U.S. and Pakistan are trying to bandage their relationship by forging a new joint intelligence team to go after top terrorism suspects. It's one of a host of confidence-building measures meant ...

Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is "testing the waters" for a presidential run. He becomes the first Republican to come as close as possible to openly challenging President ...

Washington — A few days before Christmas, former Vice President Dick Cheney ended a self-imposed sabbatical from partisan politics to headline a fund-raiser for Maria Cino, a party operative and ...

The new speaker of the House, John Boehner, promised a new era of transparency in lawmaking on Wednesday, but he also pledged to aggressively push forward the conservative agenda that ...

The Obama administration reportedly has developed a plan to begin transferring security in some areas of Afghanistan to the country's forces over the next 18 to 24 months, with agoal ...

While President Obama touts the new health care law everywhere he goes, some members of his party are saying just the opposite in re-election ads, making sure their constituents ...

Obama is well known for big speeches, not small talk. But in recent weeks. The president has turned on the charm with world leaders, trying to create warm ...

From Washington, the Pentagon reversed its ban on a Miami Herald reporter from covering military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba  and  the reporter can return to the naval ...

Young Americans might not get full Social Security retirement benefits until they reach age 70 if some trial balloons that prominent lawmakers of both parties are floating become ...