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The Senate headed toward an overwhelming vote Monday in favor of big changes in the military justice system to deal with sexual assault, including scrapping the nearly century-old practice of using a 'good soldier defense' to raise doubts that a crime has been committed.

In this Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

The Obama administration says it's pulling the plug on proposed changes to the Medicare prescription program that ran into strong opposition on Capitol Hill.

The California city of Vallejo emerged from bankruptcy just over two years ago, but it is still struggling to pay its bills.

Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, knows when his patients' hearts are racing or their blood pressure is on the rise, even if they're sitting at home.

A pilot program that uses GPS technology to monitor when alleged domestic violence offenders get too close to their victims has shown promise in Ramsey County, say authorities who want to continue offering it as an option to help keep victims safe.

President Barack Obama got out on a Florida golf course Saturday with two former professional athletes and the cousin of one of his top advisers.

The biggest news to hit the Legislature this week won't come from the Capitol but from the Department of Revenue, which is expected to report Colorado's first statewide recreational marijuana tax numbers.

Voters in this stretch of beach towns and retirement communities provide the first 2014 campaign test of whether Democrats can counter GOP attacks on the president's health care overhaul by accusing Republicans of threatening popular benefit programs for the elderly.

Two key figures in a political payback plot that has overshadowed Gov. Chris Christie's administration for two months will attempt to convince a judge that they should not be forced to turn over documents to a legislative investigatory panel.

Dr. Terry Rabinowitz, back to camera, talks with nurse Leslie Orelup at Helen Porter Nursing Home on in Burlington, Vt.

From rusted six-shooters to semi-automatic weapons, hundreds of guns line the walls of a Desert Hot Springs police storage room.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex. spoke at the annual CPAC Conference days before his appearance at the Gridiron Dinner.

California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has discussed with Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy leaders an Army review that disqualified 588 soldiers from posts as sexual assault counselors and whether those services should follow the Army's lead.

The career criminal whose participation in a notorious murder spurred California's so-called three strikes law has been arrested again.

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said TV licence dodgers could escape criminal charges under plans being examined by Government to ease the pressure on courts TV licence dodgers could escape criminal charges under plans being examined by Government to ease the pressure on courts by making non-payment a civil offence.

Banning the sale of electronic cigarettes to kids may seem like a no-brainer, yet Gov. Rick Snyder's administration and a number of health advocacy groups oppose legislation that does just that.

A pregnant mother who drove her minivan filled with her three children into the Atlantic Ocean was charged with murder Friday after the children told police, "Mom tried to kill us."

The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School."