WASHINGTON -- Michael Froman, a senior White House economic adviser and classmate of President Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, on Wednesday won Senate confirmation...

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), one of the House's most vocal opponents of the immigration legislation being debated in the Senate , is holding a marathon, six-hour press conference to rally opposition to the legislation.  The attendees are not necessaril...

(WASHINGTON) — Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses. The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary bonuse...

House votes to cut food stamps by $2 billion Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 6:47 pm, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 The chamber reje...

Biden calls for DC voting rights during tribute Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 5:53 pm, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 During a cere...

Journalist Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash on Tuesday. The Buzzfeed writer and Rolling Stone contributing editor fearlessly covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and American society in general — without pandering to power, while writ...

Russia could stand in way of Obama's nuke cuts Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 1:22 pm, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP...

They’re snooping from the skies, too. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Wednesday for the first time that the bureau has used drones for surveillance operations inside the U.S. — but only in a “very, very minimal way.”        

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun violence group on Tuesday held an event reading out the names of victims of gun violence since Newtown -- and included Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Today, Mayors Against Illegal Guns told The Atlantic Wire that...

Here's the truth about President Obama's job approval numbers: They don't move around all that much. New numbers from Pew Research Center tell that story. Forty nine percent of respondents approved of the job President Obama while 43 percent disappr...