Congress should act quickly to keep student loan interest rates from doubling, Sen. Jon Tester said. Tester said in a conference call with Montana reporters that freezing interest rates should be a bipartisan effort, and it should be done in a way that doesn’t add to the national debt.

Montana's chief federal judge admitted on Wednesday that he forwarded an email comparing African-Americans to dogs and implying that President Barack Obama's mother had sex with animals.

Congress has created a special super committee to devise a way to cut at least $1.2 trillion from US spending in coming years. Its real name is the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, and its deadline is Nov. 23. Here are the 12 lawmakers serving on the super committee.