Washington Bureau

Cordell Hull was a veteran lawmaker with a worldwide reputation when Franklin Roosevelt chose him for secretary of state in 1933, in part to win support from Hull's army of...

President-elect Barack Obama has settled on former rival Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state, following a high-stakes courtship that is expected to lead to a formal announcement after the...

With financial markets suffering a major relapse and the larger economy reeling, President-elect Barack Obama sought to deliver a message of reassurance Friday by selecting as his treasury secretary the...

An internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency found that agency officials engaged in a coverup to hide CIA negligence in the downing of a private airplane over Peru in...

Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey was rushed to a hospital Thursday night after collapsing and losing consciousness during a speech on the Justice Department's war on terrorism, a Justice Department official...

A federal judge ruled for the first time Thursday that the Bush administration had no basis for holding several of its long-term prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and he ordered...

In a last-minute effort to avoid a stalemate that could have cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, congressional leaders agreed Thursday to give Detroit automakers more time to make their...

Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey was rushed to a hospital Thursday night after collapsing and losing consciousness during a speech on the Justice Department's war on terrorism, a Justice Department official...

A new assessment by American intelligence agencies predicts that U.S. influence in the world will decline over the next two decades as surging powers such as China and India, as...

The roster shaping up for the Barack Obama administration is starting to look a little familiar, with an ironic pattern emerging as one name after another is added to the...