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Eastern U.S. hit by heat wave, power outages
WASHINGTON - Blistering heat blanketed much of the eastern United States for the third straight day on Sunday, after violent storms killed at least 13 people and knocked out power to more than 3 million customers. | Video
Florida says no to two healthcare law features
WASHINGTON - Florida will not implement two provisions of the U.S. healthcare law involving an expansion of Medicaid for the poor and creation of a private insurance exchange, Governor Rick Scott said on Sunday.
New Jersey's Christie presses legislators on taxes
NEW YORK - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stepped up his state budget battle with Democrats by calling for a special session of the legislature on Monday to lecture his opponents on the need for middle-class tax relief.
People return to charred cities after Colorado wildfires
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Residents began returning to charred areas of Colorado Springs on Sunday after the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and left the landscape a blackened wasteland. | Video
Analysis: Stockton, California new paradigm for struggling cities
NEW YORK - Stockton, California, the largest city in the United States to ever file for bankruptcy, could create a new template for struggling cities and potentially lift the stigma that scars municipalities if they seek court protection from creditors.
North Carolina governor rejects fracking law
RALEIGH, North Carolina - North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue on Sunday vetoed legislation that would have lifted a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and opened the door to shale gas exploration in that state.
America's Generation Y not driven to drive
WASHINGTON - To Shoshana Gurian-Sherman, driving seemed like a huge hassle.
Marathon swimmer fails to complete Cuba-U.S. journey
KEY WEST, Florida - Marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey, who failed on Sunday to complete a record breaking 103-mile (166-km) swim from Cuba to the United States, was bested by mighty Gulf Stream currents, her husband said.
Mourners remember Rodney King as figure of healing
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of mourners remembered Rodney King, a symbol of racial tension in Los Angeles and catalyst for sweeping law-enforcement reforms after his 1991 beating by police officers, as a figure of national healing at a public memorial before his burial on Saturday. | Video
Emails raise questions about former Penn State officials: CNN
- Correspondence between senior Penn State University officials show they feared they could be "vulnerable" for failing to report to authorities allegations that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had abused a boy in a university locker room, CNN reported on Saturday.
MA governor puts Romney in healthcare bear hug
Before there was Obamacare with its controversial individual mandate on health insurance, there was Romneycare in Massachusetts….with a similar mandate that all residents of the state obtain health insurance or pay a penalty. And Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick was happy to remind Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican candidate for President, of that fact.
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