Posted: 3:05 PM The Food and Drug Administration is proposing the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens.
Updated: 11:02 AM The House has overwhelmingly approved $9.7 billion to pay flood insurance claims for the many home and business owners flooded out by Superstorm Sandy.
Updated: 9:09 AM A spokesman says Connecticut's lieutenant governor has been invited to attend a meeting between former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and families of the victims of the deadly Newtown elementary school shooting.
Posted: 10:43 PM President Barack Obama has signed the $633 billion defense bill into law, but has criticized one of its provisions protecting conscience rights.
Updated: 9:12 AM Lawmakers are accusing the CIA of misleading the makers of the Osama bin Laden raid film, "Zero Dark Thirty," by telling them that harsh interrogation methods helped track down the terrorist mastermind.
Posted: 4:43 PM General Motors' U.S. sales rose 3.7 percent last year as the company's growth was eclipsed by other automakers including Chrisler which had its best year since 2007.
Updated: 10:25 AM While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013.
Posted: 2:54 PM A sixth man has pleaded guilty in connection with racially motivated attacks by young whites against blacks in Jackson.
Posted: 2:44 PM For the first time since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the school's young students are back in class today.
Posted: 2:36 PM A private survey shows U.S. businesses sharply increased hiring in December, helped by a surge of new construction jobs created to help rebuild from Superstorm Sandy.
Updated: 9:09 AM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been released from a New York hospital where she was treated for a blood clot in her head.
Posted: 8:35 PM Amid vociferous criticism from both the right and the left, House Speaker John Boehner is agreeing to hold a vote this week for a bill providing relief for states hit by superstorm Sandy.
Posted: 8:35 PM Police say an American Airlines jet flying from Brazil to North Texas has diverted to Houston after a 25-year-old passenger died aboard the aircraft.
Posted: 8:18 PM The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has permitted a three-star Army general accused of bullying subordinates to retire without a demotion in rank.
Posted: 5:25 PM A judge in New York has ruled that President Barack Obama's administration doesn't have to publicly disclose its legal justification for drone attacks and other deadly methods it has used to kill suspected terrorists overseas.
Updated: 4:56 PM The children who escaped last month's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have been welcomed with their parents at a school in a neighboring town that was overhauled specially for them.
Posted: 4:50 PM The State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is speaking with staff and reviewing paperwork while she continues to recover from a blood clot in her head.
Updated: 10:05 AM WASHINGTON - New York area-lawmakers in both parties are erupting in anger, saying the House Republican leadership has decided to let Congress adjourn without holding a vote on aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Updated: 12:32 PM WASHINGTON - President Obama says an effort to change the nation's tax code that is too skewed toward the wealthy has been achieved with the "fiscal cliff" deal approved in Congress.
Updated: 10:45 PM Republicans are dropping their demands for additional spending cuts and will hold a House vote on whether to give final congressional approval to the Senate-approved compromise averting "fiscal cliff" tax increases and spending cuts.
Updated: 7:48 PM As the New Year arrives, new rules bring the nation closer to the end of the traditional incandescent light bulb. Energy efficiency legislation adopted by Congress and signed by former President George W. Bush in 2007 is gradually phasing out the standard bulbs that have illuminated American homes for more than a century.
Updated: 12:32 PM The No. 2 Republican in the House leadership says he opposes a Senate-passed measure to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.
Updated: 3:09 PM Bartlesville, Okla. Public Schools will beef up security at their campuses after an 18-year-old student was arrested for allegedly plotting to shoot students and set bombs.
