South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has found himself near the top of another poll this week, ranking third behind Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden in the University of New Hampshire "Granite State Poll." David Weigel, a national reporter covering politics for The Washington Post, and former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, who now leads the LGBTQ Victory Fund, join CBSN's "Red & Blue" with a look at the historical significance of Buttigieg's candidacy.

More than half a million people think Washington state Sen. Maureen Walsh needs a better understanding of what nurses do on a daily basis.

"I would like to take a stand and petition to have the senator experience what really happens during an RN’s 12-hour shift," a Chicago nurse said.

Senior executives at T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp made the case to U.S. officials in Washington last week that they should approve a planned tie-up between the two wireless companies, arguing a combined firm would have incentives to "aggressively lower prices."

More than half a million people think Washington state Sen. Maureen Walsh needs a better understanding of what nurses do on a daily basis.

___ Medicare, Social Security face shaky fiscal futures WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report by the government's overseers of Medicare and Social Security urges lawmakers to "take action sooner rather than later" to address shortfalls in the financial condition of the government's bedrock retirement programs for middle- and working-class Americans.

Washington appears set to become the first state to allow a burial alternative known as "natural organic reduction" — an accelerated decomposition process that turns bodies into soil within weeks.

A fifth-grade student at an exclusive private school in Washington, D.C., and a Denver man on a business trip were among the U.S. residents killed in the Sri Lanka Easter attacks, a media report and the man's employer said on Monday.

A fifth-grade student at an exclusive private school in Washington, D.C., and a Denver man on a business trip were among the U.S. residents killed in the Sri Lanka Easter attacks, a media report and the man's employer said on Monday.