WASHINGTON: After weeks of delay, the House of Representatives is expected Wednesday to send impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate,...
WASHINGTON: U.S. lawmakers who control the fate of President Donald Trump left Washington for a holiday break Friday with no agreement over how they will...
WASHINGTON: Question: What do you get when you combine Russian agents, a therapy dog and a $15,000 ostrich-skin jacket? Answer: A criminal probe that could...
WASHINGTON: An internal dispute among Donald Trump's advisers broke out into the open on Sunday when his campaign manager warned that the president-elect...
WASHINGTON: U.S.-led air strikes have hit at least 175 targets in ISIS's main oil-producing region over the past month, as Washington intensifies efforts to...
WASHINGTON: Republican support for real estate mogul Donald Trump held firm after a televised presidential debate last week in which he feuded with rivals and...
MILFORD, United States: When Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky travels across the country this week as a newly minted presidential candidate, he will be greeted...
WASHINGTON: As debate rises in Washington over the first thaw in relations between Iran and the United States in decades, powerful oil companies are opting...
WASHINGTON: U.S. lawmakers launched an effort to resolve budget differences in a less confrontational fashion Thursday as Washington picked up the pieces from...
WASHINGTON: Consensus may be hard to find in Washington these days, but many corporate executives and economists seem to agree on one point: The biggest risk...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Wednesday scaled down a long-planned trip to Asia, as a U.S. government shutdown entered a second day with no end in...
WASHINGTON: In April 2011, then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was asked an unusually flattering question by an American journalist: “Are you the...
AUBURN, Washington: Jean and Larry Wood weren’t thinking about politics when they opened Butt’s Tobacco in a tidy strip mall south of Seattle in February...
WASHINGTON: As lawmakers gathered in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday to vote on a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers, staffers in the office of...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama must work with a deeply skeptical partner as he tries to undo painful spending cuts and set U.S. finances on a more...
PALATINE, Illinois: Some schools rally around a football team. Harper College has rallied around a number.When President Barack Obama called for 5 million...
WASHINGTON: On paper, there’s one thing to like about the ugly spending cuts due to kick in Friday: $85 billion in budget savings at a time when...
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine: Things are looking up at the Spurwink Rod and Gun Club.The junior marksmanship team now has matching jackets and Olympic-style rifles....
WASHINGTON: Efforts to avert the "fiscal cliff" began in earnest on Friday as President Barack Obama met with top U.S. lawmakers to seek a deal to head off...
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama swept into the White House four years ago as an agent of change. The nation's first black president won re-election on Tuesday as...
WASHINGTON: This year’s presidential election could be among the closest in U.S. history, as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are...
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are scouting an unlikely path to the White House through the vast forests and blueberry barrens of...
NEW YORK: President Barack Obama joked that his vice president looked good in a swimsuit and said screw-ups can happen in government as he discussed the Libya...
NEW YORK: Locked in a tense race with time running out, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney took time off to exchange light-hearted...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are neck and neck in opinion polls, but there is one area in which the incumbent...