1. With just a week to go until the presidential inauguration, event organizers held a dress rehearsal in Washington to prepare for President Barack Obamas swearing in ceremony and parade. The practice was complete with stand-ins for the president an...
1.President Barack Obama has nominated Jack Lew to be the nation's next Treasury Secretary, it is clear that president's chief step before he met Jack a year ago with the services of White House budget director. 2.Vice-president Joe Biden says he wil...
1. Vice President Joe Biden meets with the National Rifle Association today as the White House looks at ways to curb gun violence. Biden has promised urgent action in the wake of last month's elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. 2. Pre...
1. Eleven people were seriously hurt after a ferry crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan. Passengers waiting to disembark were hurled to the deck or into walls at impact. The cause of the accident is under investigation. 2. The New York City fire de...
1.A 911 tap played in a court room Tuesday reviews gunfire and a raid nearly shot a second inside the Colorado movie theatre last summer, prosecutors linked out the case during a plain trial hearing for James Holmes, charged with killing 12 and wound...
1. President Barack Obama is nominating former GOP Senator Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him the leader our troops deserve. he also chose White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the CIA. 2. Prosecutors are layin...
1.President Barack Obama has returned to Washington after a winter vacation in Hawaii that was interuptted by the fiscal cliff crisis, it will be a heading into a business week, that includes possible nominations for the defense secreatry and the CIA...
1.Four people have died following a overnight stand off at the rural Colorado, police say it looks llike three adult victims were killed before officiers arrived at the scene, and the suspect died during a gunfire with police. 2.President Obama is he...
1. The Senate has joined the House in approving legislation providing 9.7 billion dollars to pay flood insurance claims for the many home and business owners hurt by Superstorm Sandy. The votes come more than two months after the storm hit. 2. The US...
1. The 113th Congress is now in session. The House reelected John Boehner as speaker. And in the Senate, Vice President Joe Biden swore in 12 new members elected in November along with South Carolina Republican Tim Scott. 2. The State Department says...
1.Congress will not be the Monday deadline of midnight to get a vote of avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff, president Obama says a deal may be close, but it is not there yet. 2.The National Transportation Safety Board is sending investigators to Ore...
1.Congress will not be the Monday deadline of midnight to get a vote of avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff, president Obama says a deal may be close, but it is not there yet. 2.The National Transportation Safety Board is sending investigators to Ore...
1. They were up late on the phone, and Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell are expected to keep talking to avoid automatic tax increases and budget cuts set to go into effect with the New Year. But for now Republican...
1. Congressional leaders huddled the White House where they may hear about a limited proposal from the President aimed at avoid the tax increases and spending cuts taking effect next week. 2. Traffic will keep moving at east coast ports after a deal...
1. There is a White House meeting on the fiscal cliff Friday but no sign a deal is in the works. The meeting could be a make-or-break moment for negotiations to avoid across-the-board first of the year tax increases and deep spending cuts. 2. A longs...
