Ken Stanford

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sought support from House conservatives Wednesday for far-reaching immigration legislation, but many lawmakers emerged from their meeting deeply skeptical of any comprehensive bill with a pathway to citizenship for immigrants here illegally.

The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

An Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the agency's latest scandal told lawmakers Thursday that an expensive conference held in 2010 conformed to existing rules, though he acknowledged it was not the best use of taxpayer money.

Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91.

Gainesville native Katie Deal, daughter of Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and first lady Sandra Deal, has been nominated for a Georgia country music award.

Gov. Nathan Deal and AT&T Georgia President Sylvia Russell announced Thursday that AT&T will hire workers for more than for 1,000 positions throughout Georgia, including nearly 600 new jobs.

A federal appeals court has decided to permit girls of any age to buy generic versions of emergency contraception without prescriptions while the federal government appeals a judge's ruling allowing the sales.

The GOP-controlled House voted Thursday to reject President Barack Obama's policy to end deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the country illegally who were brought to the United States as children.

A Republican senator is defending the practice of collecting millions of telephone records in the ongoing war on terror.