WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats don’t plan to join the House in voting to repeal the massive new health care law, but they do want to eliminate a small portion of the law that is unrelated to health care. Three Senate ...

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By 5 p.m. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, only one customer had stopped into Joseph Pontes’ custom tailor shop in Bethesda. “We’re trying to keep our head above water,” said Pontes, 58, who moved to the United States from ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The lawyer for a U.S. Army private suspected of passing thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks says he has asked the government to release his client from a Marine Corps brig due to what he says are needlessly ...

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We are all Arizonans. We are all heartsick. We all mourn the victims of last Saturday’s massacre in Tucson — six dead and 14 wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. We are all living in communities with untreated mental ...

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal involving Kentucky’s now-repealed law banning protests at military funerals. The high court, without comment, on Wednesday turned away the appeal. A federal district judge in Lexington threw ...

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LOS ANGELES — Lassie could always sense when Timmy was in trouble. Black Beauty knew the bridge was out. Now two-thirds of American pet owners say they can relate — their pets have a sixth sense about bad weather. Forty-three ...

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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that medical residents are employees for purposes of collecting Social Security taxes, dealing a blow to the universities that had fought to protect residents’ student status. In its ruling, the high court said the Internal ...

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve paid a record $78.4 billion in earnings to the U.S. government last year, reflecting gains from the central bank’s unconventional efforts to lift the economy. The payment to the Treasury Department is the largest since ...

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WASHINGTON — Investigators say a suspicious package that disrupted commuters headed to the Capitol was not a threat. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider says the package was deemed suspicious Monday when it was detected by a bomb-sniffing dog. She ...

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HAMDEN, Conn. — Despite tough financial times following the worst recession in decades, some states continue to spend millions of dollars to preserve American farmland and stem its rapid loss to development and suburban sprawl. Advocates say the preservation efforts ...

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