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Husband: Giffords satisfied with Loughner plea
TUCSON, Ariz. — For the legal team defending the suspect in a deadly Tucson mass shooting, reaching a plea deal was just one step. Convincing a judge that Jared Lee Loughner is competent enough to...
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Romney: Obama undermining welfare reform
Republican challenger Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President Obama is "encouraging a culture of dependency" by gutting the work requirement in the landmark federal welfare reform law, and his campaign...
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HURT: The improbable reign of Harry Reid, mumbling gangster
ANALYSIS/OPINION: It is hard to recall fully today what a bleak and desolate year 2004 was for Democrats. Despite mounting American casualties in an increasingly unpopular war, Democrats failed to...
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Obama signs bill requiring him to detail budget cuts
With as little fanfare as possible, President Obama signed legislation Tuesday requiring him to reveal to Congress within the next 30 days exactly where he would slash defense and domestic spending...
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Akin, Hoekstra win GOP Senate primaries
Rep. W. Todd Akin in Missouri and former Rep. Pete Hoekstra in Michigan emerged from crowded primary fields Tuesday night to capture the Republican nominations to take on two embattled Democratic...
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Senators ask China to crack down on fake U.S. driver’s licenses
A bipartisan quartet of senators has called on the Chinese government to investigate companies in that nation that are producing high-quality counterfeit American driver's licenses, saying the practice...
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Inside the Beltway: Veep madness
Wide-eyed and salivating, hundreds of journalists dream of being the chosen one who breaks the news of Mitt Romney's choice for a running mate, even before word goes out on his campaign's fancy new...
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Lieberman rips Romney and Obama for high negativity in the campaign
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman slammed the Obama and Romney campaigns Tuesday for engaging in what he considers record-high negativity during this year's presidential race. Mr. Lieberman, an...
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Wind power at forefront of Reid’s green-energy conference
LAS VEGAS — The politics of renewable energy is on the agenda Tuesday in battleground Nevada, where Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is hosting a fifth annual green-energy conference at a...
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Work getting done on Senate floor — literally
Finally some work is happening on the Senate floor, only in this case it's literal work, not the legislative kind that's been sorely missing in recent months. With senators on a five-week summer...
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Inside Politics: Reid goes green at Vegas resort
LAS VEGAS — The politics of renewable energy is heading the agenda in battleground Nevada, where Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is hosting a fifth annual green-energy conference at a Las...
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Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants
Immigrants lag behind native-born Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who have been in the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies,...
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Veteran of 1990s welfare shift faults both sides in current clash
A former senior House GOP aide who helped write the landmark welfare-to-work laws in the 1990s challenged Mitt Romney's assertion that President Obama's wants to weaken work requirements for welfare...
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Anti-Obama Catholics want dinner invitation rescinded
Catholics opposed to President Obama attending the annual Alfred E. Smith charity dinner in New York have started an online petition urging Cardinal Timothy Dolan to withdraw his invitation to the...
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Judges admit they goofed on taxpayer-funded Hawaii conference
Under fire from prominent Senate Republicans, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says that, looking back, they probably made a bad decision when they scheduled a judges' meeting,...
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IRS told employees to ignore potential fraud in program used by immigrants
IRS supervisors ignored employees who tried to warn agency higher-ups of fraud in a program designed to collect taxes from immigrants, resulting in the agency paying out potentially bogus refunds,...
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Martin Amis: Romney looks 'crazed with power'
Martin Amis is a decidedly reluctant interviewee, a publicist at Knopf had warned. Over the course of an hour and a half, however, the British novelist turns out to be exceedingly good company:...
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U.S. gives military aid to nations with child soldiers
As the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama co-sponsored a bill to restrict the U.S. government's military support of countries that use children as soldiers. But President Obama has waived those...
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Inside the Beltway: The Palin mystery
There are nine governors and former governors set to entertain the Grand Old Party when the Republican National Convention gets rolling in Tampa, Fla. a mere 17 days from now. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah...
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Voters vs. cash: Races could be turned by out-of-state money
Judging by the fundraising, one might think Republican Nancy Jacobs has no chance in her bid for a House seat representing parts of Anne Arundel County. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, a five-term...
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