WASHINGTON (AP) - Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end. ...more

November 9, 2009

Set a golf ball on top of a fence 50 yards away and Travis Rubio can blast a bullet through the center of it with a muzzleloader-style rifle. ...more

June 15, 2009

A bipartisan group of senators took charge of the debate over the roughly $900 billion economic stimulus plan on Thursday, and was working furiously in backroom negotiations to cut the cost of the package. Senate Democratic leaders said they would await outcome of those talks before pushing for a final vote on the measure. ...more

February 6, 2009

When Danielle Nitzel found her three-year-old marriage drawing its last breath in 2004, she couldn't afford the minimum of $1,000 she was told she would need to hire a divorce lawyer. ...more

November 24, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the Obama transition team. ...more

November 13, 2008

I am now 89 years old and feel this is my last chance to get the message of the advantages of gun control to the public. ...more

December 25, 2007

With pitchforks and heavy coats, three teenage cousins brave below-freezing temperatures and learn how to pitch straw into a sheep pen - something their teacher, 27-year-old Matt McClain, has been doing since he was a kid. ...more

December 23, 2007