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.

Posted: 6:45 AM The Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, now just hours away, marks a key pivot point in the presidential race. But neither side knows which direction the high court's decision will turn the contest.

Posted: 5:21 AM Congressional leaders are hoping for final passage this week of a bill reshaping federal transportation programs and averting a doubling of interest rates for millions of federal student loans.

Posted: 7:16 AM More than 32,000 people have been ordered to evacuate as a fast-moving wildfire spreads into the Colorado Springs city limits.

Posted: 10:06 AM Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is trying to tamp down any speculation she could be Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate.

Posted: 12:52 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - Key parts of Arizona's immigration law have been struck down by the Supreme Court -- but not the provision requiring police to check the immigration status of someone they suspect is in the United States illegally.

Posted: 12:49 PM AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry released the following statement Monday regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law.

Posted: 7:32 AM U.S. stock futures are following global markets lower with Spain requesting help for its teetering banks.

Posted: 4:59 AM An aide to Egypt's president-elect says Islamist Mohammed Morsi has moved into the office once occupied by ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and has started consultations on forming his team and a new government.

Posted: 4:53 AM The Supreme Court is meeting today to issue opinions in some of the handful of cases that remain unresolved.

Posted: 3:23 PM Louisiana's governor has declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Debby threatens to flood low-lying coastal areas.

Posted: 12:12 PM The House committee chairman leading the fight to get Justice Department documents about a troubled gun-tracking operation says there's no evidence so far that White House officials were involved in misleading Congress or engaged in a cover-up.

Updated: 9:04 AM The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is tacking and updating the forecast path for Tropical Storm Debby -- which is anticipated to come onto land along the western coast of Florida in the next few days.

Posted: 7:22 AM President Barack Obama ardently defends his federal health care overhaul. Republican challenger Mitt Romney adamantly opposes it.

Posted: 7:18 AM The Colorado town of Manitou Springs is under evacuation order as a wildfire quickly spreads about 2,000 acres.

Updated: 7:58 AM Tropical Storm Debby has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, interfering with oil and gas production and putting officials on alert for flooding and strong winds from southern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

Posted: 7:22 AM President Barack Obama is pressing Congress to reach agreement on a transportation bill and a plan to prevent students from having their loan rates double.

Posted: 9:00 AM U.S. stock futures are bucking a sell-off on global markets and banks are among the biggest gainers.

Posted: 7:44 AM New accusations are being leveled against Jerry Sandusky as the jury deliberates in his child molestation trial.

Posted: 6:01 AM President Barack Obama is drawing attention to his breakthrough directive on illegal immigration and is pressing his jobs agenda before Hispanic leaders.

Posted: 8:33 PM Scientists from Louisiana and Michigan have very different predictions for the size of this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico. It will be the smallest in nearly a quarter century at just under 1,200 square miles - or five times that size.