1. Nuclear safety officials say they're concerned that seawater near Japan's troubled nuclear power plant contains radiation more than 3,300 times the legal limit. But they insist it's not a threat to human health. Meanwhile the president of the comp
1. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with a representative of the Libyan opposition this morning. The meeting was ahead of a broader conference on political solutions to secure Moammar Gadhafi's exit. The visit follows President Obama's s
1. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is appealing to President Barack Obama to end the air war in a letter calling it an unjust war against a small people of a developing country. 2. In Ivory Coast, fighters trying to force strongman Laurent Gbagbo out o
1. The world's largest passenger aircraft clipped a much smaller commuter plane at New York City's Kennedy Airport, spinning it like a toy. An aviation safety expert says it's more like the Air France A380 creamed the regional jet, while the NTSB is
1. The top Republican in the Senate has a new idea on how to solve the nations debt limit problem. Senator Mitch McConnell says President Barack Obama should have the power to unilaterally increase the debt limit, so it's not to default on U.S. oblig
1. The half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been killed. Ahmed Wali Karzai was assassinated by a bodyguard at his home in Kandahar. Hamid Karzai says his brother's death reflects the suffering of all Afghan people. 2. Wikileaks founder J
1. Britain's News of the World published for the last time Sunday. News Corp head Rupert Murdoch visited as the 168-year-old paper closed up shop. The closure was announced last week as the paper was caught up in a phone hacking scandal. 2. Atlantis
1. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. and its allies are close to beating al-Qaeda. He was in Afghanistan today, and says the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has yielded new insights about the groups other leaders. 2. Theres a new country
1. Republicans meet again with President Barack Obama looking for an agreement on the Nation's borrowing limit. Earlier Monday House Speaker John Boehner said he agrees with the president that the debt limit need to be raised, but the Republicans wou
1. More meetings ahead for dealing with the debts. President Barack Obama says both parties will sit down on Sunday for some hard bargaining, trying to get a deal done by August 2nd to raise the debt limit. 2. Casey Anthony could be getting out of ja
1. Republican John Boehner has assumed the gavel as speaker of the House, drawing the curtain on the history-making Nancy Pelosi era. Pelosi, a Democrat, was the first woman to rise to the speaker's post. 2. The man who served as White House press se
1. President Barack Obama heads to Tucson today to attend a memorial service for the victims of Saturday's deadly rampage. Thousands are expected to attend the public memorial at the University of Arizona's basketball arena. Six people were killed in
1. Doctors say theyve left a breathing tube in Representative Gabrielle Giffords to protect her airway, but the congresswoman is drawing breaths on her own. She's alert and responding to doctors. The doctors now think Giffords may have been shot in t
1. The man accused of killing six people and severely wounding Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is expected to make his first court appearance today. Prosecutors have charged 22-year-old Jared Loughner with one count of attempted assassinatio
1. A surgeon says Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is able to communicate after being shot in the head yesterday. The doctor says Giffords responded to doctors' commands. The gunshot went through the left side of her head. Surgeons worked to
1. President Barack Obama says the latest jobs report shows the economy is heading in the right direction. The report shows the country's unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 %, the lowest level since May of 2009. 2. Republicans in the House are one step
1. At least five people are dead and Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition following a shooting that happened outside a Tucson, Arizona, supermarket as Giffords was meeting with constituents. Hospital officials say Giff
1. An angry online posting from the 17-year-old who opened fire at a Nebraska high school is offering clues about the violence. Authorities say Robert Butler killed an assistant principal and wounded the principal before fatally shooting himself. But
1. The 112th Congress will be sworn in today with incoming House Speaker John Boehner taking the gavel from Nancy Pelosi. House Republicans say the first order of business would be to repeal the health care bill that was passed just last year. 2. The
1. The Navy has permanently removed a senior officer from command of an aircraft carrier over raunchy comedy videos he made and showed to the crew. The Navy says Captain Owen Honors showed extremely poor judgment in the videos. 2. House Speaker Nancy