John Kerry seeks support for British-led move as means of pressuring Bashar al-Assad to enter into peace negotiations The United States is lobbying European governments to back a British-led call to amend the EU arms embargo on Syria to put pressure...

The chief judge of the District’s federal court issued an unusual order Wednesday, apologizing to the public and the media for not making certain court documents widely available online. The gesture of transparency by U.S. District Judge Royce C. La...

Only a month after the Manchin-Toomey gun-control legislation died in the Senate, we already have a test case of how the issue will play out before voters. Gun control has emerged this week as a major issue in the the special election for John Kerry...

(IOWA CITY, Iowa) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were education...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fought Wednesday morning over when a vote should be held for a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, which isn't uncommon C-SPAN2 fare. But this battle got particul...

As more revelations surface concerning the White House targeting press members, more and more of Barack Obama's fans in the media are breaking ranks. Count NBC's chief White House correspondent amongst them, for on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday, Chu...

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Wednesday directed that the Pentagon develop– via competitive bid –new healthcare management software that would better integrate military health care records with the Department of Veterans Affairs. The inability ...

President Barack Obama is giving what the White House bills as a major speech on drone and counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University today.  Obama is also outlining some new steps he wants to take to move toward closing the prison a...

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) will recall Internal Revenue Service official Lois G. Lerner to testify before his panel, a spokesman said Thursday. Lerner invoked the Fifth Amendment in her refusal t...

(CNN) -- President Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Oklahoma on Sunday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday...