Washington Bureau

When Barack Obama was campaigning for president, he promised to enact legislation to prohibit states from limiting the right to abortion. Now that Obama is in the White House and...

Accused in a 2002 grenade blast that wounded two U.S. soldiers near an Afghan market, Mohammed Jawad was sent as a youth to Guantanamo Bay, where under orders by President...

Just about everyone connected with the $789 billion economic stimulus bill agrees that it won't begin to fix the nation's broken economy overnight. But just how soon will Americans begin...

Bigger government checks could soon begin landing in mailboxes across the country and new tax breaks would be available to many families, if the economic stimulus package clears Congress this...

The owner of a Georgia peanut-processing plant blamed for a deadly salmonella outbreak had urged staff to "turn the product loose" even when warned of contamination, according to e-mails released...

Once the financial "Masters of the Universe," they sat all in a row in alphabetical order like errant schoolboys. But instead of a scolding from the principal, the chief executives...

Even before the deal was completed in Congress, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said evidence already had turned up that his economic rescue plan would improve the lives of American...

The Obama administration put the brakes Tuesday on a push to expand oil and gas drilling off America's coasts and promised to speed development of offshore wind farms. Interior Secretary...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Official: No trial for war prisoners If confirmed as U.S. solicitor general, Elena Kagan will defend government legal policy in the courts. Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Official: No trial for war prisoners If confirmed as U.S. solicitor general, Elena Kagan will defend government legal policy in the courts. Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President...