Barack Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials say President Barack Obama will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on President Barack Obama's nomination of Sen. John Kerry to be the next secretary of state.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming legislative committee is set to hear a bill that seeks to pre-empt any federal crackdown on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Wyoming's lone representative to the U.S. House of Representatives voted against measures to avoid, what has become known as, the "fiscal cliff."

President Barack Obama has created a special team, led by Vice President Joe Biden, to offer "concrete proposals" to curb gun violence.

President Obama addressed the nation following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Our hearts are broken today... for the parents and grandparents, sister and brothers of these little children, and for the families of the adults who were lost...

A petition has been started to ask the Federal Government to allow Wyoming to "withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government."