
Hagel pick test of Senate on presidential choices
In the middle of a bitter fight over a Republican president's nominee for defense secretary, a former White House occupant pleaded with senators to ...

Ex-President George H.W. Bush leaves the hospital
Former President George H.W. Bush was released from a Houston hospital and went home Monday after spending nearly two months being treated for a ...

AP Interview: George P. Bush weighing run in Texas
George Prescott Bush is gearing up to run for a little-known but powerful office in a state where his family already is a political dynasty and where ...

Kerry's words on Assad certain to draw scrutiny
Sen. John Kerry has held up Syria as a country that could bring peace and stability to the Mideast and predicted that the now-disgraced government of ...
Gun dealers challenge rifle reporting requirement
A lawyer for two Arizona gun dealers argued Wednesday that the Obama administration in trying to halt the flow of U.S. guns to Mexican drug gangs ...

Spokesman: Ex-President George HW Bush recovering
President George H.W. Bush's recovery from a bronchitis-related cough and subsequent complications is "continuing" and there's still no timetable for ...

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, ...
Correction: Obit-Schwarzkopf story
In a story Dec. 28 about the death of U.S. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, The Associated Press reported erroneously the date of Schwarzkopf's birth. He was ...
German magazine mistakenly publishes Bush obituary
Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel mistakenly published an obituary Sunday for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, hours after a family ...

Former President Bush moved out of intensive care
Former President George H.W. Bush's condition continued to improve Saturday, prompting doctors to move him out of intensive care, a spokesman said.

Health of George H.W. Bush 'improving'
Former President George H.W. Bush remained in intensive care at a Houston hospital on Friday but his condition continues to improve, a spokesman said.
Reaction to death of Norman Schwarzkopf
Reaction to the death Thursday of retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf: ___ "With the passing of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, we've lost an American ...

Ex-President Bush spends Christmas in hospital
Former President George H.W. Bush spent Christmas in a Houston hospital with his wife, Barbara, and other relatives who planned to treat him to a ...

Analysis: GOP policies led to fiscal cliff blowup
House Republicans seem shocked by their party's meltdown on the so-called fiscal cliff. They shouldn't be. The uncompromising conservatives who ...
Official: Bush may leave hospital before Christmas
Ex-President George H.W. Bush's monthlong stay in a Houston hospital for treatment of a bronchitis-related cough appears to be nearing an end.
HBO, Scorsese making film on Clinton
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese is making a documentary on Bill Clinton for HBO. HBO announced Monday that Scorsese is producing and directing the film, ...

Bar code's co-inventor N. Joseph Woodland dies, 91
Norman Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores and has boosted productivity in nearly every sector ...
Bush could leave Houston hospital before Christmas
Ex-President George H.W. Bush can look forward to spending the holidays at home after nearly three weeks in a Houston hospital with a ...

Joe Allbritton, 87, DC media, banking giant dies
Joe L. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men through a media conglomerate of newspapers and television stations and a ...

THE RESET: Debt limit looms as next fiscal cliff
We now know what's on the other side of that menacing year-end "fiscal cliff." Another cliff. While White House and Republican congressional leaders ...
Court hears challenge to Obama recess appointments
Republicans and business groups told a federal appeals court Wednesday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution earlier this year when ...

THE RESET: Obama, GOP circling on fiscal crisis
Democrats and Republicans are haunted by memories of budget deals gone bad. It's making it hard for them to put hope over experience and avert a ...