Posted: 4:22 PM President Barack Obama's top Democratic ally in the Senate is calling for the House to vote on the president's plan to raise top tax rates on households making more than $250,000 a year.
Posted: 4:20 PM A parent and community activist in Philadelphia is denouncing the suggestion from the National Rifle Association today that armed guards be placed in every school to prevent violence.
Posted: 4:19 PM As the community of Newtown, Conn., marks one week since the deaths of 20 children in their classrooms, school officials are looking ahead to getting Sandy Hook Elementary School students back into class, in a refurbished school in a neighboring town.
Posted: 8:26 AM Instagram has abandoned wording in its new terms-of-service agreement that sparked outcry from users concerned it meant their photos could appear in advertisements.
Posted: 8:10 AM The FBI says one of two bank robbers have been arrested after the pair's brazen escape from a high-rise federal jail in downtown Chicago sparked a dayslong manhunt.
Posted: 4:43 PM In the "fiscal cliff" standoff, President Barack Obama wants to raise taxes by about $20 billion a year more than House Speaker John Boehner. The president wants to spend about that much more yearly than Boehner does, too.
Posted: 4:29 PM Hyundai is recalling about 13,500 Veloster hatchbacks in the U.S. because the vehicle's sunroof can shatter and cause injuries.
Posted: 4:27 PM A fraternity has suspended its chapter at Northern Illinois University after police charged nearly two dozen members with hazing-related counts in the death of a freshman.
Posted: 8:06 AM One early focus of new gun regulations by President Barack Obama and some lawmakers would reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons, a law widely regarded as imperfect.
Posted: 8:04 AM Taxpayers making more than $1 million would get hit with tax increases averaging $100,000 next year under House Speaker John Boehner's alternative tax bill, according to an independent analysis.
Posted: 8:03 AM Much of the suspense surrounding the sentencing of the brother of Ponzi king Bernard Madoff has been eliminated with a plea agreement that makes a 10-year prison term all but certain.
Posted: 10:42 PM Vice President Joe Biden will be meeting Thursday with law enforcement officers from around the country. He's leading a task force that will look at ways of reducing gun violence.
Posted: 7:24 PM A Connecticut schoolteacher gunned down during last week's elementary school massacre is being remembered as a selfless hero who died trying to shield her students.
Posted: 4:49 PM The Internal Revenue Service says up to 100 million taxpayers - about two-thirds of all filers - won't be able to file their 2012 tax returns until late March if Congress doesn't adjust the alternative minimum tax by the end of the year.
Posted: 4:48 PM A new movement has taken off to honor the 26 people killed at a school in Newtown, Conn.
Posted: 7:04 AM Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay and Indiana Pacers owner Herb Simon are pledging $750,000 each to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's fundraising campaign aimed at ending a labor dispute with its musicians.
Posted: 7:03 AM Employees at a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago knew something wasn't right when they arrived to work and saw a makeshift rope hanging from a cell window about 20 stories above ground.
Posted: 10:36 PM An independent panel charged with investigating the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has concluded that systematic management failures at the State Department led to inadequate security that left the diplomatic mission vulnerable.
Posted: 10:35 PM The Connecticut students who survived a mass shooting at their school will return to class after the winter break at a school in a neighboring town.
Posted: 10:34 PM A judge has ordered that a man charged with firing 54 shots outside a Newport Beach mall be held without bail.
Posted: 11:28 AM Authorities say two men being held on bank robbery charges have escaped from a downtown Chicago federal prison.
Posted: 10:55 AM The U.S. government has slapped Toyota Motor Corp. with a record $17.4 million fine for failing once again to quickly report problems to federal regulators and for delaying a safety recall.
Posted: 10:48 AM The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling more than 450,000 LG and Kenmore Elite Brand top-loading washing machines.
Posted: 10:45 AM The family of a Northern Illinois University fraternity pledge who died following a night of drinking says it has "no desire for revenge."
Posted: 8:01 AM The U.S. government has slapped Toyota Motor Corp. with a record $17.4 million fine for failing once again to quickly report problems to federal regulators and for delaying a safety recall.
