling.
Delaware taxpayers appear to be getting soaked twice under a deal in which the Democratic governor lent $21.5 million to a hybrid electric carmaker to set up shop in the state. The company has yet to produce a car in Delaware, and taxpayers are footing the electric bill for the idle plant.
John Boehner was elected Thursday to a second term as House speaker, despite misgivings by some conservatives about his handling of the fiscal crisis negotiations.
More Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, though the winter holidays likely distorted the data for the second straight week.
Illinois Senate Democrats advanced legislation late Wednesday to restrict semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, pressing forward with new gun control measures in the waning days of the session over the objections of firearms groups.
Obama said that although he continued to oppose certain sections of the bill, "the need to renew critical defense authorities and funding was too great to ignore."
The bill, which averts a looming fiscal cliff that had threatened to plunge the nation back into recession, also extends expiring jobless benefits, prevents cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors and delays for two months billions of dollars in across-the-board spending cuts in defense and domestic programs.
John Boehner could be in for a fight Thursday when the newly seated House votes for the next speaker, with conservatives grumbling about his leadership and a report surfacing about a supposed plan to challenge him.
Intelligence sources told Fox News on Wednesday that they believe an Al Qaeda threat against a U.S. diplomat, as well as a call to kill American soldiers, in Yemen is credible.
Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown is again hinting that he might run for Sen. John Kerry's likely open Senate seat, suggesting Monday the Democratic field appears vulnerable.
The State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham leaves the New York hospital where she had been receiving treatment for a blood clot.
The FBI is reporting a record 2.8 million background checks for gun purchases in December – following the deadly Connecticut school shootings that prompted lawmakers to call for tighter gun control.
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