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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the scandal over the agency's e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday shifted the United States away from a "boundless global war on...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Representative Darrell Issa said on Thursday he will call Internal Revenue Service official...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a scandal about extra tax scrutiny of conservat...
ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man who turned violent while being questioned abo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in U.S. suburbs surpassed the number of poor in cities over the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved legislation to give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citize...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal President Barack Obama's h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawm...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With no sign of an end to three mushrooming scandals, the White House acknowledged the rising politica...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's top tax official was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a ri...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday sought to defuse controversy over its handling of last year's killing...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers pounded U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday with questions about the Justice Depa...
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A man less than two weeks into a planned journey to dribble a soccer ball from his home city ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutio...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Associated Press said on Monday the U.S. government secretly seized telephone records of AP office...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top transportation safety agency voted on Tuesday to recommend a lower blood alcohol limit for dri...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled a U.S. diplomat on Tuesday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, spec...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama learned on Monday what can happen to presidents caught up in allegations of sca...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers called on Sunday for a broad investigation of the tax agency's acknowledgemen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. diplomat in Libya gave a dramatic account on Wednesday of the attack on the mission in B...
DOVER, Delaware (Reuters) - Delaware legalized gay marriage on Tuesday, making it the 11th U.S. state to extend marriage righ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Monday to give states the power to enforce their sales tax laws on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The officer in charge of a program to curb sexual assault in the U.S. Air Force was arrested over the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will travel on Thursday to Austin, Texas, the first stop in a new series of day...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment rose more than expected in April and hiring was much stronger than previously thought in th...
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attacks on the Boston Marathon had origin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Settlers at Virginia's Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 160...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A few dozen words rushed into law days after the September 11, 2001, attacks have been used to justify...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it would allow the Plan B One-Step contraceptive...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying it was damaging to U.S. interests to keep holding prisoners in legal limbo at Guantanamo, Presi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment: h...
(Reuters) - Prominent criminal defense lawyer Judy Clarke, who has represented defendants in some of the most high-profile de...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Ame...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two bombs that went off at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 264, were detona...
WASHINGTON/CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence was alerted when one of the Boston bombing suspects travele...
By Robbie WardTUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against a Mississippi man accused o...
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police captured a 19-year-old man on Friday night suspected of carrying out the Boston M...
BOSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told a memorial service for the Boston bombing victims that "we will find"...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt...
(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges on Thursday against a Mississippi man, who worked as an Elvis imperson...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers appeared on Tuesday to be short of th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities on Tuesday intercepted a letter sent to Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker that preliminary ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited landmark legislation to remove the thr...
SEOUL (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed as "unacceptable by any standard" weeks of bellicose warn...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate cleared the way on Thursday for debate on proposals to curb gun violence, rejecting an effo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate cleared the way on Thursday for an emotional, weeks-long debate on proposals to curb gun vi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for a gun control bill's passage in the Senate in coming weeks got a boost on Wednesday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday proposed a budget that sharply trims the U.S. deficit over three years by...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said on Monday it will deploy for the first time a laser weapon on one of its ships that...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to overhaul the immigration system would likely be completed by the end of this week, two senio...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs in a budget p...
By Jack Kim and Phil StewartSEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said it would soon send a missile defense system t...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, seeking political redemption after a sex ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The crack of the bat, packed crowds and the smell of hot dogs on the grill signaled Major League Basebal...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea announced plans on Tuesday to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor that has been closed since 2...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With business and labor now in agreement, a bipartisan group of senators has resolved all major issues...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Actress Ashley Judd's next role will not be as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kentu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After two days of Supreme Court arguments over same-sex marriage, the United States may be left with t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday indicated they could be inclined to strike down a la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the second day running, the Supreme Court on Wednesday will confront the issue of gay marriage, he...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eight months before President Barack Obama's health care law goes prime time, a confederation of i...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A recovery team funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has plucked two rocket engines from t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The majority of Americans favor giving millions of illegal immigrants a way to earn citizenship, accor...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday picked Indiana University to win the NCAA annual men's college...
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Israel on Wednesday without any new peace initiative to offer disillus...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans plan to embrace tactics to attract more racial minorities, women, youth and low-income Ame...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading congressional Republicans said on Sunday a broad deal with President Barack Obama on deficit r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative activists picked Senator Rand Paul on Saturday as their preferred presidential nominee fo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, called President Barack Obama a liar and u...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder on Thursday named a lawyer with deep expertise in corporate bankruptcy as t...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met on Wednesday with his toughest critics in Washington - House of Representat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans commuting by public transportation rose to the second highest level on record ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers stepped up hiring in February, adding a greater-than-expected 236,000 workers to their ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An undercover agent with a fake explosive device in his pants was able to pass through two security ch...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation easily passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday to avert another partisan budget b...
CARACAS (Reuters) - Shattered supporters of Hugo Chavez mourned his death in a flood of emotion that allies of the socialist ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - In a new book published on Tuesday former Florida Governor Jeb Bush seeks to claim the middle ground on the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four months after his bitter election defeat, a reflective Mitt Romney said it "kills" him n...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government hurtled on Friday toward making deep spending cuts that threaten to hinder the nat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate have spread his gun-control proposals acro...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Argo" stormed to Best Picture victory at the Oscars on Sunday on a night of surprises that...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service, desperate and almost broke, is looking to the wallets of younger Americans fo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. citizens believe that most or all of the country's 11 million illegal immig...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of a civil rights leader and a one-time rising star in D...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will make a fresh push on Tuesday to force congressional Republicans to make co...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is drafting a backup immigration reform plan in case a bipartisan congressional commit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress on Tuesday to raise the minimum wage and mak...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions, drawing c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union address on Tuesday with one eye on the politic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's public admission that he took performance-enhancing drugs will...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House and its critics faced off on Tuesday over the legality of drone strikes to kill U.S. c...
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The medical marijuana shop next to a tattoo parlor on a busy street in Los Angeles looks m...
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The medical marijuana shop next to a tattoo parlor on a busy street in Los Angeles looks m...
BEALLSVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Leon Lieser has been a coal miner 49 years, his bent fingers testament to his first job, loadin...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan plans to build a $30 million amusement park and outdoor activity centre on the ed...
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (Reuters) - Things are looking up at the Spurwink Rod and Gun Club.The junior marksmanship team now has...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chuck Hagel, named to be President Barack Obama's defense chief, defended his record on national s...
Actor Jim Nabors, best known for playing Gomer Pyle on TV in the 1960s, has married his longtime male partner, media sources ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, grievously wounded in a 2011 mass shooting, made an emotional ple...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry's nomination as President Barack Obama's new secretary of state sailed through the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six weeks after the massacre of 26 people at a Connecticut school ignited new calls to fight gun-relat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will wade cautiously into the debate over U.S. immigration reform on Tuesday, s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has agreed on a framework for immigration reform that would provid...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he loves football but thinks the sport should "probably change gradua...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The senator leading the charge to revive a assault weapons ban conceded on Sunday, just days before he...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry urged Congress to fix the U.S. economy to ensure America's role as a world leader and p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell to its lowest si...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will formally end its ban on women serving in front-line combat roles, officials sai...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday forcefully defended her handling of the September 11 a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A measure to extend the U.S. debt limit for nearly four months moved closer on Tuesday to a vote and t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was one of the biggest questions of Monday's inaugural celebrations: not what would President B...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - America's concern over gun violence became the focus of speeches in Atlanta on Monday honoring Dr. Ma...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican President Ronald Reagan declared in 1981 that "government is not the solution to our p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Monday to reject political "absolutism" and partis...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats for the first time in more than three years will pass a budget, a senior Democratic l...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four years after making history by becoming the first African-American president, Barack Obama will ki...
