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President Barack Obama has agreed to curtail future cost-of-living hikes for Social Security and softened his demand for higher taxes on the rich in talks to avoid the ‘‘fiscal cliff,’’ people familiar with the talks said.

Crocket Keller, the owner of a Texas gun store, offered a discount for teachers who wanted to buy guns after the Connecticut school shooting.

Six-year-old Noah Pozner was one of 20 schoolchildren and six adults gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday. Here is the full text of the eulogies given Monday night by Pozner's mother and uncle.

After eight decades of public service, Hawaii Sen. Dan Inouye passed away at 88 Monday due to respiratory problems.

It's been two years since a Tunisian vendor set off the Arab Spring. Here's a rundown of where things stand now, from Morocco to Kuwait.

Walmart has pulled the Bushmaster AR-15 after it was used in the Sandy Hook shooting

The Obama Administration has received petitions for and against gun control with supporters so far outweighing opponents.

After President Barack Obama promised “meaningful action” on gun control following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 children were killed, a California senator said she would introduce a bill to ban assault weapons.

Sandy Hook has spurred calls to regulate guns, from senators and the president, with the first focus of attention being an assault weapon ban.

Asian markets were mixed Monday as investors remained cautious, as an agreement between the U.S. Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama in adopting measures to overcome the looming fiscal cliff remains elusive.

President Obama spoke at the Sandy Hook interfaith prayer vigil at the Newtown (Conn.) High School Sunday night. Here's what he had to say.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday failed to present any real ideas about how to address the metastasizing problem of random gun violence.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's ailing health is back in the news after she fainted and sustained a concussion last week.

Von I. Meyer was arrested in Indiana while in possession of 47 guns after he allegedly threatened on Friday to kill people at a local elementary school.

The California senator, reacting tothe Newtown school massacre, said Sunday she will introduce a gun control bill on the first day of the next Congress.

President Barack Obama visited Newtown, Conn., to honor the victims of the school shooting and console their families. Now what?

Asian stock markets mostly ended with gains last week as sentiment was buoyed by hope that policymakers in Japan would soon announce stimulus measures to boost the growth of the world’s third-largest economy while a private survey showed a rise in Chinese manufacturing activity in December.

The 20 children and six adults slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Friday were named by the Connecticut State Police Saturday.

The White House will be forced to comment on gun-control petitions that have gained momentum since the mass shooting at a Connecticut school Friday.

In the wake of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., White House spokesman Jay Carney said now is not the time to discuss gun control, but across the Internet, that's exactly what people are doing.

Once again, Democrats and advocates ask the president to act.