Washington Bureau

Far from pulling back on his pledge to overhaul the nation's health-care system, President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday reasserted that commitment, saying the economic downturn makes major changes more imperative...

A bipartisan Senate report released Thursday concludes that decisions made by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were a "direct cause" of widespread detainee abuses and that other top Bush administration...

The Bush administration issued two late-term regulations on Thursday that environmentalists say weaken federal protection for endangered species but that Interior Department officials defended as blocking a "back-door" attempt to...

President-elect Barack Obama will tap Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his energy secretary and former New Jersey environmental protection commissioner Lisa Jackson as head of the Environmental Protection Agency,...

The charges against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich mark the latest in a series of scandals erupting around Democratic politicians -- an ironic turn for a party that won control of...

The House approved a $14 billion bailout for U.S. automakers Wednesday after White House and Democratic leaders finalized a deal empowering a government "car czar" to force the companies into...

Hoping to prevent another blow to the economy, Democratic congressional leaders on Monday unveiled a plan for propping up the U.S. auto industry that closely tracks President George W. Bush's...

Undaunted by election results on Nov. 4, several persistent plaintiffs have pursued lawsuits asserting that Barack Obama is ineligible to hold the office of president because he is not a...

President-elect Barack Obama's offer to make Rep. Xavier Becerra the next U.S. trade representative would be the second Cabinet-level pick involved in President Bill Clinton's controversial 2001 commutation of a...

President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday pledged to launch the biggest public works program since the construction of the interstate highway system in the 1950s as part of his plan to...