By Lamine ChikhiALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria said several hostages were killed on Thursday when its forces stormed a remote de...
By Susan HeaveyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The current U.S. guideline for immunizing children against polio, whooping cough, measl...
By Lisa Baertlein(Reuters) - A Cheesecake Factory pasta dish with 3,120 calories - or more than a day and a half of the recom...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration dashed the hopes of Star Wars geeks across the galaxy by rejecting an officia...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday rejected any negotiation with Republicans over the most pressing U.S....
(Reuters) - Miss New York won the 2013 Miss America crown on Saturday at the annual pageant which tapped into the reality TV ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is forging ahead on a wide-ranging plan to overhaul the U.S. immigration system...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kathryn Bigelow's snub by Academy Awards voters stunned her cast and awards pundits on Thursday, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than five years after the housing market collapsed, the U.S. government's newly created consu...
WASHINGTON/PHOENIX (Reuters) - A new gun control group led by Gabrielle Giffords, the former U.S. congresswoman wounded in a ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Hollywood award season moves into high gear this week as a slew of televised nominations and awar...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American International Group Inc, the insurer rescued by the U.S. government in 2008, said on...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is weighing a far broader approach to curbing U.S. gun violence than just reinstating ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator, as his next defen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers kept their pace of hiring virtually steady in December, falling short of the levels needed t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is resting at home in New York after being treated for a blood clot...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was discharged from a New York hospital on Wednesday after being tr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of FBI background checks required for Americans buying guns set a record in December, as th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans looked ahead on Wednesday toward the next round o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Setting a looming deadline to avert self-created calamity has become a frequent device for the U.S. Co...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress comes back on Monday without a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" and only a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital on Sunday with a blood clo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., the hard-charging U.S. Army general whose forces smashed the Iraqi army in the...
(Reuters) - The 2012 holiday season may have been the worst for retailers since the 2008 financial crisis, with sales growth ...
WASHINGTON/HONOLULU (Reuters) - Efforts to prevent the U.S. economy from going over a "fiscal cliff" stirred back t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm forced the cancellation of about 200 U.S. flights on Thursday, snarling holida...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charles Durning, a World War Two hero who became one of Hollywood's top character actors in films li...
(Reuters) - The Cincinnati Bengals edged the Pittsburgh Steelers to reach the NFL playoffs, and the Indianapolis Colts joined...
WASHINGTON/NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The powerful U.S. gun rights lobby went on the offensive on Friday arguing that s...
MIAMI (Reuters) - A new generation of talented quarterbacks emerged in 2012 but a refereeing fiasco, worries over concussions...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Friday to keep up the pressure on lawmakers to tighten gun r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday its security chief had resigned from his post and three ot...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Rifle Association said on Tuesday it wanted to contribute meaningfully to prevent another...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya was grossly inadequate to deal with a September 11 att...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce on Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an effort to...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House spelled out some gun control measures on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would sup...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a decorated World War Two veteran who lost an arm in battle and repr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After making major concessions on long-held "fiscal cliff" positions, President Barack Obama...
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26 of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - His words have been eloquent and sympathetic, as they typically are when he is the voice of a nation i...
NEWTOWN, Conn./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, speaking at a memorial service for the victims of a mass shooti...
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - People in the small Connecticut community of Newtown grieved on Saturday over one of the wor...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tearful President Barack Obama expressed "overwhelming grief" on Friday for the victims of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner held a "frank" face...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a close confidante of President Barack Obama...
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that U.S. election officials should register eligi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in Hispanics and Asians is set to dramatically change the face of the United States over the n...
(Reuters) - Pot smokers formally gained the right to light up in Colorado on Monday as Governor John Hickenlooper signed into...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the pace of talks quickened to avert the "fiscal cliff" of steep tax hikes and spending c...
(Reuters) - The Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys both came back from the brink of defeat to win their National Foot...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter James Taylor says he doesn't see the resemblance, but he was pitched - without s...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The South Korean pop singer behind the viral smash hit "Gangnam Style" apologized on Friday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's inauguration committee is accepting corporate donations to help fund the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment grew faster than expected in November, but a drop in the unemployment rate to nearly a four...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign had $25.7 million left in the bank days after the November...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama consumed much of Wednesday talking up their positio...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will renew his case for tax hikes on wealthy Americans to avert a year-end fisc...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans proposed steep spending cuts on Monday but gave no ground on President Barack Obama's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pushed Republicans on Sunday to offer specific ideas to cut the de...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A move by U.S. authorities to consider placing a small grassland bird native to parts of the oil and g...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retailers moving into old downtown buildings, an abundance of freshly planted greenspaces, and a strea...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican unity against raising tax rates for the wealthy began to show cracks on Wednesday after a c...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - To help decorate the White House for the Christmas season this year, President Barack Obama turned to an ...
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Detectives who responded to reports of a shooting at a home in Washington state found a floor...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major tobacco companies that spent decades denying they lied to the U.S. public about the dangers of c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Tuesday conceded that an early account she gave ab...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Monday called on President Barack Obama to detail long-term spendi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain, a vocal opponent of Susan Rice's possible nomination as Secretary of State, s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have made little progress in the past 10 days toward a compromise to avoid the harsh ta...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House report says that if that Congress allows taxes to go up on middle-class families, consum...
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold on Thursday after eight days of confl...
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday pursued a Gaza truce, with Israel and Hamas s...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Paula Broadwell, the biographer whose affair with former CIA chief David Petraeus led t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. lawmakers turned up the heat on Sunday on Susan Rice, saying the U.N. ambassador - see...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. lawmakers expressed confidence on Sunday that they could reach a deal to avert the "...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama consoled grieving victims of Superstorm Sandy on the ground and surveyed disaster...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer used by Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA Director David Petraeus led to his...
Lady Gaga is planning to completely revamp her current world tour before she takes the shows to America in the New Year.The p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday is expected to be grilled about negotiations to avert a looming &q...
PERTH (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, is under investigation for alleged inappropriate...
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to mark the Veterans ...
(Reuters) - New details emerged on Sunday about the extramarital affair that abruptly ended the career of CIA chief David Pet...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director David Petraeus has submitted a letter of resignation to President Barack Obama, Director ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday invited congressional leaders to the White House to start negotiating...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama had little time to savor victory on Wednesday after voters gave him a second te...
(Reuters) - Votes making Colorado and Washington the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use could be sh...
By Sam YoungmanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called it - in less than 140 characters.Around 11:15 pm EST, jus...
By Keith Coffman and Nicole NerouliasDENVER/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legal...
