Posted: 8:59 AM North Korea is vowing a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States. The harsh rhetoric Thursday comes hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
Updated: 8:21 AM A White House official says President Barack Obama has invited Rep. Paul Ryan for lunch at the White House Thursday.
Updated: 8:23 AM Senator Rand Paul has ended his filibuster blocking Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's CIA nominee, nearly 13 hours after he began.
Posted: 6:20 PM The incident occurred at around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Sierra Cat Haven
Posted: 5:42 PM New York City police say 44-year-old Julio Acevedo was arrested at a mini-mart in Bethlehem, Pa for the death of a pregnant woman and her husband
Updated: 1:54 PM A part-time parking deck worker at Atlanta's airport says she never thought about keeping the envelope with $7,000 in cash
Updated: 1:23 PM Some family members of Sept. 11 terror victims are angry over new flight-safety rules that will permit small knives on planes.
Posted: 9:23 AM Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on television's "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff, "Rhoda," has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
Posted: 9:20 AM The Obama administration and congressional Republicans are quietly working in tandem to blunt the impact of short-term spending cuts that kicked in with dire White House warnings last week, with both sides eager to pocket the full savings for deficit reduction as they pivot to a new clash over Medicare.
Posted: 9:10 AM President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill next week.
Posted: 9:02 AM U.S. stocks are opening higher following a record-setting day for the Dow Jones industrial average.
Posted: 8:59 AM Attorney General Eric Holder is urging Congress to confront gun violence by requiring universal background checks, imposing tougher penalties on traffickers and banning high-capacity magazines and military-style assault weapons.
Posted: 8:16 AM Venezuelans in the U.S. have expressed cautious optimism that new elections will bring change to their homeland after the death of President Hugo Chavez.
Posted: 8:03 PM Marco McMillian, who was openly gay, was found slain in a rural area last week
Updated: 4:06 PM The leader had been receiving treatment for cancer since last year
Posted: 3:06 PM The Arkansas Senate has voted to override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of legislation that would ban most abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward.
Posted: 2:56 PM House and Senate Democrats want to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, more than a dollar higher than President Barack Obama proposed
Posted: 1:26 PM Health officials say there's been an alarming increase in some dangerous superbugs at U.S. hospitals.
Posted: 12:06 PM U.S. and NATO leaders revealed late last month that they may keep between 8,000 and 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after combat troops leave at the end of next year.
Posted: 11:22 AM A coalition of universities and college professionals is asserting the automatic budget cuts could end up costing some students hundreds of dollars a year.
Updated: 8:11 PM The Dow Jones industrial average has regained all the losses suffered during the Great Recession and reached a new high
Posted: 8:26 AM The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan has decided it will no longer publish figures on Taliban attacks, a week after acknowledging that it had incorrectly reported a 7 percent decline in such attacks last year.
Posted: 8:18 AM A Baylor University freshman died Sunday morning at a local hospital after he fell during a dance rehearsal Saturday night and hit his head.
