iStock/Thinkstock(RENO, Nev.) -- A missing family of six was found alive Tuesday after surviving two days in snow and brutal Nevada cold.

There was celebration and relief in the snowy Nevada mountains where search and rescue crews found alive the two adults and their four children under the age of 10.

The family told rescuers their car hit an embankment and flipped. Missing since Sunday in ver...

Lintao Zhang/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As Afghan President Hamid Karzai continues to withstand pressure to sign a bilateral security agreement to keep U.S. forces in his country past 2014, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan told a Senate panel Tuesday that there is still some prospect that a deal could still be signed by the end of the year.

The administration is committed t...

Architect of the Capitol(WASHINGTON) -- A bipartisan budget agreement reached Tuesday night by House and Senate negotiators would avoid a government shutdown in January and help break a fiscal stalemate that has caused gridlock in Washington.

But it would stop far short of tackling the underlying causes of the national debt.

The deal would raise military and domestic spending over the next two ye...

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The Senate confirmed Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., as the next director of Federal Housing Finance Agency Tuesday night.

The Senate voted 57-41 to confirm Watt, who president Obama nominated in May.

Watts confirmation was previously blocked by a Republican filibuster, but became the second nominee to be confirmed under a new rule which allows ...

Karwai Tang/WireImage (NEW YORK) -- Its a boy for Kate Winslet.

The Oscar winning-actress, 38, and her husband, Ned Rocknroll, welcomed a son on Dec. 7 in Sussex County, UK, her rep confirmed to ABC News.

Mother and baby are doing great, the rep said.

This is Winslets first child with her husband of a year. She has two other children, Mia, 13, and Joe, 9, from previous marriages. Both of them ...

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- We prepare so meticulously for our lives, but not so well for our deaths, according to data from a national survey published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Only about one of every four Americans have completed an advanced directive on how theyd like to be treated at the end of life, the survey found. The top reason many of the people surveyed h...