Senate Democrats pushed ahead with President Barack Obama's vision of health reform Saturday night -- after a day that exposed significant divides in the party that could make it all but impossible to complete work on a plan by year's end, or even sink the bill altogether. (Today)

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) was a day away from casting a vote that could change her political career when she got a phone call from someone who knew what she was going through. (Today)

A college student home for the weekend might expect a warm bed and a hot meal. That had to wait for Addie Witt, who drove east Friday night from Ohio's Otterbein College to join her father, Kerry Witt, on a chilly parking lot sleepover next to the cinder block wall of a Sam's Club in Washington County. (Yesterday)

WASHINGTON -- Democrats have hit the magic number of 60 to move ahead on historic health care legislation. (11/21/2009)

After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become so rife with internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money that some supporters fear it will disintegrate before realizing its full potential. (11/20/2009)