Washington Bureau

The Obama administration plans to push ahead with efforts to aggressively limit greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming despite fears that it could further slow the recessionary economy. Instead...

Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein, a widely admired public intellectual and friend of President Barack Obama's, has spent years delving into the obscure issues of regulatory law and behavioral...

Stepping quickly into an abortion debate he largely avoided as a candidate, President Barack Obama on Friday overturned a controversial ban on U.S. support to international aid groups that provide...

President Barack Obama's economic sit-down with congressional leaders Friday ended on an optimistic note, with senior Republicans sounding less confrontational than they had in recent days. But even as they...

The president wants a BlackBerry, the president gets a BlackBerry. It's no secret that the Secret Service was none too happy about President Barack Obama's fondness for his personal e-mail...

Moving to claim what he described as "the moral high ground," President Barack Obama took a series of steps Thursday to dismantle the most widely condemned components of the Bush...

On the same grounds where many gathered just two days earlier to witness President Barack Obama's inauguration, thousands of people joined the annual March for Life on the National Mall...

An Army criminal investigator told the family of a Green Beret who was electrocuted while taking a shower at his base in Baghdad that the soldier's death was a case...

An Army criminal investigator told the family of a Green Beret who was electrocuted while taking a shower at his base in Baghdad that the soldier's death was a case...

President Barack Obama, underscoring a commitment to more aggressive U.S. diplomacy, named two Democratic heavyweights on Thursday as administration envoys to two of the world's most troubled regions. Obama named...