Dozens of protesters camped overnight in the Wisconsin Capitol and vowed to be back in full force Monday after police backed away from threats to close the building, where demonstrators have held steady for two weeks to oppose Republican-backed legislation aimed at weakening unions.
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An FBI file contends that a young Edward M. Kennedy arranged to rent a brothel for a night while visiting Chile in 1961, a year before he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
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The U.S. and other nations are working to hasten the removal of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, considering options meant to break his grip on power.
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The Supreme Court Justice defended his wife’s controversial involvement in conservative politics at a Federalist Society symposium for University of Virginia law students – saying his critics seem “bent on undermining” the Supreme Court. Politico’s Ken Vodel discusses. (Mitchell Reports)
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President Barack Obama tried to seize the political middle in the continuing fight over health care reform Monday, telling a group of governors that he's willing to provide states more flexibility in their implementation of the overhaul signed into law last year.
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Union workers and activists celebrated in the Wisconsin Capitol early Monday, as police relented and let them spend another night on the marble floors of the building's rotunda.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that government workers’ collective bargaining rights have caused unsustainable costs and he stuck to his demand that it be curtailed.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker took to the airwaves Sunday, defending his call to limit collective bargaining rights in his state because "actions speak louder than words."
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich intends to take a formal step toward entering the 2012 presidential race within the next two weeks, Republican officials said Sunday, after he spent months traveling to important primary and caucus states.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that government workers’ collective bargaining rights have caused unsustainable costs and he stuck to his demand that it be curtailed.
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Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman say the Obama administration needs to do more to help protesters oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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A crowd estimated at more than 70,000 people on Saturday waved American flags, sang the national anthem and called for the defeat of a Wisconsin plan to curb public sector unions.
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What does online shopping have to do with budget gaps? To some lawmakers, the sales tax not being collected by many online merchants is revenue that could stem the bleeding of state treasuries.
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One week before a potential government shutdown, Senate Dems reacted positively to an offer from House GOPers to keep the government running for two more weeks while cutting $4 billion.
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A court filing in the case of a former CIA officer accused of spilling secrets about Iran’s nuclear program provides new details about the extraordinary measures Justice Department prosecutors are using to identify government leakers.
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When some of the nation's largest banks were bailed out by the government in 2008 at the beginning of the global financial crisis, "too big to fail" was a phrase commonly heard as Washington argued why it had to help.
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The battle over union rights has shifted the budget debate from Capitol Hill to states, rivaling the threat of a government shutdown in D.C. next week.
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The starting point, politicos of all stripes have assumed, would be the moment front-runner Mitt Romney found himself on the defensive on RomneyCare. Well guess what — it has begun.
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Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi's embattled regime can't survive, and the United States should call on him to resign, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.
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The Wisconsin state Assembly passed a bill Friday that strips most public workers of their collective bargaining rights, but the bill will face opposition in the state Senate.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday confirmed that he had been duped by a prank call from a liberal online newspaper editor posing as a billionaire conservative activist.
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Indiana House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer said Thursday he's not sure whether boycotting Democrats will return to the Statehouse on Monday because so far "nothing's changed."
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Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is ordering an investigation into a scathing Rolling Stone magazine report that says the Army ordered soldiers trained in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting lawmakers to secure more troops and funding for the war, the military said Thursday.
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Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to try to find at least one of the 14 Senate Democrats who have been on the run for eight days to delay a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all public employees.
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Wisconsin state workers are calling for the "largest day of demonstration outside of Madison in state history" to protest threats to their collective bargaining rights.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday confirmed that he had been duped by a prank call from a liberal online newspaper editor posing as a billionaire conservative activist.
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President Barack Obama has ordered the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as only between a man and woman, according to a statement Wednesday from Attorney General Eric Holder.
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For many in labor unions, the political battles in Wisconsin, Ohio and now Indiana are seen as nothing short of a frontal assault on their very existence.
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They are the minority in what they call "the Left Coast," but conservative singer and activist Pat Boone says "there is large and growing phalanx of conservatives in 'La La Land.' "
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A left-leaning website that union supporters used to rally protesters in Wisconsin was partially blocked as demonstrators gathered in the state Capitol over a controversial budget bill.
