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While the country remains shut down because of irresponsible Republican hostage-taking, progressive members of Congress and working families are looking ahead to fight against any proposed grand "bargain" that would include benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare. Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus spoke Thursday before working families and allies, specifically rejecting any such cuts.
Investigators have found indications that the woman who led authorities on a chase from the White House to the Capitol before she was shot to death by police thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
Pope Francis' comments that the Catholic Church should not focus so much on homosexuality, abortion and contraception have met with strong approval from U.S. Catholics, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Friday.
Editor's note: This story is one in a series on education issues featured at the 2013 Education Nation summit in New York City on Oct. 6-8. To learn more, please visit EducationNation.com.
Heavy rains may cause flooding and raised water levels as Tropical Storm Karen hits the Gulf Coast, although the chances of it becoming a hurricane are very low, a meteorologist said Friday.
As American citizens endured the third day of the government shutdown with nary a hint that politicians will come to a speedy resolution, more stories emerged of how the Washington squabbling is having an effect on people across the country.
Four people who were found shot to death in a car in northwest Alabama had been implicated in a Tennessee child pornography investigation and may have ended up killing one another in a murder-suicide plot, authorities said Thursday.
A 14-year-old boy shot and killed two men and then wounded himself during a deer hunting trip in northeastern Oregon, the county sheriff said Thursday.The teen was staying with at least three other men — all from Baker City, Ore. — at a cabin on private property off a U.S.
A Montana woman accused of shoving her husband of just eight days to his death off a cliff in a national park was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on murder charges.The woman, Jordan Linn Graham, 22, of Kalispell, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon in U.S.
DANBURY, Conn. — Photojournalist Bill Eppridge, whose long career included capturing images of a mortally wounded Robert F. Kennedy, has died at age 75.He died Thursday at a Danbury hospital after a brief illness, said his wife, Adrienne Aurichio.
