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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reached a compromise with Senate Republicans on seven of President Obama's executive nominations ...

She has not yet been fully confirmed, but the Senate Foreign Relations Committee appeared to clear the way ...

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at the NAACP's annual convention today amid the group's cry for ...

At a press conference at his campaign headquarters in Largo, Maryland, Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown announced on ...

President Obama has a lot on his agenda including foreign policy issues, like Egypt and Syria, the economy, ...

President Barack Obama directed his administration on July 8 to pursue sleeker, more efficient government processes, saying more ...

The Supreme Court struck down an essential part of the historic 1965 Voting Rights Act on June 25, ...

 Shelby County, Alabama no longer needs to be under federal oversight for discriminatory voting practices, according to the ...

The Supreme Court in a seven to one opinion sent the much anticipated affirmative action case back to ...

WASHINGTON—If Congress does not act concerning the interest rate of subsidized student loans, called Stafford loans, the interest ...

Seeking to quell a media outcry over access to public records, the governor's administration on Thursday said it ...

Amendments that would have cut $2 billion per year from the federal food stamp program scuttled a badly ...

The House voted against its Farm Bill June 20, after the Senate had passed its own version.

Drones are used for surveillance of U.S. citizens, but in a "very, very minimal way," said FBI Director ...

Sarah Palin's speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual conference on Saturday lacked none of the colorful ...

  ATLANTA—Outside Republican Senator Johnny Isakson’s office, Terry Gathings had the unenviable job of telling a group of ...

Starting on June 11 at 2:15 p.m., the U.S. Senate is discussing,after a vote to proceed, a bill ...

WASHINGTON—President Obama says former U.N. ambassador Susan Rice will have big shoes to fill in replacing Thomas Donilon ...

The Wetumpka TEA Party, Inc., along with other groups, is suing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for exerting ...

A lack of proper screening is allowing sex offenders to gain entrance to the U.S. military, the Senate ...

NEW YORK—His campaign is a mere 14 days young, but Democratic Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has proven time ...

R.I. governor to become Dem: Lincoln Chafee has told senior Democratic Party officials that he will switch his ...

In a landmark speech on national security, President Barack Obama on Thursday called for an “end to perpetual ...

Bob Dole GOP: Former presidential candidate Bob Dole said that the Republican Party isn't what it used to ...

10 TAKE-AWAYS FROM OBAMA'S COUNTER-TERRORISM SPEECH

Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) expressed hope that a bipartisan immigration reform bill will pass, when he met with ...