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Today at 15:01:26 - WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will seek to provide Israel with an additional $70 million in the coming months for its short-range rocket shield, known as the "Iron Dome," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta s ...
Today at 15:01:26 - The FBI has tracked the cell phone of a Burbank, Ill., man suspected of killing his new bride to the Texas-Mexico border.
Today at 15:01:26 - More than three decades after Charles McGhee was fatally shot in a vacant lot, an arrest has been made in the 36-year-old man’s 1981 New Year's Day death, police said.
Today at 15:01:26 - Firefighters at a wildfire burning about 12 square miles in northern Colorado expect warm stormy weather will make their work more difficult Friday.
Today at 15:01:26 - The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mysterious flying object that nearly caused a mid-air collision Monday evening over Denver, according to NBC affiliate KUSA.com.
Today at 13:58:45 - John Edwards is facing the biggest vote of his life as the case against the former president candidate was given to the North Carolina jury this morning.
Today at 13:58:45 - In 2001, when I was a political/metro columnist for The Charlotte Observer, I had lunch with Sen. John Edwards at a Southern soul food restaurant on Tryon Street between the headquarters buildings of ...
Today at 13:58:45 - A possible source of the so-called "birther" issue -- or at least a potential cause of the rumors that have dogged President Barack Obama -- has been identified.
Today at 13:58:45 - It appears Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former vice president Al Gore is back in the game. Back in the dating game, that is. He has, according to The Washington Post's Reliable Source blog, a "serio ...
Today at 13:58:45 - Faced with the prospect of losing both hands and her one remaining foot, a young Georgia woman battling to survive a case of flesh-eating bacteria that has already claimed one leg mouthed the words "L ...
Today at 12:56:34 - As politics triumphs over policy, underlying facts about student loan levels go ignored along with an opportunity to help students make better enrollment and borrowing decisions
17/05/2012 at 13:23:21 - Critics are arguing that excessive intervention by the central bank has distorted financial markets and forced big banks to resort to risky moves in order to maintain profits
17/05/2012 at 13:23:21 - The much-heralded and long-awaited campaign media attack on Mitt Romney began Monday. But it might not succeed just as Obama's advisers hope
15/05/2012 at 07:43:06 - Hailey, Idaho remains hopeful that a native son held captive by the Taliban will be released. But it has been a harrowing three year ordeal and hope has been dashed before
15/05/2012 at 07:43:06 - The credibility of Dimon himself, who for the last two years has been Big Finance's manicured right hand in Washington, slapping away the regulatory feelers of the federal government
Today at 10:46:34 - California Gov. Jerry Brown talks to Charlie Rose about the state's $16 billion budget deficit and his plan to deal with it, using a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes.
Today at 10:46:34 - Facebook initial public offering may be a day of riches for many early employees, but to show they are still in touch with their roots, some workers spent all night at the headquarters on what they ca ...
Today at 10:46:34 - New evidence in the Trayvon Martin case has been released; Also, Facebook's IPO will value the company at more than $100 billion; All that, and all that matters, in today's Eye Opener.
Today at 10:46:34 - George Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, talks to Charlie Rose about the release of much of the evidence in the Trayvon Martin shooting case.
Today at 10:46:34 - Hundreds of firefighters worked to combat a growing blaze that was scorching terrain around a scenic canyon in northern Colorado
Today at 10:46:20 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An Obama administration plan to cut the cost of spaceflight services faces a key test on Saturday when a privately owned rocket lifts off for a practice run to the ...
Today at 10:46:20 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Railroad operating company Kansas City Southern said on Friday shipments of coal, farm products and chemicals were weaker than expected a month ago, but kept its full-year profit ...
Today at 10:46:20 - TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi police have arrested a man they believe is responsible for two highway killings this month, the Department of Public Safety said on Friday.
Today at 10:46:20 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 1978, after New York City had barely escaped bankruptcy, Mayor Ed Koch went looking for cash from an unlikely source: the city's colleges and other nonprofits, which do not pay ...
Today at 10:46:20 - GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - A jury in North Carolina is set to begin deliberations on Friday morning in the federal political corruption trial of former U.S. Senator John Edwards, who is ch ...
Today at 08:18:19 - A year ago this week, a monster tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, leaving 161 dead and hundreds injured. Most relief efforts have ceased, but hundreds are still homeless, and many people are wi ...
Today at 04:14:50 - The family of a Georgia student fighting a devastating flesh-eating bacterial infection was waiting to hear from doctors Thursday about whether her fingers will need to be amputated next.
Today at 04:14:50 - An undercover video shows horses being struck with sticks and subjected to "soring," an illegal process in which chemicals are placed on their lower legs in an effort to induce the trademark Tennessee ...
Today at 04:14:50 - Vermont's governor has signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to ban fracking, the controversial practice to extract natural gas from the ground.
Today at 04:14:50 - Alabama's governor on Thursday called in lawmakers for a special session in part to further explore changes to the state's anti-illegal immigration law, considered the country's toughest.
Today at 00:55:23 - No cup SHOUTING echoes through the dungeon-like rows of cells as Sergeant George Hosac and your correspondent walk through the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. Most inmat ...
Today at 00:55:23 - SIX months from polling day, America’s election campaign has opened with a blizzard of tendentious commercials, contrived razzamatazz and mind-numbing trivia. Was the stadium in Oh ...
Today at 00:55:23 - UNLIKE colleagues such as Bob Bennett, a senator from Utah unceremoniously dumped by the Republican Party in 2010, Richard Lugar was not caught off guard. He had known for well ove ...
Today at 00:55:23 - JERRY BROWN can point to only one clear policy achievement since he became governor of California again last year. It has nothing to do with California’s ongoing fiscal crisis, whi ...
Today at 00:55:23 - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants disrupted an arraignment that dragged into the night in the opening act of the long ...
Today at 00:26:33 - WASHINGTON (AP) — In a show of conservative enthusiasm, a tea-party backed Republican vanquished six-term Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in a GOP primary and North Carolina voters decided overw ...
Today at 00:26:33 - NRCC says Rahm Emanuel knew how to pick candidates in tough districts.
Today at 00:26:33 - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that only Congress can take the "bold action" needed to spur job creation, as he unfurled an election year "to do" list for lawmakers ...
Today at 00:26:33 - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The flap over a bogus college degree on Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's official biography has claimed its first casualty — the director who led the committee that hired him ...
Today at 00:26:33 - Longtime moderate Indiana Senator falls to hard-line conservative