Washington Bureau

In just the past week, he clumsily pronounced a Supreme Court justice to be near death and threatened to sue a fellow senator and the Republican Party. He's raised almost...

Listeners to Kojo Nnamdi's radio program here have been calling for weeks, hopeful that the District of Columbia, after decades of pleading, is finally on the verge of receiving a...

The Pentagon has decided to rescind a long-standing prohibition against media coverage of returning war dead, allowing families to say whether news organizations may photograph the arrivals, Defense Secretary Robert...

President Barack Obama's budget signals that he is ready to reopen an often-ferocious political battle over farm subsidies, proposing to cut aid to large farms that receive big government subsidy...

Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration Friday will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows health-care workers to deny abortion counseling or other family-planning services...

President Barack Obama's $3.55trillion budget proposal includes tax cuts for some and a wide range of increases for others. More details are expected in April, but here's how it may...

The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs under former President George W. Bush, setting the stage for a sweeping examination...

The Justice Department is preparing to bring criminal charges against the only person detained in this country by the military as an enemy combatant, possibly defusing a Supreme Court dispute...

Potentially one of the most far-reaching elements in the budget blueprint is the call to combat global warming by adopting a so-called "cap and trade" system for reducing carbon emissions...

The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Wednesday to the government's bid to use a strong new identity theft law against illegal immigrants who use fake ID cards. Last year,...