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...

WASHINGTON—You think Democrats and Republicans are at odds over health care? They’ve got nothing on House and Senate Democrats going after...

Vice President Joe Biden’s son, who has returned after serving a tour with the Army National Guard in Iraq, says he’ll take his time to decide...

A second Republican senator signaled Wednesday she’s open to voting for sweeping health care legislation this year, putting President Barack Obama...

The only Republican who supported advancing the Senate Finance Committee’s version of health care reform says she believes that’s what constituents...

WASHINGTON—Historic legislation to expand U.S. health care and control costs won its first Republican supporter yesterday and cleared a key Senate...

A pivotal Senate committee has approved a sweeping remake of the country’s health care system, delivering a long-sought boost to President Barack...

Wynn Resorts Ltd. CEO Steve Wynn; Govs. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., and Mitch Daniels, R-Ind.   Meet the Press (NBC, 9) Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich.,...

South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher....

The Senate’s top Democrat on Thursday accused Republicans of a strategy of “distortion, distractions and deception” on health care as...