Latest Breaking News

AP News - 9 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year.The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to a wide-ranging farm bill that would have maintained current spending on food stamps and cut farm subsidies inste ...more

AP News - 10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree.Relations bet ...more

AP News - 11 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday urged Congress to move carefully before making any changes that might restrict the National Security Agency programs for mass collection of people's phone records and information from the Inter ...more

AP News - 12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and ...more

AP News - 12 minutes ago

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona death row inmate convicted of killing six people in Phoenix's "serial shooter" attacks has died in prison.Prison officials say 40-year-old Dale Hausner was found unresponsive in his cell in Florence around noon Wednesda ...more

AP News - 19 minutes ago

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy on Wednesday charged three Navy football players with sexually assaulting a female midshipman at an off-campus house more than a year ago.The academy said in a news release that the male midshipmen ar ...more

AP News - 21 minutes ago

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The press secretary for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says it was her decision to put three newspapers on notice that she, the governor and other administration officials will no longer speak to them.Spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett ...more

AP News - 24 minutes ago

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials s ...more

AP News - 33 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The force-feeding of terror suspects at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, runs counter to international standards, medical ethics and the practices at American prisons, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee ...more

AP News - 35 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation rejected a challenge Wednesday from Senate conservatives demanding evidence that the nation's borders are secure before millions living in the United States unlawfully can gain legal ...more