Power outages could last for days  —  Daybreak Sunday found 789,358 in the Washington region still without power, facing another sweltering day and the prospect of returning to work Monday before electricity is restored to their homes.  —  Many roads made impassable by fallen trees …

Bain Attacks Make Inroads for President  —  Propelled by a torrent of blistering television advertisements, President Obama is successfully invoking Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital to raise questions about Mr. Romney's commitment to the middle class, strategists in both parties say …

Chief Justice Roberts and His Apologists  —  Some conservatives see a silver lining in the ObamaCare ruling.  But it's exactly the big-government disaster it appears to be.  —  White House judge-pickers sometimes ask prospective nominees about their favorite Supreme Court justice.

Obama's In-Flight Cash Plea  —  In an anxious conference call from Air Force One, Obama asked campaign donors to send more money.  Lloyd Grove obtained the tape and describes the presidential pitch.  —  President Obama sounded weary and maybe a tad worried late Friday during …

Gov. Scott Says Fla. Won't Comply with Health Care Law  —  The governor announced Friday night the state would not expand the Medicaid program to lower number of uninsured residents  —  South Florida health care experts and politicians were quick to react Thursday to the to Supreme Court's decision …

GOP lawmakers: Romney needs to distance himself from Bush  —  Republican lawmakers say Mitt Romney should distance himself from former President George W. Bush.  —  Such a move, they say, would take away a key political advantage from President Obama, who has repeatedly suggested Romney …

E-Mails Indicate Paterno Role in '01 Silence About Sandusky  —  Joe Paterno appears to have played a greater role than previously known in Penn State's handling of a 2001 report that Jerry Sandusky had sexually assaulted a boy in a university shower, according to a person with knowledge …

What Really Makes Us Fat  —  A CALORIE is a calorie.  This truism has been the foundation of nutritional wisdom and our beliefs about obesity since the 1960s.  —  What it means is that a calorie of protein will generate the same energy when metabolized in a living organism as a calorie of fat or carbohydrate.

Mitt Romney's summer vacation full of competitive sports and family meetings  —  WOLFEBORO, N.H. — This weekend, Mitt Romney is starting his annual summer vacation on his lakefront compound here — a week of fun and family, though not entirely carefree.  —  The Romneys, 30 in all these days …

NBC Meteorologist On Record Heat Wave: 'If We Did Not Have Global Warming, We Wouldn't See This'  —  Tweet of the heat wave, from the National Weather Service:  —  It is friggin' hot!  —  How hot is it?  It's so hot that all-time records are being set in June: “Nashville has reached …

Mitt Romney Wants Americans To ‘Get All The Education They Can Afford’  —  What a shining example this is of Mitt Romney's policy ideas.  In his stump speech yesterday, he mocked President Obama's vision of fairness and opportunity for all by saying he agreed with it.

Hood shooting suspect again barred from court  —  FORT HOOD, Texas — A military judge ruled Friday against delaying the trial of the Fort Hood shooting suspect, an Army psychiatrist who remains banned from the courtroom because his beard violates Army regulations.