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One by one, shattered Newtown buries its dead
One by one by one by one, each with fresh heartbreak, hearses crisscrossed two New England towns on Wednesday, bearing three tiny victims of the Sandy ...
Ex-nurse wants aiding-suicide conviction reversed
An attorney for a former Minnesota nurse convicted of going online and encouraging two people to kill themselves said in a court document Wednesday ...
State Dept security chief resigns after Benghazi
Four State Department officials resigned under pressure Wednesday, less than a day after a damning report blamed management failures for a lack of ...
Obama, Boehner clash as cliff edge approaches
Fiscal cliff talks at a partisan standoff, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner swapped barbed political charges on Wednesday yet ...
Senators write Sony, criticize 'Zero Dark Thirty'
The movie "Zero Dark Thirty" is misleading and "grossly inaccurate" in its suggestion that torture produced the tip that led the U.S. military to find ...
'Lincoln' at the Capitol draws director and star
Today's lawmakers might be excused for thinking they've seen this movie: A recently re-elected president spars with a quarrelsome Congress over an ...
Mikulski becoming 1st woman to head Appropriations
Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski is set to become the first woman to chair the prestigious Senate Appropriations Committee, a position left open this ...
GOP proposes smaller, $24B Sandy aid package
Senate Republicans on Wednesday proposed a $24 billion emergency aid package for Superstorm Sandy victims, less than half of what Democrats hope to ...
Obama to send Congress gun proposals in January
Declaring the time for action overdue, President Barack Obama promised on Wednesday to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun ...
Possible Hagel pick raises concerns in Senate GOP
President Barack Obama's possible pick of Republican Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon raises serious concerns among some of his former Senate ...
Texas governor asks cancer agency to halt grants
A $3 billion cancer-fighting effort that's already under criminal investigation received yet more humiliation Wednesday when Texas Gov. Rick Perry ...
IRS: 100M taxpayers face delays without AMT fix
Up to 100 million taxpayers — about two-thirds of all filers — won't be able to file their 2012 tax returns until late March if Congress doesn't ...
Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo
With an atypical audience — members of Congress — actor and director Ben Affleck read from a script with a pointed message: A desperate humanitarian ...
Hearing on voting rights turns partisan
Senate Democrats and Republicans sparred Wednesday over whether voter ID laws, attempts to purge voter rolls and restricted early voting were ...
Stocks fall as sides snipe in 'cliff' talks
Stocks dipped Wednesday, recording their first loss of the week. President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress sniped at each other, and a ...
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...
Russia gives initial OK to American adoption ban
Russia's parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming preliminary approval to a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a harsh ...
Bork nomination fight altered judicial selection
Conservatives wanted Robert H. Bork on the Supreme Court. They wound up with Anthony Kennedy, the key vote in reaffirming a woman's right to an ...
Bork, whose failed nomination made history, dies
Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon's behest and whose failed 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court helped ...
Obama Social Security offer at odds with top Dems
President Barack Obama's offer to limit the growth of Social Security benefits would cost the average retiree less than $50 in the first year. But the ...
Australian gay politician gets married in Spain
A prominent gay Australian politician married his longtime partner Wednesday in southern Spain, two months after his country voted down a proposal to ...
Israeli Arabs unenthusiastic about Jan. 22 vote
Israeli Arab activist Rasool Saada is crisscrossing the country to encourage fellow Arab citizens to vote in Jan. 22 parliamentary elections, ...
Czech parliament approves austerity measures
The Czech Republic's lower house of parliament has approved unpopular austerity measures that had threatened to cause the downfall of the center-right ...
White House threatens veto of Boehner's 'Plan B'
The White House says President Barack Obama would veto House Speaker John Boehner's 'Plan B' proposal for extending tax cuts for people making up to ...
France wants to split banks' trading, lending ops
France's government proposed a bill Wednesday that would split banks' risky trading activities from their more traditional lending operations as part ...