Washington Bureau

While members of Congress are accepting fewer privately financed trips in the wake of a scandal over lobbyist-paid travel several years ago, lawmakers from Illinois are actively traveling overseas on...

Now the health-care debate is getting really rough. Chuck Norris is in the room. The martial-arts expert, star of TV's "Walker, Texas Ranger" and clearly a conservative in the political...

As Congress struggles to decide how America should take care of its sick, another controversy is simmering: whether health care legislation should include billions of dollars aimed at keeping people...

The burning question in the hallways of the Pentagon: Will Adm. Mike Mullen have to take down his Facebook page? The Pentagon has launched a study of the use of...

When President Barack Obama said at a recent news conference that he has the best health care in the world, he wasn't exaggerating. The White House medical unit with a...

He sat with his legs crossed in an armchair in the Oval Office, his brow furrowed. Aides clustered on the couches around him. They could see black scratch marks all...

The Chicago doctor who treated President Barack Obama for more than two decades is entering the debate over health care reform, leveraging the connection to his former patient to act...

It is the Internet-fueled rumor that has been discredited but will not die: Barack Obama is not a naturally born U.S. citizen and therefore is constitutionally unable to be president....

Relax. America's greatest mystery has been solved. No, not what's going to happen to health-care reform. (Wake us when they have a deal). Here it is: We know the deal...

The U.S. House of Representatives has thrown its support behind Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. "The City of Big Shoulders is ready to welcome the Olympics with...