Washington Bureau

The Federal Reserve, in a move that could point the way toward breaking the logjam at the center of the credit crisis, has adopted a new strategy to permit some...

Democrats talked about the new jobs to come from modernizing the electric grid, weatherizing homes and repairing roads and bridges. Republicans, too, had ideas for reviving the economy, focusing on...

As President Barack Obama prepared to meet Wednesday with top military officials to review the troubled U.S. effort in Afghanistan, his defense secretary told lawmakers Tuesday the U.S. should set...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday he is reconsidering a series of controversial energy and environmental decisions handed down in the waning days of the Bush administration, including a...

Sending a signal to Muslims around the world, the White House this week passed over the politically influential American networks in favor of an Arab satellite channel, Al-Arabiya, to air...

President George W. Bush, on his last full day in office, formally struck down the petitions for clemency of junk-bond financier Michael Milken and some high-profile former politicians including Randall...

VP's home found: Dick Cheney may not have lived in an undisclosed location while he was vice president, but it was all but impossible to see it on Google. Once...

Workers who cooperate with an internal investigation and report uncouth behavior by a supervisor are protected from retaliation under the civil rights laws, the Supreme Court said Monday, strengthening the...

The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lawsuit from a Los Angeles man wrongfully convicted of murder and gave district attorneys a broad shield against being sued even if...

Vice President Joe Biden, in a somber assessment of the road ahead, predicted Sunday that American casualties would climb in Afghanistan as the Obama administration shifts military priorities in the...