NORFOLK, Va. -- The U.S. Air Force plans to ground about a third of its active-duty force of combat planes and a top general warned Tuesday that the branch might not be able to respond immediately to every event when needed.The Air Force didn't immediately release a list of the specific units ...
WASHINGTON -- The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program - the military's health care system.Despite dire warnings from three defense secretaries about the uncontrollable cost, Congress has ...
WASHINGTON — Raul Labrador, a tea party favorite, has emerged as House Republicans’ go-to negotiator on immigration. He is unusually prepared for the task: The Puerto Rico-born Mormon convert is a lawyer fluent in Spanish who has represented undocumented residents fighting ...
SEATTLE -- The mountain snowpack in Washington is 112 percent of normal and the best in the West, where the average for other states is about 75 percent, a water supply specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service said Friday.Arizona is the lowest at 40 percent and the Southwest ...
MESQUITE, Nev. -- Five people are dead and four others critically injured after a crash involving an SUV and a van on Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.The Nevada Highway Patrol says the SUV rear-ended the van early Saturday, causing both vehicles to roll near Mesquite, about 80 miles northeast ...
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s former campaign manager is working with two Republican National Committee staff members to form America Rising, a conservative opposition research group, organizers said Thursday.The group will track Democrats who might run for president in 2016, with the goal of ...
WASHINGTON -- The eight senators meet in private several times a week, alternating between Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Charles Schumer's offices. They sit in arm chairs arranged in a circle and sip water or soft drinks as they debate temporary workers and border security. In a capital riven by ...
States with the most laws regulating firearms, including Massachusetts and New York, have the lowest gun-death rates from homicides and suicides, according to a study published by the American Medical Association.Physicians and researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University ...
WASHINGTON — One hundred seventeen days later, Mitt Romney still isn’t over it.Making his first public comments since losing last November’s presidential election, Romney appeared mystified still that the country didn’t see things his way. He went on the attack against President Barack ...
WASHINGTON — When two 16-year-olds died in a fiery Montgomery County, Md., car crash last March, their demise might have been used as an object lesson for teenage lawlessness. On Tuesday, their deaths became part of a larger, troubling statistic.Teenagers are dying in car crashes at a much ...
