Vice President Joe Biden is apologizing to Americans that the website for new health care exchanges wasn't ready to go when it launched on Oct. 1.

A conservative group filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have the federal health care law declared unconstitutional.

For the first time in five years, the U.S. government has run a budget deficit below $1 trillion.

President Barack Obama is citing the Massachusetts health care system's slow start to keep expectations low for early sign-ups for his own overhaul. And he's pointing to the bipartisan effort to get the program launched in Massachusetts to encourage his opponents to stop rooting for his law's failure.