Addressing global warming is a top priority for President Obama and for a bipartisan group of senators who'll offer a bill Monday. But tough issues remain, and time is running out before this fall's elections.
Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the bill’s central architects, issued an angry protest over what he says are Democratic plans to give priority to a debate over immigration policy.
The fight for the midterm elections is not confined to traditional battlegrounds as voter discontent surges, threatening seats and Democratic control of Congress.
A Senate panel released messages Goldman Sachs executives sent in 2007 that appear to contradict its suggestion that it lost money on the housing market.
AP - Tornadoes ripped through four states in the South on Saturday, leaving broken crosses in front of a flattened church, splintering houses and overturning vehicles as they killed 10 people, including three children.
AP - The Coast Guard discovered Saturday that oil is leaking from the damaged well that fed a massive rig that exploded this week off Louisiana's coast, while bad weather halted efforts to clean up the mess that threatens the area's fragile marine ecosystem.
A growing number of conservationists in ultra-urban Hong Kong are acting to save the city's natural heritage, including a pink dolphin population that swims in the brackish waters to the north.
Shiites in Iraq on Saturday mourned the victims of Friday's bombings in Baghdad, a wave of attacks thought to be retaliation for the killings of two top militants.