The son of a man killed when he opened fire at a Las Vegas courthouse has been arrested in Tennessee after making numerous death threats, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday. Richard Earl Nelson, a 37-year-old ex-convict, was ordered held by U.S. Magistrate Diane ...

Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska is asking Senate leaders to eliminate a controversial Medicaid deal for his state in the health care bill. The moderate Democrat, who provided the crucial 60th vote for the Senate health care bill, has been criticized because Nebraska was exempted paying any cost ...

The Senate is where legislation often goes to die, and it's looking more and more like that's the fate awaiting a new jobs bill wanted by President Barack Obama. After barely limping out of the House last month, prospects for a deficit-financed jobs bill ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is discussing ways to help U.S. states cover costs that are destined to rise under pending healthcare reform legislation, his press secretary said on Monday. Many governors had protested a special funding allocation for Nebraska in the bill. "We're going to continue to work with governors," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told ...