By Steve Holland and Matt SpetalnickWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh from a decisive re-election win, President Barack Obama retu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among v...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sporadic complaints about voting procedures surfaced from Pennsylvania to Florida on Tuesday, while lo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government said on Monday it had ordered the suspension of some housing foreclosures in areas hit ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney make a frenetic dash to a series of cruci...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to President Barack Obama's protective detail was found dead ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney remain effectively tied as public opinion remains re...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy blew the U.S. presidential race off course on Sunday even before it came ashore, forci...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama won the endorsement of retired General Colin Powell, a moderate Republican, on Thu...
BURBANK, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama suspended the levity during an interview with late-night TV talk show ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ellen DeGeneres, an American entertainer and prominent gay rights advocate, received the highest U.S. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most likely book readers in the United States are high-school students, college-age adults and peo...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - When voters in Arizona go to the polls next month, they will be asked to decide a landownership tug of wa...
(Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, a liberal Democrat and fierce opponent of the Vietnam War whose 1972 preside...
(Reuters) - The St Louis Cardinals moved within one win of returning to the World Series with an 8-3 romp over the San Franci...
WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - The death toll from a meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroids jumped to 19 on Wedne...
Justin Bieber and rapper Nicki Minaj have set a new online record after racking up more than 10 million views for their new v...
WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney may have Clint Eastwood on his side, but President Barack Obama has...
(Reuters) - The revitalized St Louis Cardinals made full use of their bullpen to stave off a San Francisco Giants fightback f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The presidential race had seemed on the verge of slipping from Republican Mitt Romney's grasp a we...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's strong performance in last week's debate helpe...
GENEVA (Reuters) - A package of diaries said to have been posted to the United States from Britain in the 1960s could provide...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stayed within striking distance of President Barack Obam...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to a near four-year low of 7.8 percent in September, a potential bo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fears of government austerity likely kept U.S. job gains modest and the unemployment rate elevated in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera became the first Triple Crown winner in 45 years, while the New Yo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After several difficult weeks, Republican Mitt Romney found his footing on Wednesday night in a strong...
DENVER (Reuters) - Mitt Romney battled back in his uphill drive to oust President Barack Obama on Wednesday with an aggressiv...
DENVER (Reuters) - Republican candidate Mitt Romney is under pressure to produce a strong performance on Wednesday at his fir...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Washington Nationals clinched the National League East on Monday, igniting celebrations in this su...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday marks the...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Madonna said on Tuesday she was being deliberately "ironic on stage" when she erro...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Taking a detour from the campaign trail to the world stage, President Barack Obama sought on Tuesd...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday sought to woo women voters at a taping of the daytime talk show "T...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will warn Iran on Tuesday that the United States will "do what we must"...
(Reuters) - Jered Weaver kept the Los Angeles Angels firmly in the playoff hunt by shutting down the Chicago White Sox in a 4...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Daniel McCune graduated from college three years ago, he was optimistic his good grades would ear...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes on more than $13 mill...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour, carried piggyback atop a jumbo jet, landed at Edw...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook has an ugly little secret, a number disclosed nowhere in its voluminous filings to become a p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama invoked blue-collar workers on Tuesday to contrast himself with his Republican ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismissed supporters of President Barack Obama - almost ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voting-rights groups that virtually stopped registering voters in Florida for a year as they challenge...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon, was praised in a NASA memoria...
WASHINGTON/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to "bring to justice" the Islamist...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest at a film they co...
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on thei...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has a growing lead in polls and an easier path to the White House than challeng...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Memorial ceremonies marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks began Tuesday under clear blue s...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pu...
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked Americans on Thursday for patience in rebuilding the weak ...
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two small California cities are the latest battlegrounds in the $111 billion U.S. soda i...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social networking sites play a modest role in influencing most U.S. users' political views, with t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama enters an important campaign week tied with Republican presidential nominee Mit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon warned on Thursday that it was considering legal action against a former U.S. Navy SEAL f...
Duff McKagan made a sick teenager feel like a rock star by performing with him in Seattle, Washington this week.Simone Capell...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy SEAL who has authored a first-hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden says th...
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan Ryan Crocker is facing drunken driving and hit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government was surprised by the news that a Navy SEAL who participated in the raid on Osama b...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressman Todd Akin, under fire for controversial remarks on abortion and rape, insisted on Tuesday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party and presidential candidate Mitt Romney have almost $60 million more in the ba...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare has become a top healthcare issue in the U.S. presidential election, surpassing the controver...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is "dusting off old plans" for a potential release of oil reserves to dampen...
By Jonathan KaminskyOLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Firefighters battled wildfires across the West on Tuesday, including a ma...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has become one of the first modern day U.S. presidents known for enjoying a col...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - July was the hottest month in the continental United States on record, beating the hottest month in th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that mass killings like the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium has...
By Leah SchnurrNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies hired more workers than expected in July, but continued weakness in the ma...
By Diane BartzWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators will require Google Inc to pay a civil penalty of $22.5 million to s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans back the idea of extending health coverage to their low-income neighbors through the go...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mail industry companies are concerned about a looming default by the Postal Service on a $5.5 bill...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pennsylvania State University has enough insurance coverage to deal with lawsuits that might result fr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday renewed his criticism of Chief Justice John Roberts'...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed as expected in the second quarter as consumers spent at their slowest pace...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The religious faiths of President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will have little ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration unveiled a form on Tuesday to help students compare college financial aid off...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered senior Pentagon officials on Thursday to begin monitoring major...
(Reuters) - The Washington Nationals held on in a nervous finish to edge the New York Mets 4-3 on Wednesday and strengthen th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said there was no bad blood between himself and Chief Justic...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Oppressive heat and a worsening drought in the Midwest pushed grain prices near or past record...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, trying to deflect criticism of his lucrative past caree...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not apologize to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for raising...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For weeks, anxious Republicans called on Mitt Romney to respond more aggressively to attacks from the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities were investigating a Washington police officer on Thursday over a possibly threatening rem...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama expanded his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 6 percentage points...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reggae immortal Bob Marley has joined Barack Obama and Elvis Presley in the elite club of those who ha...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Amtrak announced a $151 billion improvement plan on Monday that includes 37-minute trips from Ne...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry said on Monday Texas will not implement an expansion of the Medicaid program or...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign and top Democrats on Sunday called on Mitt Romney to release mor...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will call for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning le...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired at a dismal pace in June, raising pressure on the Federal Reserve to do more to b...
LEWISBURG, W.V. (Reuters) - Six days after violent storms hit the eastern United States, the state of West Virginia was strug...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday contradicted his campaign's stance on a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of Americans headed for parades and fireworks shows on Wednesday to mark a sweltering Fourth ...
(Reuters) - One night last spring, David Hall returned home to his studio apartment outside Boston to learn that his monthly ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago."My first o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A brief, violent storm that brought the U.S. capital to its knees in the midst of a heat wave dramatic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives plans to file a civil suit in federal court in the ne...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blistering heat blanketed much of the eastern United States for the third straight day on Sunday, afte...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shera Bechard, the Canadian-born former girlfriend of Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner, woul...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the end, it all came down to Chief Justice John Roberts, the sphinx in the center chair, who in a s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress on Thursday as the Republican-cont...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Thursday in an election-year t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is carving out a clear lead in swing states that are key to the November 6 pres...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court is set to deliver on Thursday its ruling on President Barack Obama's 2010 health...
