Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up her trip to Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and China on Sunday. Her aim was to reenergize key ties to the region.
AP - As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associated Press investigation shows.
AP - President Barack Obama plans to announce Monday a former Secret Service agent who helped expose lobbyists' corruption at the Interior Department as his pick to oversee the $787 billion economic stimulus plan.
Several Republican governors say they plan to turn down a portion of what's offered in the stimulus bill that President Obama signed last week. "If we were to take the unemployment reform package that they have, it would cause us to raise taxes on employment when the money runs out," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told CNN's "State of the Union" today.
Fourteen-year-old Amber Leeanne DuBois left for school on February 13 with a check in hand, a down payment on a baby lamb she was going to raise. It was a day that she'd been looking forward to for more than a year, her family says. But she never made it to school in Escondido, California, and hasn't been heard from since.
An 11-year-old boy is facing adult charges in the shooting death of his father's pregnant girlfriend, authorities said Saturday. Police say the boy shot 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk, once at pointblank range in her farmhouse in western Pennsylvania.