Washington Bureau

Violent extremism: We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan determined to...

Senate Democrats and the White House are stepping up preparations to overhaul the nation's health-care system without the ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., a move fraught with political and emotional...

With lawmakers poised to begin a major push to reshape the nation's health-care system, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signaled new openness to the idea of the government requiring most...

When President Barack Obama takes the podium in Cairo this week for his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world, he'll stand before the audience as an American leader born of...

A deadline for General Motors Corp. bondholders to accept a revised debt-for-stock offer that could speed the carmaker's ride through Chapter 11 bankruptcy passed Saturday without word whether there was...

The U.S. and its Asian allies are laying the groundwork for a tougher stance toward North Korea should negotiations with China and Russia fail to yield a new strategy to...

Calling the protection of government and private information and communications networks "one of the most serious ... security challenges of the 21st Century," President Barack Obama plans to appoint a...

It was a short, simple question, one of dozens on the disclosure form that Steven Chu filled out in January for the Senate committee weighing his nomination to be secretary...

For a lawyer or a judge, getting nominated to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court requires an element of luck. Sonia Sotomayor appears to have had an abundance of...

Republicans in the Senate and beyond Capitol Hill, acknowledging that it will be difficult to defeat the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, are looking for other strategies...