Washington Bureau

Leading health industry groups, including hospitals, drugmakers, insurers and doctors, have agreed in a letter to President Barack Obama on ways to slow the explosive growth of health-care spending, according...

As President Barack Obama prepared to release secret memos last month on the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods, the White House fielded a flurry of last-minute appeals. One was...

President Barack Obama has pledged to find a middle ground in his historic drive to reshape the nation's troubled health-care system. But even before Congress debates a health-care bill, he...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Official quits over NYC jet scare Flight was intended to get a picture of the presidential plane above the Statue of Liberty -- a shot to be used...

The Interior Department on Friday let stand a Bush administration policy barring the federal government from using the precarious state of the U.S. polar bear population as a reason to...

The pace of job losses slowed considerably during April, adding to hopes that the nation's steep economic downturn may be nearing a bottom. Employers cut 539,000 jobs last month, the...

President Barack Obama and the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan, setting aside months of friction, committed themselves again Wednesday to their faltering joint effort against Taliban and Al Qaeda extremists....

Justice Department investigators have concluded that three Bush administration lawyers who wrote controversial interrogation memos should not face criminal charges, but that the conduct of two of them deserved possible...

President Barack Obama and key House Democrats agreed Tuesday to include a "cash for clunkers" program in the major energy bill now being written in Congress, but they ended a...

In nominating Inez Moore Tenenbaum to head the troubled Consumer Product Safety Commission, President Barack Obama on Tuesday tapped someone little known to consumer advocates, who nonetheless cheered her appointment...