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Posted: 10:13 AM Even though President Barack Obama's health care law could be repealed if he loses the White House this fall, some of his closest former advisers are proposing a new round of major changes aimed at controlling health costs.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.
Updated: 5:30 PM American Airlines and US Airways are one step closer to a potential merger.
Posted: 11:20 PM Clint Eastwood whipped up the crowd at the Republican National Convention ahead of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's acceptance speech.
Posted: 11:11 PM Isaac has weakened to a tropical depression after drenching southeast Louisiana and causing flooding.
Updated: 4:52 PM Accepting his party's nomination to be president, Republican Mitt Romney says he wants to restore the nation's promise by creating jobs for millions of unemployed Americans
Updated: 11:09 AM FEMA officials traveling with College Station-based Texas Task Force 1 were still waiting to move out from the staging area in Alexandria, Louisiana, Thursday morning.
Posted: 10:57 AM Louisiana officials have ordered evacuation of low-lying, sparsely-populated areas along the Tangipahoa River because an Isaac-hammered dam at a state park lake in southwest Mississippi near the Louisiana border is in danger of failing.
Updated: 10:35 AM Former President George W. Bush will be remembered fondly for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks, members of the Bush family said in a tribute video shown here Wednesday at the Republican National Convention.
Updated: 8:50 AM FEMA officials with Texas Task Force 1 say they are still staging Thursday morning, waiting on winds to lessen before they are told to move in.
Updated: 8:06 AM The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits was unchanged last week at a seasonally adjusted 374,000, suggesting slow improvement in the job market.
Posted: 11:07 PM Scores of scores of buses, dozens of high-water vehicles and 50 boats are evacuating at least 3,000 people in Louisiana's St. John the Baptist.
Posted: 11:03 PM Paul Ryan has accepted his party's vice-presidential nomination and immediately gone on the offensive against President Barack Obama.
Updated: 12:03 PM Federal health officials say that West Nile virus cases are up 40 percent since last week and are on pace to rival the record years of 2002 and 2003.
Updated: 5:20 PM Twitter's Response to #Isaac
Updated: 1:01 PM Brazos Valley This Morning spoke with a resident in Harvey, Louisiana Wednesday morning as Hurricane Isaac made a second landfall.
Updated: 8:54 AM Charlie McDermott with FEMA is embedded with Texas Task Force 1 in Louisiana and spoke with Brazos Valley This Morning Wednesday about the next 24 hours as Hurricane Isaac makes a second landfall.
Posted: 11:05 PM President Barack Obama is telling college students they have the most at stake in November's presidential election and says their generation will determine the nation's path.
Posted: 10:58 PM New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is building the case for a Mitt Romney presidency by saying the GOP nominee will tell voters the "hard truths" they need to hear to grow the economy and create jobs.
Updated: 10:42 PM United Airlines is working to get its flights running on-time again after major computer problems caused delays and cancellations.
Updated: 7:17 AM NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Isaac is lashing New Orleans as it approaches and pushing flood waters over a rural levee south of the city, where authorities believe some people may be trapped.
