WASHINGTON -- A two-star general who commands U.S. Army forces in Japan has been suspended from his duties for allegedly failing to report or properly investigate an allegation of sexual...
WASHINGTON -- Memo to supporters of bipartisan legislation moving to the Senate floor: Make sure you stress that immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally would have to work, learn English, pass a background check and, especially, pay taxes before they could gain citizenship.
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Opening a two-day summit, President Barack Obama drew attention to contentious economic and cybersecurity issues Friday night as he warmly received Chinese President Xi Jinping to a California desert estate for high-stakes talks.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration says it has provided Congress with 97 pages of documents related to the September attack in Benghazi, Libya.
WASHINGTON -- Prosecutors Friday recommended four years in prison for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., following his guilty plea this year on criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items.
WASHINGTON -- The Air Force has put a female two-star general in charge of a beefed-up office responsible for sexual assault prevention and response, elevating its status at a time of increasing political pressure to crack down on sexual abuses.
BOSTON -- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has a portion of a street named after him in his hometown of Chicago.
WASHINGTON -- More Americans hunted for jobs in May, and more companies filled them -- signs of confidence and resilience for the slow-healing U.S. economy.
WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials say they have found bacteria and fungus in drug vials from a Tennessee specialty pharmacy that recalled all of its injectable medicines last month.
WASHINGTON -- In the storm that blew up Thursday over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing a subpoena of telecom data from Verizon, the resulting alliances made for some strange bedfellows with ideologies clashing, at times, with party labels.
BOSTON - Democrats are dispatching a lineup of political heavyweights to Massachusetts, backed by a river of outside money, to head off the possibility that another upstart Republican pulls off a Senate special election stunner.
WASHINGTON -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors would be relegated to cheerleaders for the nation's schools, and governors would be put in charge of classrooms under companion bills Senate and House Republicans introduced Thursday.
WASHINGTON -- An Internal Revenue Service official whose division staged a lavish $4.1 million training conference and who starred as Mr. Spock in a "Star Trek" parody shown at the 2010 gathering conceded to Congress on Thursday that taxpayer dollars were wasted in the episode.
WASHINGTON -- A senior administration official is stressing the legality and court-approved limits on the reported existence of a program used by the National Security Administration and the FBI to scour the nation's main Internet companies.
UNDATED -- The Presidential campaign has ended, but former Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, said he still regrets making the infamous 47% comment.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE -- The White House says a court order allowing the government to secretly collect millions of U.S. citizens' telephone records is a critical tool to fight security threats.
WASHINGTON -- A leaked document lays bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records -- hundreds of millions of calls -- in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks.
PHILADELPHIA -- A family spokeswoman says a dying 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl's condition has worsened as she awaits a lung transplant.
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder says as long as he's in office, the Justice Department will not prosecute any reporter for doing his or her job.
BOSTON -- Democrat Edward Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have clashed in their first debate in Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate election, sparring on abortion, national security and guns.
