The Obama administration will pitch legislation that would allow the government to block excessive rate hikes by health insurance groups, an official said Sunday.
Eighty-six percent of Americans polled by CNN/Opinion Research Corp. believe the government is broken, but nearly as many hold out hope things can be fixed.
The pilots' union of Lufthansa began a strike Monday after a last-ditch effort at negotiations over pay and job security failed, an airline spokeswoman told CNN.
A BNSF freight train that derailed late Saturday night near Bakersfield, California, continued to burn Sunday as firefighters worked to put out flames caused by plastic pellets, a spokeswoman with the train company said.
The head of U.S. Central Command warned today that the potential loss of lives among U.S. forces in the latest offensive in Afghanistan "will be tough."