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Updated: Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:37 AM
Attorneys trying to find a jury in George Zimmerman's trial for shooting an unarmed teen stopped questioning a man in his 20s after he gave answers that indicated he wouldn't be impartial.
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Updated: Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:09 AM
House Speaker John Boehner says he will vote for a wide-ranging farm bill headed to the House floor this month, a major boost for the five year, half-trillion dollar legislation that stalled in the House last year.
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Updated: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:44 AM
The defense for a man accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade is hinting a trial can be avoided with a plea if he escapes the death penalty.
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Updated: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:44 AM
Opening statements have begun in the long-awaited racketeering trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in Boston.
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Updated: Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:10 AM
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Updated: Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:12 AM
Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right.
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Updated: Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:13 AM
Backers of far-reaching immigration legislation are turning their attention to courting support and counting votes after the Senate pushed the contentious bill over early procedural hurdles.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:59 PM
The entire House of Representatives has gotten a briefing from intelligence officials as part of an effort to calm outrage over National Security Agency programs that collect Americans' phone and Internet records.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:57 PM
A wildfire in the Black Forest area northeast of Colorado Springs is burning homes, and another fire that led to the evacuation of Royal Gorge Bridge & Park has burned three structures.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:52 PM
The Obama administration's appeal in the legal fight over morning-after pills has been officially put on hold until a judge weighs a new plan to allow girls of all ages to buy the contraceptives without a prescription, according to a government letter filed Tuesday.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:56 PM
The White House is threatening a veto of the House version of the defense policy bill over limits it places on President Barack Obama's authority to handle terror suspects at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:54 PM
The Southern Baptist Convention has re-elected its first black president, the Rev. Fred Luter Jr. Luter was first elected in 2012.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:08 PM
The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a constitutional challenge to a surveillance program under which the National Security Agency vacuums up information about every phone call placed within, from, or to the United States.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:54 PM
The Senate has voted to advance a landmark immigration bill, clearing away the first procedural hurdle in front of legislation that would open the door to citizenship for millions.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:43 AM
Senior State Department and Diplomatic Security officials may have covered up or stopped investigations of inappropriate or even criminal misconduct by staff, according to an internal memo from the department's Office of the Inspector General.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:28 AM
Prospective jurors for the trial of George Zimmerman in Florida are making it clear that they've heard a lot about the case, but that isn't necessarily disqualifying them.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:10 AM
House Speaker John Boehner says it is "inconceivable" that top White House officials didn't tell President Barack Obama once they learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting conservative political groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:11 AM
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says Congress is considering stripping the military of its authority to prosecute sexual assault cases and shifting the responsibility to state prosecutors.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:12 AM
President Barack Obama says "the moment is now" for Congress to act to overhaul the nation's broken immigration laws.
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Updated: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:22 AM
Senate Republicans' proposed wholesale rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law has failed on a straight party-line vote in the education committee.
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