Washington Bureau

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was interviewed Wednesday by the Senate Ethics Committee in its investigation of Sen. Roland Burris, appointed by now-ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill the Senate...

The Federal Reserve escalated its war on the credit crisis Wednesday, announcing that it would spend more than $1 trillion in an aggressive effort to force down interest rates on...

The number of soldiers forced to remain in the military past their enlistment period under the government's "stop-loss" program will be cut in half within 15 months under a new...

Sprinting to get ahead of the public backlash against bonuses paid to American Insurance Group Inc. employees, members of Congress vowed Tuesday to pass legislation taxing nearly all of the...

Taking up a cause once championed by Illinois Sen. Paul Simon, Sen. Dick Durbin introduced legislation Tuesday calling for the United States to set a goal of expanding access to...

Taking up a cause once championed by Illinois Sen. Paul Simon, Sen. Dick Durbin introduced legislation Tuesday calling for the United States to set a goal of expanding access to...

Efforts by Mexico and the United States to stem the skyrocketing cross-border drug and weapons trade are failing, and both countries are to blame for the rise of violent cartels...

Even before President Barack Obama announced his first judicial nominee Tuesday, there was talk of filibusters in the Senate to block candidates for the courts. All that has changed on...

President Barack Obama chose an Indiana judge with some bipartisan support for his first judicial nomination Tuesday, announcing he wants to elevate federal Judge David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit...

Working to jump-start the economy's engine of job creation, President Barack Obama announced Monday that the Treasury Department would spend up to $15 billion to boost lending to credit-hungry small...