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Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wins election as Chicago mayor, replacing Richard M. Daley, who served six terms.
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Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff to President Obama, won the Chicago mayoral election on Tuesday, topping the 50% threshold to avoid a runoff vote.
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A Supreme Court majority appeared poised Tuesday to give a woman convicted of trying to poison her best friend a chance to argue that her case should have been handled in state courts.
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It has been five years since Justice Clarence Thomas last spoke at oral argument, a reflection of his complex and often misunderstood personality.
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Tuesday's election in Chicago could select the city's first Jewish mayor, or the first black female or Hispanic to hold that office.
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White House official Elizabeth Warren, best known for her outspoken criticism of the banking industry, praised that same group during a Tuesday conference on the one-year anniversary of the credit card laws.
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Rahm Emanuel enters election day in Chicago as the clear front-runner in the city's mayoral race. The only question is whether he can get enough votes to avoid an April runoff.
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Oil prices surged more than 6% Monday as antigovernment protests in the Middle East and Africa intensified, raising worries about possible supply disruptions.
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U.S. authorities were keeping a close watch on Libya's rapidly unfolding political crisis Monday in part to see what possibilities might exist for meaningful reform, a senior Obama administration official said.
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Wisconsin's growing demonstrations over state workers continue Monday with activist rocker Tom Morello to play for protesters a day after Gov. Scott Walker signaled no retreat.
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Leading Republicans and Democrats are signaling a desire for compromise on a short-term spending resolution to keep the government running while more substantive talks take place.
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So there is Abraham Lincoln -- Henry Fonda, actually, in a stovepipe hat -- walking toward the horizon as the gorgeous strains of an orchestra swell up behind him. Soon the orchestra is joined by a choir, the strings and the voices blending into a beautiful, almost ethereal, rendition of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Thunder crackles in the cinematic sky.
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that if the Bush Administration had known there were no WMDs in Iraq, it probably wouldn't have invaded.
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The House of Representatives passed a government spending bill after a marathon session Saturday morning that slashes more than $60 billion in federal funding for the seven months remaining in the 2011 fiscal year.
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First lady Michelle Obama found herself at the center of an unlikely debate this week when three prominent conservative women criticized her for encouraging a "nanny state."
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Wisconsin senators are expected to reconvene Friday to wrangle over stripping teachers and public employees of collective bargaining rights and cutting benefits.
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The crackdown on protesters in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain is a rash move that will enrage many of its people and cost the regime international prestige, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.
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Republican officials across the nation have made teachers' unions "public enemy No. 1" in a battle to trim budgets and rewrite the rules on how unions and states work together.
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday that congressional opposition makes the likelihood of closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "very, very low."
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to extend three provisions of the Patriot Act and Intelligence Reform bill that are due to expire next month.
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If the Republican Party's nominating process were like Donald Trump's TV show "The Apprentice," could he avoid hearing the words "You're fired"?
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President Barack Obama will sign a bill in the Oval Office on Thursday naming a new federal courthouse in Yuma, Arizona, after slain federal Judge John M. Roll.
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Thousands of teachers, prison guards and students descended on the Wisconsin Capitol on Wednesday to try to preserve the collective bargaining rights of public employees.
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With a wish of good luck from his boss, new White House Press Secretary Jay Carney held his first briefing Wednesday and came off very much like the man he replaced.
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Sen. John Kerry was scheduled to be in Pakistan on Wednesday "to reaffirm U.S. support for the strategic relationship between the two countries," U.S. officials said.
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Criticism of President Obama's 2012 budget from both the left and right shows that most likely find favor with independents, an expert on the influential voting bloc said.
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Sen. John Kerry was scheduled to be in Pakistan on Wednesday "to reaffirm U.S. support for the strategic relationship between the two countries," U.S. officials said.
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Middle Eastern leaders "can't be behind the curve" as their populations demand change, President Barack Obama said Tuesday after protesters forced out Egypt's longtime strongman and faced a government crackdown in Iran.
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The serious and necessary debate on comprehensive immigration reform has been clouded by a debate over birthright citizenship.
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The post-Mubarak Egyptian government has asked the United States to freeze the financial assets of some officials from that country, according to a senior Obama Administration official.
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Why would President Obama's budget proposal, if enacted, fall short of the one offered in December by the commission he created? What could they do that Obama and his budget planners couldn’t?
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Liberals called President Obama's 2012 budget plan a callous assault on the poor; conservatives labeled it a debt-riddled assault on the future. So does that mean the center likes it?
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Congress has created elaborate rules and mechanisms to keep track of spending, but in recent years, they haven't worked too well. Here's a guide to the budget struggle that begins on Monday.
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Presidential budgets are more political documents than anything else, and this budget is by someone who wants to win re-election in 2012. Now we wait for the GOP's counter-offer.
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A former Department of Agriculture employee who was forced to resign last year after the posting of a misleading video has filed suit against Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who posted it.
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Deep cuts in President Obama proposed 2012 budget rolling out today that proposes painful cuts in many government programs, but the plan fails to address long-term problems.
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The Obama administration launched into diplomatic outreach throughout the Middle East Saturday, even as it tries to determine the composition of the Egyptian military council and the exact lines of authority in the future Egyptian government.
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Republicans angling for his job compared President Barack Obama to a one-term Democratic president and a Democratic vice president who fell short in his bid to win the presidency.
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Just picture the Donald Trump for President bumper sticker: "Barack Obama, You're Fired."
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President Obama Friday hailed the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, saying the people of Egypt have spoken; their voices have been heard and Egypt will never be the same.”
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Top American officials welcomed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's decision to step down Friday, but urged all sides to ensure a peaceful transition to democracy.
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Wild cheers erupted from tens of thousands of demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square after word spread that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned.
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The Montana House of Representatives voted 63-37 Thursday to repeal the state's six-year-old medical marijuana law.
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs steps down from the post Friday, after two years as President Barack Obama's top spokesman.
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After Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announces he's delegating power, U.S. President Barack Obama says "it is not yet clear that this transition is immediate, meaningful or sufficient."
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A JPMorgan Chase executive admitted to Congress that the bank did a "terrible job" of dealing with military home loans.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stubbornly clung to the presidency Thursday night, refusing to step down by saying he does not take orders from anyone outside Egypt.
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President Barack Obama outlined plans Thursday to extend wireless coverage to 98% of Americans over the next five years, arguing that a new telecommunications investment is needed to help the U.S. economy compete in a rapidly modernizing global marketplace.
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Real estate mogul Donald Trump says he is seriously thinking about running for president but won't make a final decision until summer.
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With less than a year to go till the Iowa caucus, the conventional wisdom is that President Obama is vulnerable, but there is no Republican who can beat him.
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During Donald Rumsfeld's first public appearance since the release of his new book, he praised many former elected officials and a surprising number of them are Democrats.
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U.S. Rep. Christopher Lee, R-N.Y., has resigned after reports surfaced that the married congressman was trying to meet women on Craigslist.
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President Barack Obama's spokesman listed Wednesday specific steps the Egyptian government needs to take to satisfy the demands of protesters convulsing the country.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned Wednesday that the threat of terrorism against the United States was in some ways "at its most heightened state" since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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President Barack Obama and Republican leaders in the House agreed Wednesday that their lunch meeting at the White House yielded some common ground.
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Fed chief Ben Bernanke said Wednesday the drop in unemployment over the last two months is encouraging, but cautioned that it will take several years for hiring to return to normal.
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President Obama has a noble idea. He argues that if the government is going to spend money to give a boost to the economy, whose growth is slow and anemic, why not use those funds to buy goodies we want anyhow?
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With less than one year to go before the Iowa caucuses, this year's Conservative Political Action Conference has added significance for this year's GOP hopefuls.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch doesn't want to follow his fellow Utah Republican Bob Bennett out of the Senate with the tea party hot on his heels.
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A senior Congressman just back from Afghanistan painted an upbeat picture of military operations there, but predicted only a small number of U.S. forces will be withdrawn this summer.
