A decade after the United States launched two wars that put women at the front lines of unconventional fighting, the Pentagon crept closer Thursday to formally allowing them to serve in combat by announcing an additional 14,000 combat-related jobs for female service members.
If Mitt Romney needs some good news in an otherwise lousy week, he might find it in an improbable place: the packed hallways of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
Democrats are deeply divided over President Barack Obama's new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees amid fresh signs that the administration was scrambling for a way out.
FORT PIERCE — Two former Riverside National Bank board members said the bank never wrote off loans for board members after a federal audit report about the failed bank stated board members and their families had millions of dollars of loans forgiven as the bank collapsed.
Mitt Romney is in danger of losing his fourth straight state in Saturday's caucuses in Maine, where he and his allies have been all but absent from TV.
Vice President Joe Biden says he believes the Obama administration can address concerns raised by the Catholic church and religious groups about a new birth control policy that says church-affiliated employers must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees.
President Barack Obama is praising Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti for his efforts to lead Italy out of its fiscal quagmire. The president says Monti has boosted confidence in Italy and in the European marketplace.
WASHINGTON — California and Southern farmers renewed their case Thursday for some kind of an agricultural guest-worker program, but they're sailing against the wind.
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday to curb insider trading by members of Congress and the executive branch, but not without the usual political acrimony that's become a staple of Capitol Hill.
Vice President Joe Biden says he's convinced America is better positioned than other nations to continue to lead the world's economy - whether or not his boss is still in charge.
President Barack Obama says his decision to free 10 states from the No Child Left Behind education law will give the flexibility they need to set high standards for students and hold schools accountable.
Florida has been granted a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law, which will free it from complicated school accountability rules and allow it to use its school grading system as the sole judge of public education.
President Barack Obama says a $25 billion settlement between mortgage lenders and states over foreclosure abuses "will begin to turn the page on an era of recklessness that has left so much damage in its wake."
The State Department's internal watchdog has cleared the agency of any impropriety in its review of a permit for a controversial pipeline that that would carry Canadian oil across the continental United States.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is defending his use of spending earmarks in Congress, saying some were necessary for defense or health programs.
Six months after officials at the South Florida Water Management District investigated a claim that the longtime Okeechobee County Property Appraiser was grazing cattle on district land without a lease, the Property Appraiser's daughter signed a deal to graze cattle on the land.
The Obama administration says health plans must start providing more consumer-friendly summaries of coverage and costs so people will know what protection they have.
The White House plans to announce a more optimistic jobs forecast this month, based in part on the shaky premise that Congress will pass President Barack Obama's economic agenda.
Congressional Democrats are urging a modest six-week cut in the number of weeks that unemployed workers can receive jobless benefits as House-Senate talks on a payroll tax cut slowly inch along.
The U.S. Postal Service is reporting quarterly losses of $3.3 billion, hurt by declining mail volume and mounting costs for future retiree health benefits.
Palm Beach Post | Posted: February 9, 2012 8:56 AM
A new report on misconduct at the Federal Air Marshal Service says that, despite employees' "extensive" suspicions of retaliation and discrimination, those problems are not "widespread" in the agency.
Palm Beach Post | Posted: February 9, 2012 8:29 AM
A Deerfield Beach man who has formed political groups for supermodels and Taco Bell customers could face more than $2 million in fines from the Florida Elections Commission after being accused of filing false campaign finance reports.
Sen. John McCain says the United States should find ways to help the Syrian people under siege from President Bashar Assad, without putting American "boots on the ground."
