WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Just hours after taking office, the new House of Representatives reinstated a team of ethics investigators that had faced what seemed like a certain death due to lawmakers' inaction.

(CNN) -- The former Arizona congresswoman who survived a mass shooting in her district roughly two years ago paid a visit Friday to Newtown, Connecticut, where last month a gunman killed 27 people and himself in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. 

(CNN) -- California's top prosecutor will seek a change in an 1872 state law after an appeals court cited "historical anomalies in the law" when overturning a rape conviction of a man who allegedly pretended to be an 18-year-old woman's boyfriend in a dark bedroom.

The U.S. House On Friday Approved A $9.7 Billion Superstorm Sandy Aid Package Following Delays Over Fiscal Cliff Bickering, Federal Warnings Of Dwindling Funds And Swirling Controversy Over Millions Of Dollars For Unrelated Projects.

Sandy Hook Elementary School students returned to class Thursday. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy set a two-month deadline for a commission to address the state's gun laws, mental health policies and public security issues.

A bipartisan group of senators has written two letters to CIA Acting Director Michael Morell asking for all information the agency gave the "Zero Dark Thirty" filmmakers.

In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a significant moment in the civil rights movement, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to all members of the Wilmington Ten.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The newspaper that published an online, interactive map of handgun permit-holders in two suburban New York counties hired armed guards to protect its office after negative backlash from the map publication, according to a local police report.

(CNN) -- After a firestorm of criticism from Northeast Republicans, the House of Representatives is expected to take up an aid package on Friday meant to address those still reeling in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

(CNN) -- For the first time since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Christine Wilford plans do something remarkable on Thursday that once was routine: drop her child off at school.