WASHINGTON - The campaign toward a major college football playoff has paid off, it appears.Conference commissioners met with ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House will decide on Thursday whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the main provision of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants on Monday, reject...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans oppose President Barack Obama's healthcare reform even though they strongly support...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. television news has become as predictably sensational as reality shows, while journalism in general...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel voted on Wednesday to charge Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday defied the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives, invokin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A jury acquitted Major League Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens on Monday of all six criminal coun...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Sunday of political m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's surprise decision to halt U.S. deportations of young illegal immigrants h...
By Lisa Lambert(Reuters) - Jobless rates in 49 out of the 50 U.S. states dropped in May from a year earlier, the Labor Depart...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will relax enforcement of deportation rules for young people brought to the U...
By Anna YukhananovWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved a new children's vaccine from GlaxoSmithKli...
By Jason LangeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer prices fell in May by the most in more than three years as households paid less...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has notified seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong tha...
By Kate KellandLONDON (Reuters) - Diesel engine fumes can cause lung cancer and belong in the same potentially deadly categor...
By Ian SimpsonBELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A sobbing witness in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse trial testified on...
By Bill RigbySEATTLE (Reuters) - The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and d...
U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson is under investigation for hit-and-run crashes with two cars near his California home ove...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York City's top health official shot back on Thursday at critics who have blasted the city'...
(Reuters) - More than eight months after Occupy Wall Street burst onto the global stage, decrying income inequality and coini...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama enlisted Bill Clinton to campaign alongside him in New York on Monday, tapping th...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin's Scott Walker became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall election on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Abu Yahya al Libi, a Libyan-born top al Qaeda leader, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan ea...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co, owner of the ABC broadcast network and a suite of cable channels, will stop accepting...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Secret Service agents have immunity from a lawsuit by a Colorad...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Advisers to President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney squared...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Job growth in May was the weakest in a year and employers added far fewer jobs in the prior two months...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Snigdha Nandipati, a 14-year-old eighth grader from San Diego, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee o...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A gunman killed four people at a popular Seattle cafe on Wednesday then fled to a downtown parking lot wh...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Joe Burklund of Des Moines, Iowa, lost his job at the depths of recession in 2009 after 30 years ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cost of healthcare services is expected to rise 7.5 percent in 2013, more than three times the pro...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave the United States' top civilian honor on Tuesday to musician Bob Dylan...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday with a resounding victory in Te...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called the treatment decades ago of returning Vietnam War veterans a "nati...
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama honored veterans on Monday by noting "the light of a new day"...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Call it a humble effort to douse the flames of dysfunction and paralysis in the U.S. Senate.Frustrated...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roger Clemens had a close relationship with his ex-strength and conditioning coach who has said he inj...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Musical legend Bob Dylan, novelist Toni Morrison and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration arranged for two Hollywood filmmakers to get special access to government off...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prostitution scandal in Colombia involving U.S. Secret Service employees did not result in any secur...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of sales for existing homes in April rose to its fastest in nearly two years and a falloff in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brian McNamee, the key government witness in the perjury trial of former baseball star Roger Clemens o...
(Reuters) - ATLANTA - When he entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in May 2011, Newt Gingrich was the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who was robbed in February at his Caribbean vacation home b...
By Susan HeaveyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time, there are more black, Hispanic and other minority babies being born...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service will move ahead with a plan to shut or consolidate mail-processing facilities ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House, following a trading loss of more than $2 billion by JPMorgan, wants to ensure a t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. crime statistics show illegal drugs play a central role in criminal acts, providing new evidence ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration forged ahead with healthcare reforms on Wednesday, announcing a November 16 d...
(Reuters) - Personal income tax collections in states in April might have grown an average of more than 7 percent, but for so...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For President Barack Obama's re-election team, it's sort of like threading a needle.While tryi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Jennifer Anderson's family could no longer afford their mortgage and lost their home, she expec...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jean Coyle, 67, has a new kind of ministry.The former professor had just begun a career as a Presbyter...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul effectively ended his White House bid on Monday, saying he ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key prosecution witness who has said he gave former baseball star Roger Clemens performance-enhancin...
Singer Kelly Clarkson has promised to pay a visit to a children's hospital in Washington after several young cancer patie...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service said on Wednesday that it is abandoning for now its plan to close thousands of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of "evolving" on the issue, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina voters on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment that bans same...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The would-be suicide bomber in a plot by al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate was planted in the group by a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum endorsed his one-time fierce rival Mitt Romney ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for ex-pitching ace Roger Clemens sought on Monday to strike a key witness' wavering tes...
DUBAI (Reuters) - An American aid worker abducted by al Qaeda in Pakistan last year has pleaded with U.S. President Barack Ob...
(Reuters) - Traffic fatalities on roads in 2011 fell to their lowest level since federal safety regulators started counting i...
(Reuters) - Most young American drivers agree that it is dangerous to text while driving, but nearly a third admit they do it...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put en...
(Reuters) - A recent opinion piece in the New York Times resurrected the age-old debate about whether ugly buildings deserved...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives on Monday will fire their first shots of the next deficit-...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers cut back on hiring in April and more people stopped looking for work, dimming hopes the econ...
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - American industrialist David Koch, a major supporter of conservative causes, said on Thursday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Airlines is putting the finishing touches on an order for at least 100 Boeing Co 737 narrowbody...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pulled into a virtual tie with President Barack Obam...
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich ended his tumultuous run for U.S. president on Wednesday after dazzling in tele...
BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death with a s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman, Richard Grenell, has resigned after only a brie...
KABUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement charting future relations wit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, a key witness against former teammate Roger Clemens in his per...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday reminded Americans that his likely Republican opponent in the Novembe...
Jimmy Kimmel roasted the President and everyone else in Washington at The White House Correspondents' Dinner.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After months of casting Republican Mitt Romney as someone who often changes positions for political co...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After spending years searching for a quarterback of the future the success-starved Washington Redskins b...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has reviewed potential threats to the United States before next week's anni...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative justices who hold a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to endorse Arizona's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two more U.S. Secret Service agents are resigning over a Colombia prostitution scandal, the agency sai...
SEATTLE, Wash. - Major League Baseball fans have the opportunity to own a piece of history - but they will be responsible for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel admits he is anxious about headlining his first White House Corres...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former baseball star Roger Clemens wove a web of deceit to cover up his steroid use, going so far as t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's expected wins in five states that hold primary votes on Tuesday will earn him scores...
(Reuters) - Actor Noah Wyle was arrested at a healthcare protest in Washington, D.C. on Monday, following in the footsteps of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New signs of lower U.S. gas prices could give a boost to President Barack Obama's re-election hope...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A clash over immigration law will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, pitting the state of Ari...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Republicans in the House of Representatives expressed confidence on Sunday in the head of t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attorney for some of the Secret Service agents under investigation in a scandal involving prostitu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the fate of healthcare reform in the current election year, a study ...
DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) - Four of the last five survivors of a U.S. World War Two bombing mission over Japan reunited on Wedne...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Junk food may soon be hard to buy at American public schools as the U.S. government readies new rules ...
BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. troops are seen posing with the maimed bodies of suspected Afghan insurgents in photos p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. Secret Service employees under investigation for alleged misconduct with prostitutes in Col...
(Reuters) - Peyton Manning's first game as the Denver Broncos quarterback will be in primetime when they host the Pittsbu...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Discovery made its final voyage on Tuesday: a piggyback jet ride to the...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A parade of naval vessels and square-rigged sailing ships made their way on Tuesday up the Mississipp...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are threatened by rising gasoline prices, propos...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's lead over Mitt Romney has narrowed to 4 percentage points from 11 points ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans shrugged off high gasoline prices in March and spent more strongly than expected, suggesting...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former baseball pitching ace Roger Clemens faces a new trial this week on charges he lied to Congress ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is in a better position to deal with high gasoline prices, Treasury Secretary Timothy...
CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Unprecedented Latin American opposition to U.S. sanctions on Cuba left President Barack Obama...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They are known for their shiny sunglasses, dark suits, and stern gazes.Secret Service agents, the men ...
PYONGYANG/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and emb...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The relentless decline in home prices is nearing an end and prices should rise for the first time in s...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People worldwide are living three years longer than expected on average, pushing up the costs of aging...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic activity kept growing moderately in the late winter months but rising energy prices were...
JACKSONVILLE/SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A special prosecutor in Florida charged neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerm...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As he locks down the Republican nomination for U.S. president, Mitt Romney is framing what looks to be...
By Tom BrownSANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. attorney general said Wednesday there was a "high bar" to bring f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With many students eagerly waiting to find out which college they will be attending in the fall, the U...
By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Obama administration declared it wanted to put suspects involved in the Sept...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With his Republican opponent now almost certain to be Mitt Romney, a multi-millionaire, President Bara...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama criticized Mitt Romney by name this week for embracing a controversial Rep...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All residents of an apartment complex for the elderly in Virginia that was destroyed when a U.S. Navy ...
Tumbling in the polls and under increasing pressure to abandon his White House campaign, Republican Rick Santorum huddled wit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has spent about $17,000 to reimburse the Treasury for frequent...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House was forced on the defensive on Wednesday as it sought to explain controversial remarks...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four suspected co-conspirators were directe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the Supreme Court on Monday, w...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court charged former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters w...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's top Republican called on his party to unite behind leading presidential candidat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has signaled a willingness to accept less-stringent controls on former Taliba...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republicans passed congressman Paul Ryan's deficit-cutting budget plan on Thursday, setting ...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - With his captain restrained and locked out of the cockpit, the co-pilot of JetBlue Flight 191 ...
By Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A national debate over the killing of a black teenager in Florida spilled into the Hou...
By Donna SmithWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday blasted police handling of a racially charged case in wh...
By James Vicini and Joan BiskupicWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul will be ...
By Joan Biskupic and James ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided along ideological lin...
By Joan Biskupic and James ViciniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared prepared to decide the fate...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A psychologist warned Penn State University police in 1998 that football coach Jerry Sandusky's be...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after President Barack Obama signed into law a healthcare overhaul, the Supreme Court on Mon...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage in Kandaha...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul faces its biggest court test next week, capping a leg...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Tuesday announced a new phase in the search to resolve the disappearance of Amelia Earha...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home sales fell in February, but upward revisions to the prior month's pace and the first yearly i...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp opened the first store in its new Evolution Fresh juice bar chain on Monday, its bigge...
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Responding to an international petition, celebrity tweets, and spreading public outrage, the Jus...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be headed for an important victory in Illinois on Tuesda...
TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Robert Bales built a life around a call to arms. A call that emanated from the ashes of the Wo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite a well-deserved reputation for scandals, New Jersey is among the state leaders in the fight ag...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new documentary film about bullying set for theaters this month could come out unrated after objecti...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first round of tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in a small town in Pennsylvania near ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Part of the National Mall near the Washington Monument may be sinking at a faster rate than expected, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the possibility of releasing...
Black Shelton thrilled fans at a concert in Washington by inviting his wife Miranda Lambert to perform with him on stage.The ...
DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, America's basketball fan-in-chief, treated British Prime Minister David ...
Kentucky, Syracuse, North Carolina and Michigan State were given top seeds forthe 2012 NCAA Tournament on Sunday.Kentucky (32...
ABILENE, Kansas (Reuters) - Former President Dwight Eisenhower is hardly mentioned during the Republican campaign for the Whi...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Harvey and Cora Alter decided to move away from Washington, D.C., for their retirement, friends were...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign would like to be focusing its attacks on Democratic President ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican proposal to give a permit to the Keystone XL crude ...
A van late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain once used to drive his heroes The Melvins from gig to gig is up for auction on eBay.c...
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Mitt Romney eked out a close victory in Ohio but failed to land a knockout blow against rival ...
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Mitt Romney notched early wins as he fought to establish his dominance in the race for the Rep...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on a...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Mitt Romney can take a big step toward finishing off chief rival Rick Santorum and seizing command...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Ameri...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney closed in on Rick Santorum in Ohio and picked up a crucial endorsement in Virginia on Sund...
By Scott MalonePORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - The two major U.S. political parties have a responsibility to end the "dysfun...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday rejected a Republican challenge to President Barack Obama's policy on contr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge sided with tobacco companies on Wednesday, ruling that regulations requiring large graphi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Partial remains from some people killed in the September 11 attacks in 2001 ended up in a landfill, ac...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's narrow win in Michigan is unlikely to ease lingering doubts about his candidacy or h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tucked in his left breast-coat pocket where he can pull it out to wave before TV cameras is ammunition...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former District of Columbia police commander whose unit escorted actor Charlie Sheen has said he pla...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Could history repeat itself? That is a question uppermost in the minds of many Americans as they waril...
MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - Mitt Romney is fighting his way back into the driving seat in the Republican presidential race, put...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Danica Patrick is convinced that if "the stars are aligned" she can win the Daytona 500 in h...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The weekend box office title landed securely in Denzel Washington's hands as his thriller, "...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign regularly rips Republican presidential frontrunner M...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Friday passed legislation extending a tax cut for 160 million workers and long-term jobl...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Hamilton moves from story to story, one more outrageous than the next.There is no theme to tie ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, set to expire at the end of this month, would be extended...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One in eight U.S. voter registrations is invalid or markedly inaccurate, the result of an outdated and...
(Reuters) - Catholic bishops, energized by a battle over contraception funding, are planning an aggressive campaign to rally ...
By Matt Spetalnick and Chris BuckleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping o...
By Alister Bull and Laura MacInnisWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Monday for new spending to boost gr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co plans to hire 5,000 U.S. military veterans over the next five years and to invest ...
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, in an abrupt policy shift aimed at quelling an election-year firestorm, announced on Frid...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five big U.S. banks accused of abusive mortgage practices have agreed to a $25 billion government ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will announce a move to accommodate religious organizations on its rule for health ins...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many U.S. Republicans may have growing concerns about their presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, but...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, worried about the influx of money to groups support...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The two boys of a man who blew up his Washington state home, killing himself and his sons, suffered chop ...
