Politics

US offers $10M for info leading to 2 Sudanese men
The Obama administration is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the capture of two men convicted of killing an American diplomat in ...
Black ties, booze and access marks of inauguration
This is K Street on steroids. South Carolinians will be celebrating President Barack Obama's inauguration with cocktails amid the Hope Diamond and ...
Hagel's own words are fodder for critics
Chuck Hagel was blunt-spoken in the Senate, even when bucking fellow Republicans. Now opponents in his own party and elsewhere are using Hagel's words ...
Iran says it's hopeful on Hagel nomination
Iran's Foreign Ministry says it is hopeful the appointment of former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon would improve relations ...
Hundreds hold Colo. vigil for elk killed by police
The elk was honored with a makeshift memorial of candles, songs and stories. Several hundred people attended a vigil Sunday in Boulder, Colo., for the ...
Obama digs in for a fight on Hagel, Brennan picks
Digging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former senator and combat ...
Deal restores severance pay for military gays
Dozens of gay and lesbian former military service members who were discharged due to their homosexuality will receive the rest of their severance pay ...
Obama, Karzai to meet in Washington on Friday
President Barack Obama will host Afghan President Hamid Karzai (HAH'-mihd KAHR'-zeye) at the White House on Friday. It's the first in-person meeting ...
THE RESET: Obama, GOP drawing battle lines
President Barack Obama is heading toward bruising fights on Capitol Hill on multiple fronts even before second-term Inauguration Day festivities fade.
Gov't spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement
The Obama administration spent more money on immigration enforcement in the last fiscal year than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, ...
Obama's CIA pick chose spycraft over priesthood
John Brennan was headed for the priesthood when, while sitting idly on a bus as a student at Fordham University in the 1970s, he stumbled on a ...
Obama sends military one of its own as DOD chief
President Barack Obama said he was sending the U.S. military "one of its own" Monday as he selected decorated Vietnam combat veteran Chuck Hagel to ...
Hagel nomination unnerves some in Israel
President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next U.S. secretary of defense is causing jitters in Israel, where some circles view the ...
Conn. mayor: Name school for teacher in massacre
The mayor of a city near Newtown, Conn., on Monday proposed naming a school after Victoria Soto, a teacher who was killed in last month's elementary ...
Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIA
Despite Republican misgivings, President Barack Obama announced Monday he will nominate former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, ...
McChrystal calls for enduring Afghan force
Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal said Monday he backs the White House's drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan slated for 2014, but added that the U.S.
Hillary Clinton back at work after hospitalization
Cheers, a standing ovation and a gag gift of protective headgear greeted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she returned to work on Monday ...
Key aide says he passed cash to then-Detroit mayor
A high-ranking aide to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick told jurors Monday that he picked up thousands of dollars in bribes for his boss from a ...
Obama taps homeland security aide to head CIA
President Barack Obama has tapped White House homeland security adviser John Brennan as his nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. Obama on ...
GOP scoffs at Obama's "no-negotiation" vow on debt
President Barack Obama, meet Congressman Michael Burgess. The president says he absolutely will not let Republicans threaten a national debt ceiling ...
Court to hear 2 days of arguments on gay marriage
The Supreme Court says it will hear two days' worth of arguments over laws affecting gay marriage during the last week of March. Justices on Monday ...
Chuck Hagel, likely nominee to lead Pentagon
Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is a contrarian Republican moderate and decorated Vietnam combat veteran who is likely to support a more rapid ...
Column: In Washington, compromise's embers flicker
Every election year, they become the popular ones, the celebrities with the power to hire or fire politicians. Then, when actual governing begins, ...
McChrystal regrets magazine flap was career-killer
Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he was "completely surprised" by the uproar that followed publication of a Rolling Stone article featuring ...
Second time with Obama not as thrilling as before
Four years and one re-election after Barack Obama became America's first black president, some of the thrill is gone. Yes, the inauguration of a U.S.