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With the NFL working to end its lockout and save preseason, the struggling United Football League announced Tuesday it would push back the start of its games from August to September.

The White House on Tuesday threw its backing behind a bill that would repeal a 15-year-old law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed regulations for the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program – an initiative that is supposed to create a new type of nonprofit, consumer-governed health insurer.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter earnings rose 13 percent, as enrollment gains helped fuel revenue growth and consumers continued to moderate their health care system use.

Providing health insurance to the average employee will cost a company $10,700 this year, an 8.2 percent increase from 2010.

A panel of health experts is calling on the government to require that insurance companies cover birth control for free as preventive care for women under President Barack Obama's health overhaul.

As Congress and the president continue to battle on debt ceiling, the majority of young Hispanics say they prefer spending cuts over raising new taxes to get the economy on track, a new poll suggests.

Leaders of a bipartisan "Gang of Six" senators said Tuesday that they've reached agreement on a major plan to cut the deficit by more than $4 trillion over the coming decade through tax reform, Medicare and Social Security overhaul, and repeal of the CLASS Act, among other measures.