(Reuters) - An "intentional" house explosion on Sunday near Tacoma, Washington killed the husband and two sons of a...
By Larry FineINDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - One last elimination game remains for the New York Giants, and coach Tom Coughlin said ...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unempl...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businessman and reality TV personality Donald Trump is endorsing Mitt Romney in the race for the 2012 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businessman and reality TV personality Donald Trump will endorse former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stephen Colbert's U.S. presidential aspirations may not be serious, but his fundraising is. The la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney's lead over rival Newt Gingrich has stretched to 15 percentage poi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid tears, salutes and standing ovations, Representative Gabrielle Giffords submitted her resignation...
A white hearse used to transport President John F. Kennedy's body following his assassination in Dallas sold at auction f...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued an American and a Dane after a shooto...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years was forecast to hit Earth's magnetic field ...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, coming off one of his most subdued debate perform...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to paint h...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will pitch new initiatives on jobs, taxes and housing in an election-year State...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police cannot put a GPS device on a suspect's car to track ...
TAMPA, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating h...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Humbled by a stunning loss in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said on Sunday he would releas...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Representative Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head during a shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, last year...
(Reuters) - After an unusually mild winter across much of the United States, a fast-moving snowstorm struck the Northeast fro...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, co...
WASHINGTON/CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Late-night TV comedian Stephen Colbert is urging his South Carolina fans to...
SEATTLE/PORTLAND (Reuters) - A deadly ice storm and heavy rains swept across the Pacific Northwest on Thursday, leading to fl...
(Reuters) - Some members of the Congress switched sides to oppose antipiracy legislation as protests blanketed the Internet o...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Former Senator Rick Santorum won the January 3 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses by a razor-thin m...
WASHINGTON/CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Obama Administration rejected the Keystone oil pipeline on Wednesday, a move that...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives will resume work next month on a controversial bill aimed at stopping onl...
CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a traditional day of service as well...
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Jon Huntsman suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday,...
(Reuters) - Laura Kaeppeler of Wisconsin won the 2012 Miss America crown on Saturday at a Las Vegas pageant that was updated ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry, scrambling to keep his U.S. presidential bid alive, accused the Obama admin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Caro...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday that he plans a $1.2 trillion increa...
KABUL (Reuters) - A video showing what appear to be American forces urinating on dead Taliban fighters prompted anger in Afgh...
(Reuters) - The symbolic Doomsday Clock calculated by a group of scientists was moved a minute closer to midnight on Tuesday,...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney offered the starkest choice yet between himself and President Ba...
(Reuters) - Jim and Celeste Durkin thought when they began investing six years ago in Illinois state's prepaid college saving...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare spending barely rose in 2010 from record-low recession levels, as high unemployment an...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced an election year shake-up at the White House on Monday, choosing budg...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran announced on Monday it had sentenced a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen to death for spying for the CIA, cre...
CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates stepped up their attacks on rival Mitt Romney in a tele...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment grew solidly last month and the jobless rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.5 percen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military pre...
DES MOINES, Iowa/MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Michele Bachmann was out, Rick Perry was back and Rick Santorum was up...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army special forces engineer arrested for trying to take explosives aboard a U.S. commercial ai...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manufacturing grew at its fastest pace in six months in December, capping a late-year upswing, but a Eur...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Washington Redskins' miserable National Football League season has hardened the resolve of head co...
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax c...
By Mark Hosenball and Samuel P. JacobsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A direct-mail solicitation for Ron Paul's political and investme...
By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush backs Mitt Romney for president, the Housto...
By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - Snowfall in the Rockies and soaking rain in the South brought delays for holiday travelers...
By Lily KuoFORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified files to the WikiLe...
By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits hit a 3-1/2 year low l...
KABUL/NEW YORK (Reuters) - - The U.S. Army has charged eight soldiers deployed to Afghanistan in the death of Private Danny C...
By Benjamin Kang LimBEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last we...
Kanye West threatened to eject hundreds of fans from his concert with Jay-Z on Friday after one member of the crowd began thr...
By Chip BarnetNEW YORK (Reuters) - The population of the United States is growing at its slowest rate in more than 70 years, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a return appearance on the "Late Show with David...
By Alina SelyukhWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The health secretary overruled government scientists and refused to bring the controve...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. motorists surveyed acknowledged few situations in which they would not use a cell phone or t...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates pounced on front-runner Newt Gingrich on Thursday to try to b...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Army intelligence analyst suspected in the biggest leak of classified U.S. documents in history mak...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military officially ended its war in Iraq on Thursday, packing up a military flag at a ceremony ...
(Reuters) - A record low of 51 percent of U.S. adults are married, and Americans are waiting longer than ever to tie the knot...
DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich, buffeted by attacks, gets his chance to fight back on Thursday ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich holds a 10-point lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, but he wo...
BELLEFONTE, Pa (Reuters) - Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on Tuesday abruptly waived hi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday said it will rule for the first time on one of several tough, new state im...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers moved closer to a deal on Monday to fund the government through next year, potentially avoid...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nearly nine years after the United States threw out Saddam Hussein and dissolved his feared security mach...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Parks has been out of work for 21 months and his unemployment benefits will run out at the end ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Surging frontrunner Newt Gingrich fought off heavy attacks in a presidential debate in Iowa on S...
By Dave ClarkeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Thursday beat back Democratic President Barack Obama's pick to hea...
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - A gunman ambushed and killed a campus police officer and was later reported to have been fou...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prolific character actor Harry Morgan, who appeared in more than 100 films but was best known for tele...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Is it time for Mitt Romney to come up with a new plan?For months, the initial frontrunner in the race ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police arrested 62 economic protesters in Washington on Wednesday as they blocked streets and disrupte...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. aviation safety official resigned on Tuesday over a drunken driving charge.Randy Babbitt ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lawyers for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Tuesday to show m...
(Reuters) - More than a third of U.S. shoppers are already done with most of their holiday shopping, a survey showed on Monda...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service on Monday moved forward with plans to end next-day delivery of l...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. aviation safety official, Randy Babbitt, left his job temporarily on Monday following a d...
BONN (Reuters) - The West used an Afghanistan meeting on Monday to signal enduring support for Kabul as allied troops go home...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Obama's aides have persistently tried to paint Republicans as the party of the rich, with mi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Embattled Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said on Friday he will make an announcement ab...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed to boost U.S. efforts to fight AIDS with a new target of providing treatm...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of families collecting cash welfare benefits rose during the longest and deepest economic d...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden has urged Turkey to pass new sanctions against Iran, increasing pressure on Washi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama struck an optimistic note on Wednesday night that lawmakers in Congress could rea...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked U.S. voters on Wednesday to keep believing in the "hope and change&quo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman gave birth in a restroom at Baltimore's airport after arriving on a flight, an airport spokesm...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Britain has evacuated all its diplomatic staff from Iran, Western diplomatic sources told Reuters on Wedne...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney opened fire on surging rival Newt Gingrich on Tuesday,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Herman Cain told aides on Tuesday he would reassess the viability of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators from the Department of Education arrived at Penn State University on Monday to review ho...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday of having a 13-year affair wit...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan ratcheted up pressure on NATO on Monday over a cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani so...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative Barney Frank, who helped to craft the landmark overhaul of financial regulat...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Basketball Association (NBA) and its players have reached a tentative deal on a new collect...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican presidential hopefuls criticized U.S. policy toward Pakistan and called for placing san...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly half of all Americans lack economic security, meaning they live above the federal poverty thres...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional "super committee" on Monday failed to reach a deal on reducing federal gover...
