Washington Bureau

For some defense lawyers, the arrest of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was less about racial profiling than about how people can be arrested simply for speaking angry...

President Barack Obama unexpectedly injected himself Wednesday into a burning national controversy: the treatment of minorities by police across the nation. Responding to a question during his evening news conference,...

It may not be a pillbox hat, but it is a bob. And if the fashion trendsetting Jackie Kennedy could get a bob and hat thing going (with a little...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday that the United States may erect a "defense umbrella" over the Middle East if Iran continues its nuclear program, in a sign that...

When Michelle Obama decided to leave her job at a corporate law firm, her first stop at City Hall was the office of Susan Sher, then the City of Chicago's...

Airplane control problems could have led to disaster for then-Sen. Barack Obama and his presidential campaign last summer, according to a report released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board....

The controversy that has followed Michael Jackson, in life and in death, reached the halls of Congress on Thursday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she saw no point to...

The continuing decline in consumers' use of charge cards and other forms of credit reflects an underlying weakness in the U.S. economy, experts say. And it suggests a fundamental shift...

When Congress decides how to pay for President Barack Obama's signature health-care initiative, some of his strongest political bastions may be footing a heavy bill. And in a political irony,...

Just as the nation's housing market has begun showing signs of stabilizing, another wave of foreclosures is poised to strike, possibly as early as this summer, inflicting new punishment on...