Even the White House's top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for looking to talking points written on her palm during a speech to "tea party" activists.

As President Obama meets with Republican leaders at the White House this morning, he's already made progress on one goal of the meeting: Getting more of his appointees confirmed by the Senate.

Bipartisan job-creating legislation that could pass the Senate this week will include money for highway repairs and tax breaks for small businesses, Senate Democrats said on Tuesday.

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the U.S. government will be repaid in full for the funds it put into the country's lenders.

Endeavour's astronauts are closing in on the International Space Station and aim to dock at the outpost early Wednesday, winding up a two-day trip from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Toyota has announced a worldwide recall of 437,000 hybrids, including the popular 2010 Toyota Prius over brake issues. The company announced that the fix will come via a software "patch" for the antilock braking system.

Persistence pays off for a Nashua fourth-grader who has learned the power of writing a simple letter.

Businessman Farouk Shami and former Houston Mayor Bill White squared off Monday in their only statewide televised debate before the March 2 primary.

Nebraska's Democratic senator says he will join Republicans in opposing a union lawyer's nomination to serve on the National Labor Relations Board.

Sri Lanka's former army chief and presidential candidate general Sarath Fonseka adresses the media on February 3 in Colombo.

A soldier has been accused of simulating drowning, pushing his four-year-old daughter's face underwater because she was unable to recite the alphabet. Joshua Tabor, 27, is a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington.

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., the powerful and controversial chairman of the House subcommittee responsible for defense funding, died Monday, leaving a huge hole in the Democratic Party's national security team.

using national security issues as a "political football" for their own gains

President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser on Sunday lashed out at U.S. lawmakers, accusing them of using national security issues as a "political football" for their own gains.

Explosion Kills At Least 5

UPDATE : As rescuers work to determine how they can safely search an unstable section of the Kleen Energy plant, state and Middletown police detectives are trying to come up with a list of workers who were at the plant when it was damaged in an explosion Sunday.

China Investment Corp. offered a rare glimpse into its U.S. equity holdings over the weekend, revealing an affection for resources companies as well as household consumer names such as Apple Computer and Coca Cola, which make up part of its $9.63 billion portfolio of U.S.-listed assets, the sovereign wealth fund said in a regulatory filing.

U.S. economy will be strong enough to operate without the interventions

As much as the Federal Reserve is trying to ease credit for small businesses, it is already looking ahead to a time when it will bring its policy closer to what it knew before the financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports.

American International Group Inc. named Peter Hancock, described by a former employer as an "architect" of the derivatives business, to oversee finance and risk, including the insurer's money-losing credit-default swap unit.

Shuttle launch lights the night for last time Space shuttle Endeavour blazes a path spaceward through the pre-dawn sky on the last shuttle night launch.

The announcement that Focus on the Family was going to air a Super Bowl ad caused a lot of controversy. Yesterday, CBS aired two versions of the ad, but they were both very light, gentle, and not really worthy of the big bruhaha they caused.