Washington Bureau

In movies, Secret Service agents leap in front of bullets aimed at the commander in chief. But in Baghdad, agents failed to block not one, but two shoes hurled at...

The Supreme Court cast a new cloud over the future of the tobacco industry on Monday, ruling the cigarette-makers can be sued for deceiving smokers about the dangers of their...

With the nomination of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu for energy secretary, President-elect Barack Obama made sure no one missed the message in the resume. "His appointment should send a...

President George W. Bush customarily takes two questions per side, two from each nation's journalists, when he holds a joint news conference with a foreign leader. But this is the...

Defense Department officials hope the successful test this month of the Pentagon's missile defense system will build support for the initiative within the incoming Obama administration. The test, in which...

A Harvard-educated architect is Barack Obama's choice to head his housing agency, one which the president-elect says will play a key role in tackling the mortgage crisis in his administration....

As Washington gears up for a big night of inaugural balls, a delicate dance is taking place. Planners want to stage a splashy celebration worthy of the historic moment but...

With two of Detroit's Big Three automakers in desperate need of cash after the failure of a $14 billion bailout bill, the White House was preparing to step in with...

President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general, Eric Holder Jr., is now coming under fire from Senate Republicans, who have asked to delay what was expected to be a swift...

Faced with solidifying Republican opposition, President George W. Bush and Senate Democratic leaders scrambled Thursday night to find a last-minute compromise that could save the $14 billion auto industry bailout...