Tropical storm Katia is set to become a category 1 hurricane Wednesday and could be a category 3 Sunday. But the track gives little hint of whether tropical storm Katia will hit the US.

PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano planned on Wednesday to tour regions of New Jersey heavily damaged by flooding from Hurricane Irene.

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, chat as Rebecca Valdez, 4, sits during a visit to an early childhood development center in Dallas on Jan. 31, 2006.

Wildfires raging in parts of Texas and Oklahoma have displaced hundreds of residents, destroyed several dozen homes and threaten many more -- and officials say the region's unbearably hot, dry weather is only making it worse.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, addresses the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, in San Antonio.

In the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks, the US has failed to make sufficient progress on nine counter-terrorism actions, ranging from border screening to terrorist-detention standards, according to the former leaders of the ...

The lone Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus said Wednesday he's thinking of quitting the group over fellow members' comments trashing the tea party.

A father accused of throwing his 7-year-old son overboard during a cruise in Newport Harbor says he was just playing when he and the boy jumped in the water together.

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is releasing an economic plan today that will include a call for lowering the top federal tax rate on income to 23% and eliminating all taxes on capital gains and dividends.

McLEAN, Va. —Dick Cheney is confident of the rightness of the hawkish policies he espoused as vice president and the wrongness of his critics, then and now.

The brawl started when Muslim park-goers became upset that Playland was extending its ban on headgear to women who wished to wear their religious headgear while going on rides, the newspaper says.

In this exclusive clip provided by TLC to TODAY.com, mom Lindsay Jackson packs, stacks and re-arranges her daughter Maddy's faux breasts, all so she can do a little Dolly Parton routine on stage.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Wednesday that as union membership declines in the US, so does the number of people able to stay in the middle class.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Director Kenneth Melson is being moved out of the top job at the bureau, ATF special agents in charge announced during an internal conference call today.

AP WASHINGTON - In a farewell to the military after 37 years in uniform, Army Gen. David Petraeus on Wednesday said supporting the troops and their families must be the nation's "paramount objective" even as defense budgets are reduced.

By the CNN Wire Staff A Texas law would have required pregnant women to view a picture of the embryo or fetus before getting an abortion.

Wayne Sabaj, an unemployed man from the far northwest suburbs, went out to his garden in McHenry County on Monday to pick some of the vegetables for dinner and found a bag filled with $20 bills.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A suspicious package at a US Air Force base about 300 miles south of Chicago prompted the closure of parts of the facility on Wednesday, and three people have been sent to a hospital to be treated for possible chemical exposure.