Washington Bureau

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he will shift spending of the government's multibillion-dollar financial bailout away from large financial institutions and toward smaller banks, in an effort to bolster...

The White House is minding its own bee's wax. In the lush gardens of the South Lawn, which has hosted a hive of activity since the new first family moved...

The U.S. Supreme Court turned down an appeal Monday from a former Illinois prosecutor who lost a libel suit against the baiduhai and who urged the justices to make...

World leaders pledged Friday to keep economic stimulus efforts going in order to nurture the tentative recovery. They also lent their support to a U.S. plan to restructure global growth...

After months of pressing the American public and Congress to support sweeping changes to health care and health insurance, President Barack Obama on Sunday offered a humbling admission: His message...

Officially, rapper Kanye West is not a "jackass" -- at least not as far as the White House is concerned. President Barack Obama apparently was speaking off the record Monday...

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday will welcome Mayor Richard Daley and other high-profile backers of Chicago's bid for the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. They...

If global warming continues unchecked, Chicago would see a repeat of the killer 1995 heat wave every summer by the middle of the century, an environmental group says in a...

The nation's jobless rate unexpectedly jumped in August to a 26-year high of 9.7 percent, up from 9.4 percent in July, as employers shed 216,000 jobs over the month, the...

So just where did that catchy "cash for clunkers" name come from anyway? Despite the recent "clunker" craze, the term and its concept aren't new -- dating back at least...