Washington Bureau

Three years ago, Hurricane Katrina and its chaotic aftermath produced a collage of indelible images. Among those was a photo of President George W. Bush, viewing the devastation below from...

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), incoming chief of staff to President-elect Barack Obama, will formally resign his House seat Friday. The timing of the announcement has been a subject of speculation...

President-elect Barack Obama's top advisers said Sunday they won't back away from a promise to cut taxes for the middle class and raise them for the wealthiest Americans, as they...

Barack Obama may change Washington when he takes over the White House next month, but when it comes to paying for his inauguration, the president-elect is mostly doing it the...

Barack Obama may change Washington when he takes over the White House next month, but when it comes to paying for his inauguration, the president-elect is mostly doing it the...

As President George W. Bush's term comes to a close, the United States has the world's dominant economy and its most powerful military. Yet its global influence is in decline....

After years of food-poisoning episodes, tainted imports and unrealized promises of reform, the incoming Obama administration has been saying the embattled Food and Drug Administration would finally get what it...

In a seemingly unprecedented move, President George W. Bush on Wednesday revoked a pardon he had issued just 24 hours earlier for a politically connected real estate developer who defrauded...

Amid a daily drumbeat of grim economic reports, President-elect Barack Obama's top economic advisers met Tuesday to refine plans for a massive new stimulus proposal, promising the money would not...

The Pentagon and national security officials are transmitting a battery of new information concerning the Afghanistan war to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team in hopes the new administration will act...