AP 2011-12-22

1. House Republicans want the Senate return to Washington to keep working on a new version of a payroll tax cut extension. Members of the House GOP don't like the version the Senate pleaded and approved for leaving town for the holidays. 2. North Kor

AP 2011-12-23

1. The House has rejected a plan to extend a social security payroll tax cut for two months. Republican members are instead demanding that the Senate return to negotiate an extension for the entire year. President Barack Obama called the Senate's ver

AP 2011-12-21

1. House Speaker John Boehner says he opposes a Senate-approved bill extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months. He wants congressional bargainers to write a new measure that would last an entire year. 2. Tributes are appear

AP 2011-12-29

1. At stores around the country, it is the day to return gifts that did not quite measure up on Christmas morning. Others are coming armed with gift cards, hunting for sales. 2. In Maine, residents and businesses in the Waterville area offered a 30,0

AP 2011-12-31

1. GOP candidates for president are ramping up their campaigns in Iowa just days before the caucuses there. Several candidates are running to the state for advancing speeches. Mitt Romney however appeared in New Hampshire. 2. Police say neighbor has

AP 2011-12-30

1. A nine-year-old girl who was missing in Fort Wayne, Indiana has been found dead. A family friend who was babysitting Aliahna Lemmon has been charged with her murder. 2. Police in Maine are now offering a $30,000 reward as they search for missing t

AP 2011-12-27

1. It looks like Newt Gingrich won't be able to mount a write-in campaign for the Republican primary in Virginia after all. The Gingrich campaign had said that would be the path it would take, after state party officials said he failed to submit the

AP 2011-12-26

1. House Republicans have backed down. Speaker John Boehner says there's now an agreement to accept the Senate's bipartisan two-month payroll tax cut. President Barack Obama congratulated lawmakers for ending what he calls a bipartisan stalemate. 2.

AP 2011-12-25

1. The White House says President Barack Obama has called House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, to urge them to end the payroll tax cut standoff. Obama says he wants the House back in session to pass a two-month extension

AP 2011-12-24

1. Capitol Hill is in a stalemate heading into the holidays. House Republicans want Senators to return to Washington and negotiate a payroll tax cut extension after the House rejected a Senate measure. The tax goes up for workers January 1st if nothi

AP 2011-12-28

1. More than three dozen people have been killed in the terror attacks that were carried out across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect. Most of the victims died on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass. 2. The Mayor of Stamfor