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Members of Congress told senior Pakistani leaders that billions of dollars of U.S. aid are in jeopardy unless an American diplomat, detained since January 27 in connection with the shooting deaths of two Pakistani civilians, is released.
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The centrist Democratic Leadership Council, which helped Bill Clinton win the White House in 1992, is on the verge of closing its doors. What hurt the DLC more than anything else? It never figured out how to survive when Clinton was no longer the Democratic Party's center of gravity.
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House Republicans are holding hearings this week on legislation restricting federal support for abortion -- a move that has little support in the Democratic-controlled Senate or White House.
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None of them has announced plans to run and all have unique weaknesses. But for now, the familiar faces of those considering a 2012 run are leading polls.
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The demonstrations that erupted on January 25 were driven by Egyptians' aspirations for greater dignity in their lives. Most Egyptians have seen their standard of living deteriorate over the past decade because of rising unemployment, persistent inflation and stagnant wages.
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The White House press secretary says the Egyptian government, while planning a transition to multiparty democracy, should outline a timeline acceptable to the Egyptian people.
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The demonstrations that erupted on January 25 were driven by Egyptians' aspirations for greater dignity in their lives. Most Egyptians have seen their standard of living deteriorate over the past decade because of rising unemployment, persistent inflation and stagnant wages.
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President Obama delivers a speech at the Chamber of Commerce today. Many are casting it as the White House appeasing an adversary, but the same can be said of the Chamber, too.
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An Israeli observer describes the mood of this country's leadership as it watches the crisis in Egypt: "It varies," he said, "from gloom to doom."
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When the Egyptian people took to the streets of Cairo to protest the oppressive government of President Hosni Mubarak, they instantly challenged one of the most powerful strains of U.S. foreign policy thinking.
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Sarah Palin says the Obama administration must tell Americans what it knows about who will be Egypt's next leader.
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From unrest in Egypt to the 100th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's birth, here's what you might have missed on the Sunday talk shows:
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Four-star Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli -- the number two general in the U.S. army -- says he is absolutely not offended that Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett mistook him for a waiter at a fancy Washington dinner this week and asked him for a glass of wine.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak a good friend and U.S. ally, and he urged the Obama administration to move cautiously as turmoil continued to shake that nation's government.
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A U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty that limits the number of atomic warheads the former Cold War foes can possess and allows them to inspect each other's arsenals — securing a key foreign policy goal of President Barack Obama — went into effect Saturday.
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Sarah Palin says America is dangerously out of step with the values of Ronald Reagan and on the "road to ruin."
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Democrats had FDR and later JFK to lionize, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a modern Republican with more continued popularity than The Gipper.
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NASA may announce who will command the upcoming flight of the space shuttle Endeavour during a news conference Friday.
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The United States is stepping up pressure on the opposition to begin immediate negotiations with the Egyptian government toward a political transition.
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While talking publicly in generalities about a smooth transition, U.S. officials are working behind the scenes on ways to move that process forward, an official said.
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The White House stepped up its campaign for an end to the violence in Egypt as President Obama called for greater respect for the "rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people."
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President Barack Obama plugged his plans to boost energy conservation research Thursday during a visit to Pennsylvania, arguing that green technology will leave more green in Americans' wallets.
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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld concludes in his new autobiography that the war in Iraq has been worth the cost and remains largely unapologetic about his handling of the conflict, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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The-cat-and mouse game between protesters and governments in the Mideast and North Africa is not just taking place in the streets.
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President Barack Obama signed ratification documents for America's new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia on Wednesday, clearing the way for the two powers to put the landmark accord into effect.
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican effort to repeal the health care reform bill passed last year on a 51-47 vote along party lines.
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Egyptian President Mubarek will be leaving, and nobody is sure what will emerge in his wake. The effects will be felt not just in the Middle East but back in the U.S.
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday are expected to block a procedural motion to consider legislation repealing the health care reform bill passed last year.
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The debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act once more reached a fever pitch on Monday when U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson issued an order declaring the law unconstitutional.
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President Obama said Tuesday evening that he believes an orderly transition from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to a new government "must begin now."
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Right now, the Obama White House has been reduced to a spectator watching today's rally and protest in Egypt.
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