Washington Bureau

Spurred by President Barack Obama and an array of businesses, medical providers and consumers clamoring for change, congressional Democrats have begun to lay out specific plans for overhauling the nation's...

By sentencing two American journalists to hard labor, North Korea further knotted the Obama administration's tangled efforts to curtail the country's nuclear weapons ambitions and defuse rising regional tension. Amid...

Nationwide limits on greenhouse-gas emissions will sock the Midwest in the wallet, but they're the key to the struggling region's hope for economic rebirth, a Chicago Council on Global Affairs...

The Pentagon is preparing to graduate its first drone pilots from the elite U.S. Air Force Weapons School, a version of the Navy's Top Gun program, in a bid to...

As Chicago awaits judgment of international Olympics evaluators, the city's bid committee has been hard at work in Washington lining up White House backing and employing a well-connected lobbying firm...

Standing on the shores of the Omaha Beach landing, President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday to the thousands of servicemen who gave their lives in the D-Day invasion 65 years...

The Pentagon is preparing to graduate its first drone pilots from the elite U.S. Air Force Weapons School, a version of the Navy's Top Gun program, in a bid to...

As Chicago awaits judgment of international Olympics evaluators, the city's bid committee has been hard at work in Washington lining up White House backing and employing a well-connected lobbying firm...

Amid a fresh round of controversy over the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the U.S. Senate, an unapologetic Roland Burris declared in a Tribune interview that he has "no regrets"...

President Barack Obama will pay homage to the roots of the post-World War II world and to the early days of his own family as he visits France on Saturday...