WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the House of Representatives on Thursday predicted weekend passage of a sweeping healthcare overhaul that budget analysts said would cut the U.S. deficit over 10 years and dramatically expand health coverage.
President Barack Obama, who was scheduled to leave on ...
MANISTEE, Mich./WACO, Texas/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Tea Partiers say they can pinpoint the precise moment when they made it clear to the Republican Party they had no intention of being its lapdog.
On a bright, brisk afternoon in mid-February, with snow still thick on the ground from storms ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Extreme obesity among American children is much worse than previously believed, putting them at greater risk of serious health problems as they age, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
A study of more than 700,000 children and teens in southern California found that more than ...
An audit of 31 municipalities involving hundreds of local government officials found major differences in awareness and compliance with ethics laws, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in a statement.
"Our auditors found that some municipalities fail to comply with existing rules and aren't ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill in a foreign country.
Colleen LaRose appeared in federal court in Philadelphia accused of plotting ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former political fundraiser for leading Democratic Party politicians, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding three major banks out of $292.2 million in loan transactions.
Hassan Nemazee, 60, once head of a private equity firm and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The changing face of U.S. homegrown extremism has officials and analysts worried as a growing number of unlikely militants in small-town America radicalize themselves using the Internet and plot attacks at home and abroad.
The ease with which people can convert online to ...
Obama made the comment in the White House Rose Garden as he put his name on legislation that includes a number of incentives aimed at helping small businesses recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Obama is under pressure to reduce a 9.7 percent jobless rate that has remained ...
David Headley, 49, has been cooperating with U.S. investigators since his arrest in October and faces up to life in prison, said U.S. District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber.
Headley also pleaded guilty to plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper that offended many Muslims with 2005 cartoons ...
Luis Armando Pena Soltren, 67, admitted to boarding the Puerto Rico-bound plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York with a pistol and a pocketknife and threatening the flight crew.
Soltren, a U.S. citizen who lived in Cuba for 41 years, returned voluntarily to New York last ...
