A former CIA officer who pleaded guilty to identifying a secret agent was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison, but he says he came out of court "positive and optimistic."

The Michigan Department of Corrections charged Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick with 14 parole violations late Thursday and he'll spend the weekend in jail.

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- President Obama will nominate Mary Jo White, a former federal prosecutor in New York, to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, the watchdog agency that monitors Wall Street and corporate financial disclosures.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate have agreed on language reforming filibusters, and will present the proposal to their respective caucuses Thursday afternoon, aides in both parties told CNN.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military is ending its policy of excluding women from combat and will open combat jobs and direct combat units to female troops, multiple officials told CNN on Wednesday.

Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o has admitted lying again, marking at least the second time he has acknowledged knowingly spreading falsities in the saga of his fake, dead girlfriend

Officials from the Harris County Sheriff's Office are still in the initial stages of their investigation into a shooting that wounded three people. An argument between two men triggered the gunfire

The Department of Defense Inspector General has cleared Gen. John Allen, who currently is completing his post leading U.S. troops in Afghanistan and is in the running to be the next Supreme Allied Commander Europe and the military head of NATO.

Family members say Nehemiah Griego, who shot his family before surrendering, is no monster. They can't fathom what could have gone so terribly wrong.

(CNN) -- Tuesday is the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, but a poll shows that many Americans don't know the significance of the case.