1. A long line of severe storm is making its way across the US. Four people are dead after a possible tornado touchdown about 30 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas. Three people died in other parts of the state. Residents across the Midwest are pre...
1. The White House says sanctions may be coming against Syria with the US condemning violent crackdown on anti-government protesters there. More than 300 people have been killed. 2. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour says he is not running for presid...
1. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' husband says she's been cleared to attend his shuttle launch on Friday. Mark Kelly revealed the news in an interview with CBS's Katie Couric. Giffords is recovering at a Huston hospital after a shooting rampage th...
1. Pope Benedict is calling for diplomacy and dialogue to replace arms and fighting in Libya. Celebrating Mass in St. Petersburg, Benedict contrasted war and hunger with the joy of Easter Sunday. 2. The Libyan government says its army has been holdin...
1. St. Louis officials are hoping to get the city's main air port up and running at least partially on Sunday. A strong storm and a tornado hit the city overnight. Homes, businesses, as well as Lambert Airport were heavily damaged. 2. Rebel fire has...
1. A minute of silence at BP, marking the first anniversary of the explosion that killed 11 oil workers in the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal says his state is still recovering. It was the worst offshore oil spill in American history...
1. It was a year ago today that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico burst into flames, killing 11 workers. For 85 days after that, 206 million gallons of BP oil spilt into the Gulf. Today, families of the 11 workers will fly over the scene, and there wi...
1. President Barack Obama is predicting that there will eventually be a compromise on spending priorities. However, he told a Virginia audience that while hes looking for shared sacrifices, Republicans want to spare the rich. 2. NATO military command...
1. Stocks plunged as Standard Poor's Rating Service lowered the long term outlook on US debt to negative from stable. SP says it has little confidence that Washington will produce a deficit reduction plan before the 2012 elections. 2. North Carolina...
1. North Carolina's governor plans to tour areas of the state Monday that were hit hard by Saturday's ferocious storm system that claimed at least 21 lives across the state. The violent weather began Thursday and killed at least 45 people across six...
1. The confirmed death toll from wild storms in North Carolina has risen to more than 20. In Bladen County alone, 82 homes were damaged and 25 destroyed. At least 43 people died in three days of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Virginia. 2. New work rules...
1. More than a dozen deaths are being blamed on a series of severe storms that have ripped through the South. Tornadoes spotted across the region. Fatalities are being reported in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma. 2. The government is chan...
1. Congress is moving forward with passing this year's budget. The House has approved a 38-billion-dollar package of spending cuts. House Speaker John Boehner says this deal is a move in the right direction. 2. The head of the Federal Aviation Admini...
1. Congress is set to vote today on last week's budget deal which last until September. Next, lawmakers will start the budget battle for 2012, which maybe a tougher fight than this fight that almost shut down the government. Republican and White Hous...
1. President Barack Obama has outlined his ideas on ways to cut national spending. The president wants to cut four trillion dollars over a dozen years, through cuts in the growth of Medicare spending, cuts in defense and an end to some tax loopholes,...
