House Democrats are scrambling to secure enough support to pass President Barack Obama’s historic health overhaul initiative, working to soothe last-minute...

WASHINGTON—Ignoring a Republican boycott, Senate Democrats pushed a precedent-setting climate bill through a key committee today. Rep. Barbara Boxer,...

The White House distanced itself Wednesday from Democratic losses in two states, saying the races hinged on local issues and were not a referendum on President...

Fiorina says her priorities would be creating jobs, cutting government spending and expanding access to health care — but not through a national...

An ebullient Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele asserted Wednesday that GOP victories in governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia demonstrate...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—A North Carolina congressman dashing to catch a plane dumped his sport utility vehicle at the end of a row of properly parked cars...

PORTLAND, Maine—Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP)—Chris Christie, an aggressive former prosecutor who racked up a perfect conviction rate in public corruption cases and became...

TOKYO—Former President George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of the Japan Series between the Yomiuri Giants and Nippon...

President Barack Obama is welcoming German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House. The two leaders will hold a morning meeting in the Oval Office....

New Jersey’s candidates for governor are darting through the state on the last day of a campaign being billed as a vote on President Barack Obama’s...

President Barack Obama says the public and private sectors must find more ways to create jobs to continue the U.S. climb out of an economic recession.

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney says the time has come to stop the economic stimulus program, contending that it has not worked as the Obama administration...

WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that “there is a cloud over the vice president.“...

Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.   Meet the Press (NBC, 9) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Obama campaign manager David Plouffe; author Jon...

What’s all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats’ push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage...

Celebrities George Clooney and Oprah Winfrey and prominent lobbyists, corporate executives and Democratic fundraisers were among the first to score visits...

President Barack Obama said Saturday that reports the economy is growing again and that more than 1 million jobs were saved or created by his stimulus...

In a conversation with Times-Dispatch Staff Writer David Ress, Obama domestic policy advisor says federal role isn’t “master puppeteer.“...

North Carolina elections officials have penalized former Gov. Mike Easley’s campaign $100,000 for unreported airplane flights and asked prosecutors...

Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the...

President Barack Obama is set to sign an extension of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS bill.

President Barack Obama is hailing new figures showing the economy grew at a 3.5 percent rate in the third quarter, saying the country has “come a...

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah; Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.; R. Bruce Josten of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Mike...

Six Indian tribes in Virginia and the Lumbees of North Carolina would gain federal recognition and become eligible for federal aid under legislation approved...

WASHINGTON—House Democrats are aiming to scale back the cost of their health-care bill by giving the government a strong hand in selling insurance...

Two Republican county officials in South Carolina are apologizing after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative...

In another indication that the New Jersey governor’s race will go down to the wire, a new poll finds Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican Chris Christie...

NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen for...

Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., Arlen Specter, D-Pa., and John Thune, R-S.D.; Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman.   Meet the...