By Christi Parsons and Julian E. Barnes
As President Obama measures the potential burden of a new war strategy in Afghanistan, his administration is struggling to come up with even...
By Mark Silva
With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a healthcare bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the...
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) wanted people to stop complaining for a day and count their blessings.
By Katherine Skiba
What's the hottest ticket in the nation's capital? An engraved invitation to Tuesday's White House state dinner, the first hosted by...
Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and unfair...
By Sebastian Rotella
Around here, the grim joke goes, most people work for the government or the mafias.
By Noam N. Levey
Without a vote to spare, Democrats pushed their healthcare legislation over its first obstacle on the Senate floor Saturday, as the...
By Tina Susman
There on the left is the plush booth where Dustin Hoffman's character shocked his -- or would that be her? -- agent into ordering a double...
By Johanna Neuman and Mark Milian
A few weeks ago, Fox News had the White House on the defensive. Network anchors were scoring political points by ridiculing President...
By Tina Susman
There on the left is the plush booth where Dustin Hoffman's character shocked his -- or would that be her? -- agent into ordering a double...
By Amina Khan
The 200 judges at the biomedical science fair surveyed the exhibits, pursing their lips. They clutched their clipboards, rating the...
By Jim Tankersley and Henry Chu
Is it a "Warmist Conspiracy," or a case of an e-mail being "taken completely out of context"?