Washington Bureau

Rules reversed: President Barack Obama has blocked plans to loosen some air-quality standards and to remove the gray wolf from the endangered-species list. But he did not yet stop several...

The Obama administration is working on a comprehensive recovery strategy to address the escalating crisis in the financial system, the rising tide of home foreclosures and the need to jump-start...

President Barack Obama took the oath of office Tuesday outside the Capitol, as millions watched in person and on TV. He took it again Wednesday night -- this time in...

With a short memo on Inauguration Day, President Barack Obama blocked plans to loosen some air quality standards and to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list. But...

The two men standing Tuesday on either side of Abraham Lincoln's Bible are both known for their eloquence, but they managed to turn the swearing-in of the president of the...

The choreography was smooth, the smiles were gracious, but all the same, George W. Bush's exit from Washington was less than painless. To be sure, the now-former president fulfilled his...

Barack Hussein Obama took his place as the 44th president of the United States under a bright winter sky on Tuesday, painting this perilous national moment in unsparing terms and...

He called them "gathering clouds and raging storms," "icy currents" in a "winter of our hardship." But as Barack Obama spoke to the country for the first time as president,...

For once-powerful Republicans, there were two ways to get through Tuesday's inauguration -- and neither was entirely without pain. Some, like former White House aide Suhail Khan, opted to stay...

When the bars closed and the trains revved up and night slipped into early Tuesday, two groups of people stood giddy and shivering together, in a line to claim spots...