The House's top investigator said Monday that he's worried about the administration's plans to shift money around to implement President Obama's new health law.

Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House oversight committee, has a host of questions for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who last week said ...

A handful of Republicans on Capitol Hill on Monday ramped up their push to have Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev denied a defense attorney and treated as an "enemy combatant" in the name of national security.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" he's ...

Sen. Rand Paul said Monday that the immigration reform debate should be halted until Congress first understands what went wrong in Boston, where two brothers who came to the U.S. legally under the asylum program have been accused of the deadly bombings at last week's marathon.

The Kentucky Republican had ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing forward a bill to allow states to tax purchases that are made online, with one vote set for Monday evening.

The Hill reported that Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, has filed to end talk on the bill, dubbed the Marketplace Fairness Act because it ...

Left-leaning New York Times' columnist Maureen Dowd has jumped ideological camp and ripped into President Obama, calling him out for what she characterizes as leadership failures in the gun control debate.

The president "still has not learned how to govern," she said, in a Sunday piece reported by Politico.

He ...

With the Boston Marathon bombing suspects no longer threats to the American public, focus is turning quickly to how such an attack could have happened and whether the Chechen Muslim brothers had ties to al Qaeda or other global jihadist movements.

But there is another, more politically contentious question: Should ...

Behold, some Earth Day news of a different sort. Recall that while in office, President George W. Bush relished his time outdoors in the Lone Star State, and he drew much derision from the liberal press for his habit of clearing out brush on his ranch, by hand, the old-fashioned ...

A Bush-era rule that forbids some federal AIDS money to go to groups unless they "explicitly" oppose prostitution and sex trafficking is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.

The "prostitution pledge" was added to the law that established the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to ensure ...

Howard Phillips was a magnificent anomaly in the worlds of politics and personal life.

During his 72 years, he went from being a Harvard-educated, unsuccessful Jewish Democratic candidate for public office to an evangelical Protestant Republican who founded the Conservative Caucus and led a decades-long crusade to end the government ...

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Moore's Law states that computer processors double in complexity and speed every two years.

A similar law applies to news: Call it the Law of More.

Seconds after Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonated explosives at the Boston Marathon on April 15, the media went into hyperdrive but this time, ...

Chevron, Boeing and other companies whose fortunes are heavily dependent on government action or inaction were among the companies that gave $23 million to President Obama for his inauguration party, with the politician who ordinarily demonizes corporate money relying primarily on such sources, rather than individuals, for the $44 million ...

The authors of the Senate immigration bill are mounting a campaign to try to make sure the Boston Marathon bombings last week don't derail their push to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, saying the problems lie more with the FBI than with legal immigration.

In the wake of the revelation ...

Expanded background-checks legislation may have been stopped in its tracks, but gun control advocates — led by the families of the Newtown, Conn., victims — are vowing to fight on.

Three of those victims’ family members on Sunday morning promised to remain a vocal, highly visible part of the national ...

The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security said Sunday he thinks 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers suspected in last week's Boston Marathon bombing, may have been trained by a terrorist organization in Chechnya.

"I personally believe that this man received training when he was over ...

Authorities still are trying to pinpoint the motives behind the Boston Marathon bombings, but a leading GOP congressman pulled no punches on Sunday and urged the FBI to focus on threats from within the Muslim community.

"Ninety-nine percent of Muslims are outstanding Americans, but the fact is, that's where the ...

One of the main architects of the failed Senate legislation to expand gun background checks is optimistic he can turn critics into allies including the National Rifle Association.

Sen. Joe Manchin III, the West Virginia Democrat who co-sponsored the proposal with Pennsylvania's GOP Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, said he repeatedly ...

Former Florida Rep. Allen West issued a scathing statement on his Facebook page Friday, in response to the ongoing manhunt for one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.

"Let me be very clear. The terrorist attack in Boston and evolving events indicate we have a domestic radical Islamic ...

The uncle of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing said Friday that they were born in Kyrgyzstan and came to the U.S. in 2003 on claims of asylum — news that's already beginning to reverberate in the immigration debate just beginning on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Steve King, Iowa ...

China and other Asian nations have been moving aggressively to exploit the commercial potential of the Arctic as more of the region becomes accessible for development and shipping in the increasingly ice-free summer, while the U.S. appears to be dragging its feet, Icelandic President Olafur R. Grimsson told editors and ...

The Obama administration has set records for deportations, but the types of immigrants it is kicking out of the country has changed dramatically over the past four years, according to numbers the Homeland Security Department has had to turn over as part of a pending court case.

Records show that ...