Reid: Democrats to ease cuts with war savings
WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat in the Senate says he'll press ahead with new legislation to repeal automatic spending cuts that are now beginning to sting.

NEW YORK -- Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has returned to the forum that led to his political downfall in 2011, launching a new Twitter account.
WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat in the Senate says he'll press ahead with new legislation to repeal automatic spending cuts that are now beginning to sting.
WASHINGTON -- Presidential campaigns are long in the making, quick to be forgotten. But one part of them lives on for years: the victor's promises.
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is criticizing attempts by some to link the Boston Marathon bombings to legislation to overhaul the U.S. immigration system.
WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama will observe a moment of silence Monday to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday began a weeklong trip to the Middle East to consult with Israeli leaders on Syria's civil war and Iran's nuclear program and to discuss a set of U.S. arms deals with Israel and two Arab countries.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has spoken by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the investigation into the Boston Marathon attacks.
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department says Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller are briefing President Barack Obama at the White House on developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.
WASHINGTON -- Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Barack Obama is turning to actions within his own power to keep people from buying a gun who are prohibited for mental health reasons.
BOSTON -- President Barack Obama declared "there is a piece of Boston in me" as he paid tribute to a city shaken by what he has called an act of terror. He said: "Every one of us stands with you."
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, popular with conservatives and libertarians in the GOP, said Wednesday he is considering a presidential campaign in 2016 but will not make a decision before next year.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate sergeant-at-arms says a private lab has confirmed the presence of ricin in a letter sent to Sen. Roger Wicker.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and his gun control allies say Senate rejection of expanded background checks and other restrictions won't stop their drive to reduce firearms violence. But their path to enacting gun curbs this year seems blocked by the National Rifle Association, and supporters of restrictions appear befuddled about what it will take to push legislation through this Congress.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Rick Scott will be announcing whether or not the state's unemployment rate is still dropping.
WASHINGTON -- Michigan Sen. Carl Levin says preliminary testing on a suspicious letter to his Saginaw office was negative.
WASHINGTON -- The Senate has rejected a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers in a crucial showdown over gun control.
WASHINGTON -- Letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator that tested positive for poisonous ricin are related and both are postmarked Memphis, Tenn., the FBI said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON -- Letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks Wednesday, and authorities chased reports of other suspicious mail at a U.S. Capitol already on edge.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is meeting with a group of Senate Democrats, discussing gun control, immigration and the budget over dinner at a hotel near the White House.
KAUFMAN, Texas -- The wife of a former North Texas judge was charged with capital murder after confessing to her involvement in the three shooting deaths of the local district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor, authorities said Wednesday.