Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election, a stunning decision that apparently ends a political dynasty that dominated the city for more than a half…
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The White House says President Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon.
U.S. Officials to Discuss N. Korea Impasse in Asia
The incumbent senator says she’s been inundated with calls and e-mails from supporters, asking her not to leave the race, and she’s weighing her options
Condoleezza Rice advised President Bush to stay away from Washington in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by raising her voice in a heated exchange and hanging up the phone, the former…
While President Obama touts the new health care law everywhere he goes, many members of his party are saying just the opposite in re-election ads, making sure their constituents know they voted…
The questioner who triggered an Internet-sensation retort from Rep. Barney Frank at a town hall meeting last year is challenging the 15-term Democrat’s re-election bid.
In an honor that could be misinterpreted as a slap in the face, a Los Angeles school district has named a new academy after Al Gore — the only problem is the school was built on toxic soil.
Attorney General Eric Holder was meeting Tuesday with Muslim and other religious leaders to discuss recent attacks on Muslims and the uproar over a planned mosque near Ground Zero in New York.
The Obama administration’s latest get-the-economy-out-of-its-rut proposal will create jobs “immediately,” the president says — so long as immediately doesn’t mean this year.
An accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping — and may not even survive, The New York…
A new wave of polls and projections capping the Labor Day weekend shows voters are souring, perhaps irreversibly, toward the idea of giving Democrats another chance at shaping the agenda in…
The State Department described as “un-American” plans by a controversial church to burn Korans in memory of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks — though the head of that church says he is not…
The U.S. government’s financial commitment to Afghanistan is likely to linger and reach into the billions long after it pulls combat troops from the country, newly disclosed spending estimates show….
It may look like a second stimulus and smell like a second stimulus, but President Obama insists that’s no way to describe the new set of initiatives he’s introducing this week in his latest effort…