Two people have been arrested in connection with the attack on a soldier at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.

Republican and Democratic congressional leaders are stepping up their war of words over a looming lame-duck session that is already being described as "chaos in Congress," as they gird for a marathon debate tackling everything from the debt ceiling to hundreds of billions of dollars in scheduled tax hikes. 

A top Obama campaign surrogate chastised the president's reelection team Sunday over its ad campaign attacking Mitt Romney's record at private equity firm Bain Capital. 

An Arizona sheriff has allegedly ignored a Pentagon rule, collecting millions of dollars' worth of surplus military equipment that is intended for law-enforcement use and distributing some of the gear to non-police agencies.