Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that her department will help find out why last week’s Boston Marathon bombings occurred and “what more we can do to prevent attacks like this in the future…. We...

George W. Bush "will return to the spotlight this week for the dedication of his presidential library, an event likely to trigger fresh public debate about his eight fateful years in office. But he reemerges with a better public image than when he le...

The 19-year-old charged with the Boston Marathon bombing, his throat injured by a gunshot wound, wrote down answers to the questions of investigators about his motives and connections to any terror networks. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s answers led them to be...

Although Washington’s battle over gun control ground to a sudden halt earlier this month, proponents of overhaul legislation say the fight is far from over. But while the political ground may have shifted, there is no denying the massive sway of the ...

Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here . Leading Off : • SC-01 : Following last week's utter Mark Sanford lunacy, Public Policy Polling went back into South Carolina's 1st Con...

By Albert R. Hunt Apr 23, 2013 11:08 AM ET Max Baucus of Montana may be giving some good news to Senate Democratic leaders and the White House. According to reports, the Senate Finance Committee chairman has decided not to seek a seventh term in 2014...

The Obama administration will be trying Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in civilian court and in accordance with the Constitution . Contrary to freak-outs from the right, this was the right thing to do, and in op-eds and editorials from coa...

The outcome of Wednesday’s dramatic Senate vote on expanding background checks simultaneously demonstrated the difficult geography confronting gun-control advocates in the Senate and the potentially...

I felt a bit nostalgic on reading that the U.S. Senate was moving on a bill to enable states to collect sales taxes on online commercial transactions. Back in the 1990s, you see, this was a really big deal to people who believed a New Economy was a...

Anthony Weiner, Back on Twitter -. (Michael Falcone) Marco Rubio is Satirized in Sombrero - Fusion’s Jordan Fabian draws our attention to the anti-reform pins that feature Marco Rubio in a sombrero – FIRST ON ABC: Diane Sawyer to Speak with George W....