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A gunman killed a police officer and another person on Thursday at Virginia Tech University, the site of one of the worst shooting rampages in U.S. history, school officials said.

Demonstrators from across the nation descended on Capitol Hill on Monday as part of a four-day effort to meet with congressional leaders to highlight the plight of U.S. unemployment.

Looking for the richest 1 percent? There's a gaggle roaming the Capitol Hill Rotunda. For all the focus on Wall Street's ills and the growing income disparity in America, a prominent target has been overlooked: Congress. Many lawmakers have enjoyed handsome levels of fiscal success.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (D-Va.) was the target of threatening phone calls Thursday, leading to the arrest of a Tennessee man.

During a speaking engagement at the University of Michigan on Monday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor implied he and the GOP does not support cutting or eliminating funding for Pell Grants, although his record says something different.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke out Monday against Republican Leader Eric Cantor's plan for the House to work just 109 days in 2012. Cantor defended his calendar, saying it allows members of Congress to do important work in their districts. But another key reason for the abbreviated schedule that Congress has followed for decades is the increasing importance of campaign finance, which leaves fundraising as top priority in an election year.

The American Jobs Act has picked up more than 90 endorsements in the House of Representatives in the past week.

To paraphrase singer Britney Spears, Oops, she did it again. In this case, she is conservative commentator/columnist Ann Coulter, who says the Occupy Wall Street protest movement is a mob and similar to mob uprisings.

On Tuesday night's episode of 'The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took aim at Republicans who claim that the growing 'Occupy' movement is a divisive phenomenon that pits Americans against other Americans.

The Occupy Wall Street movement marked its one-month anniversary Oct. 17 after four weeks of demonstrations that have since spread worldwide.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., will discuss income disparity in the U.S. during a major speech at the University of Pennsylvania this week. Cantor aide's said the speech will emphasize how Washington can help average citizens while making sure the people at the top stay there.

House Minority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., who earlier called the Occupy Wall Street coalition growing mobs, Sunday dropped that description of the activists, but he didn't apologize for his evaluation of the coalition seeking economic and fiscal policy reform.

Congress passed the Protect Life Act Thursday evening. The bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa), is an attempt to bar federal funds from going towards health care plans that cover abortions. The bill, HR 385, prohibits women who are under the Affordable Care Act to purchase health insurance plans that cover abortion, even though most health insurance plans do in fact cover abortions.

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the controversial 'Protect Life Act' on Thursday, legislation aimed at keeping every cent of federal money from funding abortion services.

When Paul Friedman met the rag-tag youth camped out near Wall Street to protest inequality in the American economy, he felt he was witnessing the start of a protest movement not seen in America since the 1960s.

Steve Jobs is dead, but his legacy will live on for decades to come. Here are the top 5 ways his work changed the world.

A five percent tax surcharge on the wealthiest that Senate Democrats propose would cover President Barack Obama's roughly $450 billion jobs package.

Facebook has been undergoing a lot of changes lately, to the chagrin of many, but the latest change has the social network taking on politics.

Republicans in the House of Representatives regrouped Friday to approve a must-pass spending bill, but the prospect of a government shutdown loomed as Democrats said it would go nowhere in the Senate.

Republicans in the House of Representatives regrouped after midnight Friday to approve a must-pass spending bill, but the prospect of a government shutdown loomed as Democrats said it would go nowhere in the Senate.

The House of Representatives unexpectedly defeated a bill to fund the federal government past Sept. 30 Wednesday evening as dozens of Republicans broke with their party to push for deeper spending cuts.