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A 21-year-old man who called President Barack Obama the "devil" and "anti-Christ" ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Budget talks in the Congress were locked in stalemate on Wednesday amid the disclosure of a Democratic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration proposed on Wednesday doubling auto fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police arrested a 21-year old man on Wednesday suspected of shooting at the White House last week, aft...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in Congress said on Tuesday he saw few signs of progress on a deficit-cutting deal, a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide the fate of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief of the Air Force was questioned by lawmakers Thursday over revelations the military's main m...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Speaking on camera for the first time since she was shot in the head in January, U.S. Representative G...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) - Father figure to underprivileged children or serial sexual predator? For ex-Penn State football...
LOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) - Kentucky's Democratic governor won re-election and Mississippi elected the Republican lieutenant g...
A Billy Idol superfan's birthday dream looks set to be finally realised in 2012 after the "White Wedding" rocker to...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Frazier, the relentless slugger who became the heavyweight champion of the world and earned boxing...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain will hold a new conference on Tuesday to confront the la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder will go before a Senate committee on Tuesday where he will likely be aske...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. air travelers can expect full flights over the Thanksgiving holiday even as the weak economy cuts...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans living in poverty reached a record 49.1 million in 2010, according to a new br...
(Reuters) - The Pittsburgh Steelers are out for revenge against the Baltimore Ravens in their AFC North divisional clash on a...
(Reuters) - The United States, Britain and France turned up the pressure on Tehran on Thursday ahead of next week's release o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman who accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment Thursday offere...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth was likely too weak in October to pull down the nation's lofty jobless rate, th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The problem of poverty became more acute in many U.S. neighborhoods in the Midwest and South over the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Herman Cain denounced sexual harassment accusations from the 1990s as a "witch hunt&qu...
(Reuters) - Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iow...
KABUL (Reuters) - The Haqqani network, which Washington has blamed for a series of attacks in Afghanistan, may have been invo...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Ryan Fitzpatrick began to earn his big raise firing two touchdown passes as the Buffalo Bills crushed the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two women employees complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Republican presidential contender He...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The economy grew at its fastest pace in a year in the third quarter as consumers and businesses steppe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off t...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co. is recalling a gas rangetop because of an explosion hazard, the Consumer Product ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Incomes for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled from 1979 to 2007, far outpacing inco...
BAGHPAT, India (Reuters) - The world's 7 billionth person will be born into a population more aware than ever of the challeng...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pitching star Roger Clemens on Tuesday asked a federal judge to make the government pay for some of hi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth got new help on Monday with the government's e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States will fulfill its pledge to pull troops out of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longes...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday backed a measure to help bolster the housing market by making it easier for peo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Social Security retirement benefits for about 55 million people will go up by 3.6 percent next year, t...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City policeman has been docked more than a third of his vacation time after he used pepper sp...
(Reuters) - Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, a noted master of baseball detail, said a lack of first-hand knowledge of the Te...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For decades, American workers and their machines advanced in tandem. As companies invested in technolo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave a partisan-tinged speech to dedicate a new memorial to Martin Luther King ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration denied a news report on Saturday it had made a final decision to pull almost ...
(Reuters) - The Detroit Lions suffered their first defeat of the National Football League season on Sunday, their 25-19 loss ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney leads the field vying for the Republican presidential nomination, but fewer than one in fo...
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) - The United States accused Iran of backing an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters say the rich are getting richer while average Americans suffer, but the grou...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate defeated President Barack Obama's job-creation package on Tuesday in a sign that Washington...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department late on Tuesday issued a worldwide travel alert for U.S. citizens, warning of the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will back Mitt Romney in the U.S. presidential race on Tuesday, a R...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama could create millions of jobs by attracting more foreign capital to the United ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare supplemental health plans, popular among politically powerful retirees, could come under the ...
DALLAS (Reuters) - An unapologetic Pastor Robert Jeffress, who created a stir for calling Mormonism a "cult" at a p...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment likely grew only modestly in September, with hiring too weak to pull down a lofty jobless r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Gabrielle Giffords gave her astronaut husband a medal at his retirement ceremony on Thu...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protests against corporate greed and economic inequality spread across America on Thursday and found unl...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of s...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators converged on New York's financial district on Wednesday, the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sarah Palin said on Wednesday that she will not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is prepared to take further steps to help an economy that is "close to falter...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less than a quarter of wealthy Americans support raising taxes on households making $250,000 or mo...
(Reuters) - The Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that a traditional Internet download of sound recording does not c...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's job-creation package effectively fell to pieces on Monday as a top Republican...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Detroit Lions erased a 24-point deficit to stun the Dallas Cowboys 34-30 Sunday and join the Green B...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than three years after the financial crisis struck, the economy remains stuck in a consumer debt tr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to i...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States must stop blaming Islamabad for regional instability, Pakistan's prime minister told ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged students on Wednesday to pursue learning after high school to brighten th...
BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Wednesday arrested and charged a Massachusetts man with plotting to damage or destroy ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Either Iran could build a nuclear bomb in a matter of months or it is unlikely to get such a weapon any ti...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan, facing a crisis in relations with the United States, appears to be seeking more support from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poverty rates increased in almost all U.S. states and the District of Columbia over the course of the ...
(Reuters) - A banged-up Dallas offense mustered a late game-winning drive to help the Cowboys grind out an 18-16 win over NFC...
NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Country duo Burns & Poe are not taking today's high unemployment and lack of government action sitting ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will have to consider all options "including defending our troops" in conf...
ATHERTON, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama harshly criticized Republican opponents on Sunday as he began a West ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New student enrollment at U.S. graduate schools fell in 2010 for the first time since the autumn of 20...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A pair of the iconic ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" is going up for auction with...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no short cut to Middle East ...
JACKSON, Georgia (Reuters) - The state of Georgia executed convicted murderer Troy Davis on Wednesday in a case that drew int...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Two U.S. citizens sentenced in Iran to eight years' jail for spying flew out of the country on Wednesday a...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to urge him to d...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. government grapples to find ways to trim the bloated federal deficit, a new report suggest...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama laid out a $3.6 trillion plan on Monday to cut budget deficits partly by ra...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Violent crime in the United States dropped sharply in 2010 for the fourth straight year, but the murde...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The reigning Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers erased a 13-point deficit to beat the Carolina Panthe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out a plan on Monday to cut the U.S. deficit, striking a populist tone...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Marine who saved 36 of his comrades' lives during an ambush in Afghanistan was awarded the Medal of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major progress is being made in a crackdown on international tax evasion, the U.S. Internal Revenue Se...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. offshore drilling regulator could issue sanctions as early as next week against BP and the ma...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Two U.S. citizens convicted of spying in Iran will be freed soon after Iraqi President Jalal Talabani nego...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republicans won an upset victory in a Democratic stronghold in New York on Tuesday in a special House of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The results of a pivotal federal U.S. probe of last year's massive BP oil spill could be released as e...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA inspector general is reviewing the spy agency's ties with the New York Police Department after...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last year, the gover...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that two American men arrested near Iran's border wi...
