WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House will vote next week to permit the government to borrow more money to meet its obligations, a move aimed at heading off a market-rattling confrontation with President Barack Obama over the so-called debt limit.
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The first of the money donated through the United Way after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School is being spent in part to meet the immediate needs of first responders, teachers and others who lost wages and may have exhausted their benefits.
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin indicted on charges that he used his office for personal gain.
PHILADELPHIA — A man has been arrested on charges he grabbed a woman by the feet and threw her onto the tracks at a Philadelphia subway station, police said. The woman managed to get off the tracks on her own and suffered only minor injuries.
ALGIERS, Algeria — About 60 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for three days into a bloody siege with Islamic militants at a gas plant deep in the Sahara, Algeria's state news service said Friday.
President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he takes his oath of office Monday.
BOSTON — Republicans in key U.S. states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win elections after suffering back-to-back presidential losses.
An oddly calm -- and occasionally smiling -- Lance Armstrong ducked few questions before a national television audience on Thursday night, admitting that he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his storied cycling career.
Insomnia Cookies will open Monday in the Village, providing another late night sweet craving to the campus and the community.
ALBANY, N.Y. — The National Rifle Association said the secretive negotiations and lightning-fast passage of New York's tough new gun control laws squelched the powerful gun lobby's ability to mount opposition.
NEW ORLEANS — Inspectors taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the federal government have found hundreds of structures at risk of failing and endangering people and property in 37 states.
SAN FRANCISCO — Public nudity activists prompted a hearing scheduled for Thursday in San Francisco in which a federal judge will consider blocking a new city law requiring people to wear clothing.
The Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and wounded others reopens Thursday with a private ceremony for victims, first responders and officials.
ALBION, Ind. — Teachers in a northeastern Indiana county may soon be carrying guns in school if officials accept a proposal from the county sheriff.
INDIANAPOLIS — Hospitals across Indiana are tightening visitor restrictions in hopes of preventing the spread of flu, which has claimed the lives of 27 people in the state this season.
Ball State’s geothermal project and higher education were among topics Ball State President Jo Ann Gora and Sen. Joe Donnelly discussed Wednesday morning.
Ball State’s geothermal project and higher education were among topics Ball State President Jo Ann Gora and Sen. Joe Donnelly discussed Wednesday morning on campus.
After two summers and 10 countries, senior nursing major Alexa Avey came back to the Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday, but this time she is behind the table.
Conceding “this will be difficult,” President Barack Obama urged a reluctant Congress on Wednesday to require background checks for all gun sales.
Concern of a potentially explosive chemical caused students and faculty to evacuate Burris Laboratory School early Wednesday morning.
