Lawmakers to get classified drone info
President Barack Obama has directed the Justice Department to give Congress' intelligence committees access to classified legal advice providing the ...
Obama meets with Senate Democrats, talks strategy
With a big to-do list at the start of his second term, President Barack Obama is trying to sell Democrats on his strategy for tackling immigration, ...
Boy Scouts delay decision on policy excluding gays
Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off until May a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays.
Obama seeks to reset relationship with Netanyahu
After a long and chilly four years, Barack Obama hopes to reset his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he makes his ...
Goodbye Saturday mail? Postal Service plans cuts
Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to ...
Congress considers putting limits on drone strikes
Uncomfortable with the Obama administration's use of deadly drones, a growing number in Congress is looking to limit America's authority to kill ...
Obama to visit Israel, first time as president
President Barack Obama will go to Israel in the spring, the White House said Tuesday, marking his first visit to the staunch U.S. ally since becoming ...
White House declines to explain drone policy
The White House is declining to explain its criteria for directing drone attacks against American citizens working abroad with terrorists. A newly ...
Business, unions negotiating guest worker program
Business leaders and labor union officials are delving into high-stakes negotiations over a particularly contentious element of immigration reform — ...
McCain cool to suggestion of Hagel filibuster
Republican Sen. John McCain, a sharp critic of Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary, said Monday he will not support a filibuster of ...
Obama stands firm on gun control despite long odds
President Barack Obama declared Monday on his first trip outside Washington to promote gun control that a consensus is emerging for universal ...
Senate tries again to move anti-violence bill
Senate Democrats, bolstered by Republican support, on Monday launched a new attempt to broaden a law protecting women from domestic abuse by expanding ...
Obama presses his gun proposals in Minnesota
With his gun proposals dividing Congress, President Barack Obama conceded Monday the challenges he faces in winning support for measures ranging from ...
White House photo shows Obama skeet shooting
Two days before President Barack Obama's first trip outside Washington to promote his gun-control proposals, the White House tried Saturday to settle ...
Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey
In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a ...
White House: Hagel will win Senate confirmation
The White House on Friday dismissed criticism of Chuck Hagel's hesitant congressional testimony and insisted that it expects the Senate to confirm him ...
Obama hoping for close match in Super Bowl
President Barack Obama is hoping for a close game in this year's Super Bowl. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the president will watch Sunday's ...
THE RESET: Gov't slowing economic and job growth
President Barack Obama declared last June that "the private sector is doing fine." And President Ronald Reagan liked to tell audiences, "Government ...
Menendez says he reimbursed donor for 2 jaunts
Sen. Robert Menendez's office says he reimbursed a prominent Florida political donor $58,500 on Jan. 4 of this year for the full cost of two of three ...
Iran says it will speed up nuclear program
In a defiant move ahead of nuclear talks, Iran has announced plans to vastly increase its pace of uranium enrichment, which can make both reactor fuel ...
Obama decides not to extend term of jobs council
President Barack Obama is letting his jobs council expire, cutting off one source of input from business leaders while unemployment remains stubbornly ...
Economic jitters compete with Obama agenda
Just as President Barack Obama is pushing new initiatives on gun control and immigration, the gloomy old problem of a sluggish economy is elbowing its ...
Teen performer at inaugural events fatally shot
A 15-year-old girl who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities is the latest face on the ever-increasing homicide toll in ...
GOP lawmakers see automatic cuts as leverage
There's a growing sense of resignation that the country's political leaders will be unable or unwilling to find a way around looming automatic ...
Mass. gov's ex-aide Cowan named interim US senator
Although his time in the U.S. Senate will be brief — less than five full months — William "Mo" Cowan could find himself in the thick of major policy ...
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