President Barack Obama vowed Monday he would veto any cuts to Medicare unless Congress approves tax increases on the wealthiest Americans. “I will not support any plan that puts all the burden on closing our deficit on ordinary Americans,” Obama said. “We are not going to have a one-sided deal that hurts the folks who [...]

The National Institutes of Health will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the  Food and Drug Administration to develop a chip capable of screening new drugs for toxic material before tested on people. The chips will be loaded with specific cell types and would be able to deliver readouts showing how different [...]

Crew flights to the International Space Station will resume in November, preventing the station from being left empty. The Space Station Control Board, consisting of NASA and international partner space agencies, tentatively set Nov. 14 as the date to resume launches. Launches of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft have been on hold since a failed launch [...]

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s top auditor plans to ask the Justice Department to review whether an SEC lawyer broke conflict-of-interest rules during the agency’s investigation of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. According to Bloomberg, H. David Kotz, SEC inspector general, is completing a report on former counsel David Becker’s possible conflicts. Kotz and investigators [...]

Violent crime dropped significantly in 2010, according to FBI figures released Monday. The FBI’s annual “Crime in the United States” report says the estimated volume of violent crimes in 2010 dropped 6 percent, the fourth consecutive year it has declined. Robbery decreased the largest of all violent crimes, doing down 10 percent. Property crimes also [...]

The week of Sept. 18-24 will be marked to honor the National Guard and Reserve, President Barack Obama said Friday. Obama issued a proclamation calling on state and local officials, private organizations and military commanders to hold ceremonies and events in observation of National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week. “These patriots serve [...]

Marine Corps Sgt. Dakota Meyer, who saved 36 of his fellow soldiers’ lives during an ambush in Afghanistan, was awarded the Medal of Honor Thursday. Meyer received his medal at a White House ceremony, with President Barack Obama draping the blue ribbon around his neck. Meyer, a native of Columbia, Ky., was part of a [...]

Two senators are so concerned the Veterans Affairs Department may not have the funds it needs to handle veterans’ healthcare, that they put it in writing. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and ranking member Richard Burr (R-N.C.) sent a letter Thursday to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, requesting the department’s budget projections for [...]

Threatened cuts to defense approaching $1 trillion over the next 10 years could add 1 percent to the nation’s unemployment rate, a Defense Department official said Thursday. As part of the debt ceiling agreement reached in August, at least $350 billion is to be cut from the security budget over the next 10 years. The [...]

The Senate approved legislation Thursday for $6.9 billion in disaster aid funding until October 2012. However, Reuters reports the bill is unlikely to pass the House, where Republican leaders have insisted the disaster funds be offset with cuts in other spending. President Barack Obama had asked for $5.1 billion to help shore up disaster funds. [...]