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Family members witnessed the burial on Monday of unidentified human remains recovered at the crash sit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Republicans not to play "political games" with his jobs pla...
Kings of Leon star Jared Followill is embracing his Welsh roots after discovering his ancestors were British.The rocker used ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama picked up where his predecessor George W. Bush left off in the war against Isla...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Children yearned for lost parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the hard stone bearin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Reuters reporters traveled with George W. Bush on September 11, 2001 on what began as a feel-good ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States was stronger 10 years after the September 11...
SHANKSVILLE, PA (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush on Saturday promised that the nation would never forget the heroi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The attacks of September 11, 2001 changed life in the United States forever, but 10 years after the deva...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's core leadership is badly wounded and almost certainly incapable of mounting another attack ...
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A massive blackout caused by "human failure" left nearly 5 million people without power in pa...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York police amassed a display of force on Friday including checkpoints that snarled traff...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seeking to rescue the troubled U.S. economy and his own prospects for re-elect...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday raised the alert level at military bases, most of them domestic, ahead of th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, facing waning confidence among Americans in his economic stewardship, plans so...
ANNAPOLIS, Md (Reuters) - While there were hundreds of human heroes in the days following the September 11 attacks, there wer...
COMBAT OUTPOST PASHMUL SOUTH, Afghanistan/NORAK, Pakistan, (Reuters)- New Yorker Danny Sjursen's Afghanistan war ought to be ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tourists flock to Times Square for the bright lights and Broadway shows. There they find another spectac...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Curators are making hard choices at the museum memorializing the September 11, 2001 attacks at the site ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz called on Americans on Tuesday to deluge U.S. lawmakers...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are sharply divided on issues from race to religion, often along generational and partisan l...
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Florida struggled with a third day of severe weather on Monday wit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Manufacturing unexpectedly grew in August and fewer Americans filed new claims for jobless aid last we...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging confidence discouraged already skittish b...
PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Republicans not to play politics with federal disaste...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged to target fiscal reforms to curb the country's huge public d...
PATERSON, N.J./BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) - Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devast...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Socialists are distancing themselves from Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the ex-IMF chief, once their b...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir revives the fierce battles over U.S. national security ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday agreed to unveil new jobs proposals in an address to Congress on S...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department made a bold move when it sued to block AT&T Inc's $39 billion acqu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks said its website had been the target of a cyber attack late on Tuesday as it proceeded with ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Actress and environmental activist Daryl Hannah was briefly arrested outside the White House on Tuesda...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont and New Jersey struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane I...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan still had no confirmation on Monday that al Qaeda's deputy chief had been kil...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer spending rose at its fastest pace in five months in July, supporting views the economy was no...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City was slowly getting back to business as usual on Monday after Hurricane Irene but hundreds ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Libyan convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland has been fo...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. eastern seaboard on Saturday as a weakening but...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Obama administration official says al-Qaida No. 2 leader, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been kil...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan rebels said they were sending in special forces units in their hunt for fugitive strongman Muammar...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. airlines have cut at least 1,000 flights and are moving airplanes out of the anticipated path of Hu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disasters at a coal mine in West Virginia and aboard an oil rig operated by British Petroleum in the G...
NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including the capital and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney signed a secret resignation letter shortly after taking office in 20...
NASSAU (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Irene battered the Bahamas on Wednesday on a track to the North Carolina coast that for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The earthquake that shook much of the East Coast cracked one of the stones at the top of the Washingto...
NASSAU (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene looked set to become a major storm on Wednesday as it roared up from the Caribbean on a pa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Washington Redskins football player Albert Haynesworth pleaded no contest on Monday to an assau...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Martin Luther King Jr stood 30 feet tall on the National Mall as a memorial to him was unveiled on Mon...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Authorities arrested dozens of people on Sunday protesting outside the White House against a proposed &...
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead six protesters on Friday despite President Bashar al-Assad's pledge that his milita...
BEIJING (Reuters) - As Vice President Joe Biden built trust with China in Beijing's corridors of power, goodwill between the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Approval of President Barack Obama's handling of the U.S. economy has fallen to a new low of 26 percen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Body armor worth $2.5 billion that the Department of Defense's Inspector General found had been im...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale prices outside of food and fuel rose at the fastest pace in six months in July as costs...
ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels launched an assault on an oil refinery on Wednesday to drive the last remaining troo...
PEOSTA, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to turn voter anger over the economy toward Republicans in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is examining documents charting more than $500,000 in payments made by a Caribbean soccer ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Security officers at a U.S. courthouse are under investigation for receiving baseballs autographed by ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decade after the 9/11 attacks, a "lone wolf terrorist" like the shooter in Norway now pres...
LOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) - A man wanted in Australia over accusations he strapped a fake bomb to the neck of a teenage girl a...
DECORAH, Iowa (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce fresh steps to boost rural hiring on the second day...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty became the first major casualty in the marathon presidential ca...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service would eliminate about 220,000 full-time jobs and shutter about 300 processing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Concerns about S&P's downgrading of the U.S. credit rating and the resulting global stock sell-off are...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican lawmaker would not rule out tax increases on Thursday if they could boost economi...
SEOUL (Reuters) - The rival Koreas traded blame on Thursday for a brief military exchange at a tense maritime border as the U...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Natural gas drillers should reveal all chemicals they use in the drilling technique called "frack...
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Republicans narrowly retained their majority in the Wisconsin state Senate on Tuesday, staving off a st...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans by a large majority believe the United States is on the wrong track and nearly half think th...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures fell on Wednesday after a sharp snap-back rally in the last session as investor fear...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rick Perry has been widely touted as a Republican presidential candidate who could appeal Tea Party vote...
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday his forces would continue to pursue "terrorist groups...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday will finalize the first ever fuel efficiency and emissions standar...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - America is on the fritz.From Times Square to St. Petersburg, Florida, and Portland, Oregon, people are t...
KABUL (Reuters) - Foreign troops in Afghanistan do not yet know what caused a deadly helicopter crash two days ago and on Mon...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's repeated a warning on Monday it could downgrade the United States before 2013 if ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders struck a deal on Thursday to resolve a partisan dispute and end a partial shutdo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disapproval of Congress rose to an all-time high after weeks of rancorous partisan battles over raisin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States stepped back from the brink of default on Tuesday but congressional approval of a la...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wild horses on the vast rangelands of Wyoming can continue to roam free, for now, after the U.S. gover...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama suffered a defeat in the battle over raising the U.S. debt limit that may have ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States had its triple-A rating confirmed by two key ratings agencies on Tuesday after Washing...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Any agreement for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal would requi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tea Party conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts fede...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they're hot stuff: prove it by work...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday sued to block enforcement of Alabama's new immigration law, widely ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With four days remaining until the United States hits its debt limit, President Barack Obama on Friday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 36 years later, the secret grand jury testimony of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and t...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cutting the U.S. deficit by some $4 trillion over 10 years would be a good start, but more savings w...
