Strange Bedfellows: Business, Labor on ImmigrationUnlikely allies, business and labor leaders joined in support of the White House's immigration overhaul efforts Tuesday while also launching high-stakes negotiations to overcome an issue that has split them before — creating a guest-worker program to ensure future immigrants …
Analysis: Obama, GOP Disagree, Again, on SpendingAfter two tumultuous years of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress finally agree on something — namely, that a previous 10-year pact to cut $1 trillion across the board was such a bad idea it must be …
FBI: Ala. Captor Rigged Bunker, Waged 'Firefight'As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage in an underground bunker, the captor was planning for violence, authorities say.
AP Source: Outdoor Retail Exec. Picked for InteriorPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday will nominate business executive and former engineer Sally Jewell to lead the Interior Department, an administration official said.
Tunisian Opposition Leader Killed Amid TensionsA Tunisian opposition leader critical of both the Islamist-led government and of violence by radical Muslims was gunned down as he left home Wednesday—the first assassination in post-revolutionary Tunisia.
Business, Unions Negotiating Guest Worker ProgramBusiness leaders and labor union officials are delving into high-stakes negotiations over a particularly contentious element of immigration reform—a guest worker program to ensure future immigrants come here legally.
Small Ala. Town: Relief that Child Hostage is SafeA 5-year-old boy was back with his ecstatic family and playing with his toy dinosaur after his nearly weeklong ordeal as a hostage in an underground bunker was ended by a sudden police raid and the death of his kidnapper.
Obama Seeks to Avoid Sequester with Short-Term FixPresident Barack Obama will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1.
Dell in $24.4B Founder-Led Deal to Go PrivateSlumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since the Great Recession dried up the financing for such risky maneuvers.
Plan July 6 to Outline Spending of BP Spill FinesThe committee set up to manage most environmental fines going to the states affected by the BP oil spill of 2010 says it will release its plan July 6.
Obama Says Boy Scouts Should Allow Gays as MembersPresident Barack Obama said Sunday that gays should be allowed in the Boy Scouts and women should be allowed in military combat roles, weighing in on two storied American institutions facing proposals to end long-held exclusions.