Panetta opens combat roles to women
The decision opens hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war.
The decision opens hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war.
The Nevada Democrat told reporters Wednesday the Senate would pass the bill "as quickly as possible."
A law enforcement official says Texas authorities have at least one person in custody in connection to the Lone Star College campus shooting in Houston, and local authorities think there could potentially be a second shooter.
A Las Vegas police officer killed his wife and child, set his house on fire, and committed suicide inside the home.
Nehemiah Griego is being accused of fatally shooting his family and tells police he had been having homicidal and suicidal thoughts.
Kids who eat lots of fast food have an increased risk of the most common chronic illness in children.
The vote marks a change in strategy for House Republicans who run the chamber.
The presidential motorcade arrived shortly after 8:30 a.m. under crisp, cold skies outside the sanctuary.
A group of park rangers discovered an old shipwreck buried underneath the sand on an island in Georgia.
A teenage boy in New Mexico fatally shot two adults and three children in an Albuquerque home and is still under investigation.
President Barack Obama will take oath again on Monday in public for his second term.
Punjab Singh is a Sikh priest who suffered severe head injuries after last summer’s shooting and is now beginning to show signs of awareness.
Marijuana is now legalized in Washington and Colorado and it is still uncertain whether pot will be produced on farms.
Hospital officials called police after the woman arrived for treatment Wednesday.
Standard & Poor's 500 index closed at another five-year high.
There's concern that lithium batteries can leak corrosive fluid and start fires in Boeing's newest plane.
Obama's ideas include bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
He says she fell partially down a 20-foot wall and stuck three or four feet off the ground.
Zuckerberg says the search feature is "privacy aware."
The containers were being stored at the Cook County morgue while authorities investigated the matter.
Winfrey said the interview will now run in two parts over two nights because there is so much material.
Mohamed Mohamud waited minutes to tell an FBI undercover agent that he wanted to detonate a bomb.
The government has hit its $16.4 trillion borrowing limit and is expected to run out of ways to meet all of its obligations around March 1.
"Les Miserables" was named best musical or comedy, while Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway claimed acting prizes.
The president of the National Rifle Association comments that a ban on weapons is long from passing.
