Washington Bureau

With the stock market dropping again, President Barack Obama urged Americans on Tuesday to look past "day-to-day gyrations," set their sights on a rosier, long-term horizon and consider getting into...

Legal experts said Tuesday they were taken aback by the claim in the latest batch of secret Bush-era memos that the president alone had the power to set the rules...

Ailing insurer American International Group Inc. received access to an additional $30 billion Monday in its fourth round of government loans, sparking a wide-ranging Wall Street sell-off of stocks as...

The Obama White House has begun advancing an aggressive political strategy: convincing the country that the real power behind the Republican Party is not the GOP leaders in Congress or...

John McCain has started Twittering. No, that's not a neurological disorder. He's fine. For a candidate famously mocked last year for not being able to use a computer, the man...

Since the advent of DNA testing, at least 232 prisoners have been freed after lab results showed they did not commit the crime that put them behind bars. But in...

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama said that in overhauling health care he would make negotiations public -- and even invite C-SPAN to air the talks on television. Yet in...

Since the advent of DNA testing, at least 232 prisoners have been freed after lab results showed they did not commit the crime that put them behind bars. But in...

The nation's top military officer said Sunday that Iran has enough nuclear material to make a bomb, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the country was not close to building...

From front to back and on nearly every page, President Barack Obama's new budget plan delivers a message that's seldom been heard in American politics for more than three decades:...