Ken Stanford

The stock market hit a record high Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's surprise decision to keep its economic stimulus in place.

The governors and lawmakers from South Carolina and Georgia have promised cooperation on water management issues in the Savannah River Basin.

Desperation mounted Wednesday in the cut-off resort of Acapulco, where residents looted a store and thousands of exhausted, despondent tourists waited to be ferried out by air. The death toll in massive flooding in southern and central Mexico rose to 57.

House GOP leaders Wednesday announced that they will move quickly to raise the government's borrowing cap by attaching a wish list of GOP priorities like blocking "Obamacare," forcing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and setting the stage for reforming the loophole-cluttered tax code.

The White House says President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service on Sunday for the victims of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.