Bryan Pirkle

Georgia officials facing a short timeline to replace the statewide student test could take a major step on Thursday.

House Democrats opened the door Tuesday to participating in a special panel's investigation of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, even if they see it as little more than an election-year ploy by Republicans to discredit the Obama administration and motivate GOP voters.

President Barack Obama is telling Latino lawmakers and Hispanic advocates that they should press House Republicans to act on a broad overhaul of immigration laws.

Saying his mind was scarred by combat and numbed by heroin, an Army soldier told a southeast Georgia judge Thursday that he shot a teenage girl twice in the head because he thought he saw ``the glint of a gun'' as she opened her car door.

Deciding which party controls the Senate for the final two years of President Barack Obama's tenure could come down to women - both the handful who are running in significant races and the moderate female voters who often make the difference in close elections.

Gov. Nathan Deal has signed a bill into law restricting abortion coverage in plans for state employees and those sold on the insurance exchange as part of the federal health care law.

Warren Buffett criticized Coca-Cola's pay plan for its executives on Wednesday.

Swan Lockett had high hopes that President Barack Obama's health overhaul would lead her family to an affordable insurance plan, but that hasn't happened.

Federal authorities have tracked down another person charged in the kidnapping of a North Carolina prosecutor's father.

Marking Christianity's most hopeful day, Pope Francis made an Easter Sunday plea for peace and dialogue in Ukraine and Syria, for an end to terrorist attacks against Christians in Nigeria and for more attention to the hungry and neediest close to home.