Posted: 5:40 AM Firefighters battling a Colorado wildfire that has destroyed nearly 350 homes and scorched 28 square miles are hoping to have it fully contained by Sunday, thanks to rain and cooler temperatures.
Posted: 4:38 AM President Barack Obama leaves on a two-day bus tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania on Thursday, defending his economic policies and his decision to rescue U.S. automakers while raising questions about Republican Mitt Romney's business record.
Updated: 10:54 PM The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to settle the legal fight over a law that denies federal benefits to married gay couples.
Updated: 10:58 PM The four Flowers boys left College Station in early 2010 to live with their grandmother in Colorado Springs after both their parents died.
Posted: 9:30 AM Attorney General Eric Holder is charging that he's become a "proxy" for Republican attacks against President Barack Obama in an election year.
Posted: 9:27 AM President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is launching a new attack on Republican rival Mitt Romney's business record.
Updated: 4:59 AM Some families affected by the Colorado wildfires have been allowed to return home.
Posted: 3:37 PM As firefighters in the western U.S. deal with one of the busiest and most destructive wildfire seasons ever, some of the aircraft helping in that fight have been pulled out of service.
Updated: 11:45 AM CNN's Anderson Cooper came out in a letter online, saying "the fact is, I'm gay."
Updated: 7:16 AM Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he won't concede the presidency despite an official preliminary count that shows him losing to former ruling party candidate Enrique Pena Nieto.
Posted: 4:49 AM Every year, Mitt Romney and his family spend a week at his estate on a picturesque lake in New Hampshire.
Posted: 4:48 AM NEW YORK (AP) - This year July Fourth is on a Wednesday, and that has created a dilemma for some folks - how long to go away, if at all.
Updated: 4:42 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - A weekend without electricity was already trying for millions in the sweltering, storm-swept mid-Atlantic region.
Posted: 10:09 AM Republican leaders in Congress say voters will have the final word on health care in the November elections, and the GOP is betting that the law's unpopularity will be enough to drive Democrats from power.
Updated: 7:04 AM Even people who know their homes are still standing have some anxiety over temporary visits being allowed today to wildfire-devastated neighborhoods around Colorado Springs.
Posted: 10:53 PM Millions across the mid-Atlantic region are sweltering in the aftermath of violent storms that pummeled the East with high winds and downed trees last night.
Updated: 5:29 PM Colorado fire crews have been making slow but steady progress against the wildfire that has killed at least two people in Colorado Springs.
Updated: 8:13 AM President Barack Obama says the wildfires in Colorado are another example of Americans pitching in to help in times of tragedy and emergency bring Americans together.
Posted: 8:32 AM Stock futures are rebounding sharply after European leaders appeared to take decisive action on debt issues that have threatened to spread across the continent.
Posted: 5:06 AM Borrowers hoping to consolidate their student loans through a special government program have until Saturday to apply.
Posted: 5:01 AM A Florida judge will weigh several factors in deciding whether to set a second bond for the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin.
Posted: 4:22 PM The House has approved a precedent-setting resolution to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress. It was the first time a sitting Cabinet member has been held in contempt.
Updated: 2:43 PM Republican Mitt Romney is promising that he will repeal the federal health care law the Supreme Court just upheld.
Updated: 6:50 AM Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. tumbled in premarket trading as a published report said that the bank's trading losses may be as much as $9 billion - far higher than the estimated $2 billion loss disclosed last month.
