The Senate has rejected Democratic and Republican plans for averting a doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students.

A Senate panel has approved a $631 billion defense budget for next year, the same amount that President Barack Obama proposed for the military.

President Barack Obama has nominated an expert on nuclear waste to lead the federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants.

The Senate has passed a bill that would increase inspections of foreign drug manufacturers, among other measures designed to assure the safety of the nation's increasingly imported drug supply.

The Justice Department's internal ethics watchdog says two prosecutors in the bungled corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens engaged in reckless professional misconduct by failing to disclose information favorable to the defense.

Mitt Romney is facing tough questions about how his education proposals would affect black communities.

Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase.

A Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. get Osama bin Laden by slashing aid by $33 million.

Rep. Charles Rangel got an endorsement Wednesday for his re-election campaign from a man who had run against him in the Democratic primary in 2010.

An auction house in the Channel Islands has cancelled the auction of a vial containing dried blood residue said to be of the former U.S. president.