Washington Bureau

The U.S. can help end poverty for more than 270 million people in the world's poorest regions before 2020 by investing in agricultural development programs that encourage local growth and...

After months of relentlessly dismal financial news, the nation's chief economic policymakers delivered a message Tuesday: All is not lost. And the stock market seized on the glimmer of good...

President Barack Obama on Tuesday night declared the dawn of a new era guided by American ingenuity and defined not by the magnitude of the current economic crisis but by...

The Obama administration is considering a 19-month withdrawal plan for the bulk of U.S. troops in Iraq and could announce a timetable this week, military officials said Tuesday. The plan...

Following President Barack Obama's call Tuesday evening for a return to fiscal responsibility, Republicans responded by demanding the country return to a policy of fiscal responsibility. But if that sounded...

After months of relentlessly dismal financial news, the nation's chief economic policymakers delivered a message Tuesday: All is not lost. And the stock market seized on the glimmer of good...

Following President Barack Obama's call Tuesday evening for a return to fiscal responsibility, Republicans responded by demanding the country return to a policy of fiscal responsibility. But if that sounded...

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's Washington lodging arrangements, a rent-free basement room in a Capitol Hill home owned by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and her pollster husband, have...

Michelle Obama's first days as first lady make her look a lot like "First Mom." She flops down on the floor to read books to children in public and schedules...

In an age when Americans compare hotel rooms, cars, even prospective mates on the Internet with the click of a mouse, trying to identify the best, most effective medical care...