Updated: 10:59 AM Republicans who have accused U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice of being part of a cover-up in the Benghazi attacks in Libya are offering a muted response to her selection to be President Barack Obama's new national security adviser.
Updated: 8:14 AM President Barack Obama's top national security adviser Tom Donilon is resigning and will be replaced by Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who has been a lightning rod for Republican criticism over faulty explanations for the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
Posted: 12:34 PM Voters in southeast Missouri are choosing a new U.S. House member after 32 years of representation by the Emerson family.
Posted: 12:15 PM Americans throw away more than a third of what they buy -- that's almost $400 a year per person, or more than an average month's worth of groceries.
Posted: 11:58 AM President Barack Obama has welcomed Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to the White House, asserting the South American nation's economic and democratic rise. Both leaders said they were committed to working toward a broad Asia-Pacific regional trade pact that would include both countries.
Posted: 11:11 AM Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says American education declined in quality when mothers started working outside the home.
Posted: 10:25 AM President Barack Obama is calling on Senate Republicans to allow prompt votes on three lawyers he's nominating to an understaffed federal appeals court in Washington.
Posted: 10:22 AM Senate Democrats are introducing legislation that would replace the one-sized-fits-all national standards of No Child Left Behind with ones that states write for themselves.
Posted: 8:41 AM U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has appointed a new state director to oversee his offices in Kansas and represent the senator in his home state.
Posted: 12:31 PM House Republicans are rebuffing President Barack Obama's latest plea to shutter the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Posted: 12:25 PM An attorney for Pfc. Bradley Manning says the soldier on trial for giving classified information to WikiLeaks was young and naive, but he had good intentions and thought he could make the world a better place.
Posted: 12:19 PM The Senate is considering a massive, five-year farm bill this week that would set policy for farm subsidies and food stamps. Here are answers to frequently asked questions about the nearly $100 billion-a-year bill:
Posted: 11:52 AM Officials say Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Mideast next week in another bid to revitalize peace hopes.
Posted: 11:45 AM Secretary of State John Kerry says the Obama administration is very concerned about Turkey's crackdown on protestors and is urging authorities to exercise restraint and all sides to refrain from violence.
Updated: 11:17 AM American military commanders wield substantial power to discipline the troops they lead. But an epidemic of sexual assaults roiling the armed forces has Congress in a mood to rein in their authority.
Updated: 11:12 AM Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama is "mired" in a series of scandals and must find a way to surmount them.
Posted: 11:06 AM A divided Supreme Court says police can legally take DNA without a warrant from those arrested in hopes of using it to solve old cases.
Posted: 10:59 AM The political influence of the Catholic Church is waning in New England.
Updated: 9:20 AM U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and liberal who was called out of retirement for a second tour of duty in Congress, has died at age 89.
Posted: 2:51 AM A senator guiding an immigration overhaul bill through Congress says he wants the Senate to pass the measure by July 4 and predicts as many as 70 votes in support.
Posted: 2:37 AM A House committee says a soon-to-be released Treasury Department report finds the Internal Revenue Service spent about $50 million to hold about 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012.
Posted: 2:32 AM The official Palestinian news agency says President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a new prime minister, ending weeks of uncertainty following the resignation of the previous premier.
Updated: 8:23 AM Gov. Sam Brownback is expected to sign the tax plan pushed through the Kansas Legislature by its GOP leaders.
Posted: 12:10 PM The bill calls for a budget of $14.5 billion for the next fiscal year, an overall increase of 1.5 percent.
Posted: 12:08 PM The Kansas Senate is taking up legislation that could delay or block new, multi-state standards for math and reading in public schools.
