Posted: 11:55 AM President Barack Obama is spending the day at a hotel in Charlotte, N.C., tweaking the speech he'll give tonight at the Democratic National Convention, and consulting with advisers.
Posted: 7:40 AM The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell by 12,000 last week, a hopeful signal that the job market may be improving.
Updated: 9:14 AM Democrats have nominated Barack Obama for a second term as president, setting up a showdown this fall with Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Posted: 11:56 PM Former President Bill Clinton has offered a ringing endorsement of President Barack Obama, saying he believes with all his heart that Obama's leadership on the economy will bring it back.
Posted: 4:23 PM Democrats have changed their convention platform to add a mention of God and declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
Updated: 12:53 PM More than half of U.S. mobile app users say they have decided not to use an app on their phone because of concerns over privacy.
Updated: 4:48 PM The Democratic Party's platform makes no reference to God, drawing criticism from Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.
Posted: 10:39 AM Democratic officials say they're moving President Barack Obama's convention speech indoors tomorrow night because of the possibility of severe weather.
Posted: 9:03 AM Representative Bill Flores says a recent Congressional Budget Office report doesn't bode well for the future of the U.S. economy. Flores joined Brazos Valley This Morning by phone Wednesday to talk about the economy, party conventions and a little Texas A&M football.
Updated: 8:00 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. companies got more output from their workers this spring than initially thought. The modest gain may mean that hiring could stay sluggish this year.
Updated: 5:05 PM First lady Michelle Obama says her husband has never forgotten how he started and knows what it's like for struggling families.
Updated: 9:29 AM Democrats unveiled a party platform at their national convention Monday that echoes President Barack Obama's call for higher taxes on wealthier Americans while backing same-sex marriage and abortion rights.
Posted: 7:36 AM PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars.
Updated: 3:36 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama headlines the first night of the Democratic National Convention with a speech in Charlotte, N.C.
Updated: 11:24 PM About 300 firefighters are on the ground, while half a dozen water-dropping helicopters and a DC-10 tanker are in the air battling a wildfire in the Angeles National Forest northeast of Los Angeles.
Posted: 11:00 PM President Barack Obama says officials from all levels of government will do everything they can to assess the damage from Hurricane Isaac and figure out how to help.
Posted: 10:55 PM The potential for defense budget cuts and layoffs at Lockheed Martin loom over plans to deliver the first F-35 fighter jets to Nellis Air Force Base early next year, though no decision has been announced about which programs might get cut and where.
Posted: 7:21 PM Detroit police have released photos of a male "person of interest" in the theft of a Secret Service rental truck carrying equipment related to Vice President Joe Biden's Labor Day visit to Detroit.
Updated: 7:25 PM Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in "The Green Mile" and such other box office hits as "Armageddon," ''Planet of the Apes" and "Kung Fu Panda," is dead at age 54.
Updated: 10:18 AM In his warm-up for the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama is tangling with a couple of rivals, only one named Mitt. The other is voter apathy, especially among the young.
Updated: 6:58 PM Much of Plaquemines Parish is still covered with floodwater and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still don't have any power, five days after Hurricane Isaac ravaged the state.
Posted: 10:52 AM Republicans are trying to undermine Vice President Joe Biden's effectiveness as the Obama campaign's chief surrogate and liaison to white, working-class voters and seniors - two influential groups of voters being courted aggressively by both parties.
Posted: 10:13 AM Even though President Barack Obama's health care law could be repealed if he loses the White House this fall, some of his closest former advisers are proposing a new round of major changes aimed at controlling health costs.
Updated: 7:04 AM President Barack Obama is embarking on a four-day march through battleground states and the storm-battered Gulf Coast in the lead-up to his party's convention.
Updated: 12:05 PM Neil Armstrong never capitalized on his celebrity and just wanted to be part of a team - yet ended up making history and becoming an American hero, fellow astronauts said Friday as mourners gathered to celebrate the life of the first man to walk on the moon.
