Ken Stanford

Georgia will have to cover a $1 billion to $1.5 billion transportation funding gap to stay economically competitive, a committee of lawmakers is warning in a report issued Tuesday.

Impressed with an improving economy, American consumers are feeling more confident, a private survey showed.

Taking America off a permanent war footing is proving harder than President Barack Obama may have suggested.

House Republican leaders rallied around one of their own, Whip Steve Scalise, on Tuesday after he said he regrets speaking 12 years ago to a white supremacist organization and condemns the views of such groups.

President Vladimir Putin's chief political foe was convicted along with his brother on Tuesday in a fraud case widely seen as a vendetta by the Kremlin, triggering one of Russia's boldest anti-government demonstrations in years.

Since New Year

Stocks closed lower in the U.S. and elsewhere Tuesday as a new flare-up of political uncertainty in Greece has investors worrying about the stability of the euro again.

The first 50-state report on the latest sign-up season under President Barack Obama's health care law shows that more than 4 million people selected plans for the first time or re-enrolled in what the administration called "an encouraging start."

U.S. home prices rose in October at a slightly slower pace, as real estate sales have fallen and affordability has increasingly become a challenge for potential buyers.

A man who practiced dentistry in Gainesville for 38 years, Dr. Eddie Lee Jackson, has died.