President Barack Obama is unveiling a new jobs initiative geared toward veterans Friday that the administration says will put thousands of former men and women in uniform back to work.
A House committee passed a measure Thursday maintaining current tractor-trailer truck sizes and weights for three years until a study can be completed on the potential costs incurred by allowing longer and heavier trucks on U.S. roads.
A bill that clarifies the illegality of insider trading of stocks and other securities by members of Congress and their staff members won approval Thursday from the U.S. Senate.
The only original copy of the Magna Carta in private hands worldwide has a fancy new display case at the National Archives, where the document goes on display next month.
The U.S. government's list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to the United States or within its borders has more than doubled over the past year, a counterterrorism official told CNN Thursday.
Gene Seymour says that Don Cornelius was in the vanguard of black popular culture's flowering in the 1970s, with a TV show so electrifying that its appeal crossed racial, ethnic and even generational lines.
Attorney General Eric Holder will face off with House Republican Darrell Issa Thursday over Mexican-border gun-running, a showdown that comes after Issa and the Justice Department exchanged sharp letters in recent days.
Attorneys for Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, will seek a delay of his court-martial in a pre-trial hearing Thursday.
By all accounts, it started innocently. An airport screener missed a bag. But by the time it was over, authorities had shut down an airport terminal for two hours, delaying scores of passengers.
As news spread that "Soul Train" legend Don Cornelius died Wednesday morning of a gunshot wound at the age of 75, fans and friends took to Twitter to express their grief in a stream condolences that continued Thursday.