Washington Bureau

President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan cleared a crucial hurdle in the Senate on Monday, as Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted to end debate and clear the way...

For weeks, President Barack Obama has tried to shape the nation's view of what would happen if Congress failed to pass his economic stimulus plan, arguing that crisis could turn...

With the Obama administration facing a make-or-break week to enact a massive economic stimulus package, officials ramped up pressure on lawmakers Sunday to waste no time sending the bill to...

The clucking could be heard clear across the capital when President Barack Obama first showed up in the Oval Office without a suit coat. "There should be a dress code...

President Barack Obama's plans to lead America out of recession rest in part on a task bigger than a moon shot and the Manhattan Project put together, as complicated as...

Mac is back. But now, Sen. John McCain is cutting a new profile -- one that is far more partisan than when he became so familiar to Americans only months...

Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, testified Thursday that he believes the harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding is torture and vowed to end...

Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, testified Thursday that he believes the harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding is torture and vowed to end...

The number of U.S. workers filing new jobless benefit claims jumped above 600,000 last week, to a more than quarter-century high, signaling that the recession is deepening. Separately, the increase...

Senate leaders called off plans to vote on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan Thursday night in hopes that a group of centrist lawmakers from both parties would be able...