Police: Sen. Rand Paul's teenage son arrested

19-year-old arrested at North Carolina airport for underage drinking, disorderly conduct

• Jan 7, 2013

Obama to nominate Brennan, Hagel for Cabinet

Sources confirm both choices for CBS News; Hagel pick for Pentagon already proving controversial and Brennan's, for CIA may, as well

• Jan 7, 2013

McConnell: Dems have "voracious appetite" for taxes

Senate minority leader maintains the debate over taxes "is over"

• Jan 6, 2013

More "high-wire acts" on D.C.'s horizon for guns, spending?

Republican and Democratic lawmakers discuss upcoming legislation on gun control and the debt ceiling

• Jan 6, 2013

Obama signs Sandy aid bill

Law temporarily increases borrowing authority of FEMA to pay $9.7 billion in flood insurance claims from Superstorm

• Jan 6, 2013

Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the tasks behind him

Talks about his 34-year Army career that featured successes in the war on terror, and a fall from grace

• Jan 6, 2013

"Fiscal cliff" averted: Time for the "mini-cliffs"

Bloomberg TV's Deirdre Bolton discusses the latest budget deadlines coming up in 2013

• Jan 5, 2013

Sources: Obama will nominate Hagel as defense secretary

CBS News has learned that the president will nominate the former GOP senator from Nebraska as the next secretary of defense

• Jan 4, 2013

Congress passes $9.7B Sandy relief bill

After uproar over delayed vote, House and Senate approve first of two measures providing aid for regions impacted by superstorm Sandy

• Jan 4, 2013

Obama faces fiscal hurdles, likely without Geithner

Obama will confront the fast-approaching fiscal battles in the wake up Treasury Secretary Geithner's expected January departure

• Jan 4, 2013

Partisanship and the 113th Congress

Most members in the new Congress didn't have a tough road to Washington on Election Day

• Jan 4, 2013

Five big issues for the new Congress

The 113th Congress is primed to make progress on big issues like immigration and taxes, if it can find the political will

• Jan 4, 2013

Will new senators push Democrats to the left?

Liberals hope that Elizabeth Warren and the other new progressive senators will move their party in a populist direction

• Jan 4, 2013

Vote on aid for Sandy victims on tap in new House

$9B measure is start on replacing $60B in bill scrapped by Speaker Boehner at end of prior Congress; Move drew wrath of both parties

• Jan 4, 2013

Lawmakers say CIA may have misled filmmakers

Lawmakers accused agency of misleading "Zero Dark Thirty" makers by allegedly telling them that harsh interrogation methods helped track down bin Laden

• Jan 3, 2013

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