Published: Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 9:55 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 9:56 p.m. WASHINGTON-- Historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs, last-minute sweeteners to sweeping $940 ...
The passion against health care reform has elevated to such a level that protesters on Tuesday mocked an apparent Parkinson's Disease victim, scorning him as a "communist" who is looking for "handouts."
The second of two Prius "unintended acceleration" incidents examined this week by Toyota has come to the same conclusion as the earlier one: the data retrieved from the hybrid does not agree with the driver's account.
President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday "to do everything in my power" to get immigration legislation moving in Congress this year.Obama said work on an immigration bill should move forward based on an outline released Thursday by Sens.
In recent months, Lawrence H. Summers, the director of the National Economic Council in the Obama administration, has kept a relatively low profile and rarely assumes the public role of a White House attack dog.
A woman heading to her stepfather's house was "beyond lost" when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and onto a private Puget Sound beach, authorities said Monday.
A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.
A lengthy pursuit ended Tuesday morning in the Tolleson area west of Phoenix as a pickup truck driver carrying a load of human cargo tried to evade police.
An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert but causing no damage, injuries or power outages.
Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods Monday as the cities of Fargo in eastern North Dakota and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., went into flood-fighting mode.
The national Alliance Defense Fund says a town code that bars religious assemblies in private homes in the Arizona community of Gilbert is unconstitutional.
On-board surveillance video shows a school bus driver was sleep-deprived and didn't stop before turning into a suburban Philadelphia middle school, causing an accident that killed the passenger of an oncoming car, authorities said Monday.