By Josh Meyer Reporting from Washington -- Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey was rushed to the hospital Thursday night after collapsing at the lectern and losing consciousness during a speech on the Justice Department's war on terrorism, ...
By Peter Finn and Walter Pincus The drive for dwindling resources, including energy and water, combined with the spread of nuclear weapons technology could make large swaths of the globe ripe for regional conflicts, some of them potentially devastating ...
By Zachary A. Goldfarb Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced yesterday that they are temporarily suspending foreclosures and evictions during the holiday season in an effort to keep people from losing their homes.
By PETER BAKER and HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON - Democratic leaders in the Senate are prepared to give Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton a still-undefined leadership role there if she does not become Barack Obama’s secretary of state, Democratic officials ...
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS AP With that, bailout-fatigued lawmakers closed up shop for Thanksgiving, leaving the nation's once-mighty and now foundering car companies scrambling like scolded schoolchildren to finish an overdue assignment in time to ...
By Cristina Corbin With only 206 votes out of 2.9 million total ballots separating Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota from his Democratic opponent Al Franken, every vote counts -- including the elusive 32 absentee ballots first reported to be ...
By EJ Dionne Jr. While the nation's capital obsesses over Barack Obama's next Cabinet pick, the president-elect's lieutenants are engaged with what may be a more important long-term issue: What will become of Obama's vast grass-roots network?
By DAVID IVANOVICH and STEWART POWELL WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON California Democrat Henry Waxman, a longtime critic of the oil industry and a fierce advocate for climate change legislation, will soon take the gavel at the powerful House Energy and ...
BY STEPHANIE GASKELL Barack Obama kickes the habit on his way to the White House, but dealing with ornery foreign dictators and a wheezing economy could tempt him to light up again.
By MANOHLA DARGIS It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO - When the California Supreme Court begins weighing arguments over same-sex marriage - again - in December, some 18000 such marriages could hang in the balance.
By Mark McDonald HONG KONG: In China's first official acknowledgment of the scope of children's deaths in the massive Sichuan earthquake in May, a senior government official said Friday that more than 19000 children had perished.
By Bill Faries and Shamim Adam Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations will push for more trade accords when they meet this weekend, seeking to stem any turn toward protectionism amid the worst financial crisis since the Great ...
By Mark Thompson / Washington Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 Conventional wisdom in Washington holds that President-elect Barack Obama will soon invite current Defense Secretary Robert Gates to extend his stay in the Pentagon.
By Juliet Eilperin The Bush administration is finalizing changes to the Endangered Species Act that would ensure that federal agencies would not have to take global warming into account when assessing risks to imperiled plants and animals.
SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- Airport security lines have always been difficult for Leslie Heller and her family. Passengers use the TSA Family Line at San Francisco Airport Thursday.
By Howard Lesser After seven years in detention, five of six Algerian terror suspects at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been ordered freed by a federal district judge.
By BENJAMIN WEISER A federal jury in Manhattan convicted an arms dealer and one of his associates on Thursday in a plot to sell millions of dollars in weapons that, they were told, would be used to kill Americans.
By Mike Dorning | Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker, who led the prolific fundraising that helped power Barack Obama's presidential campaign, said Thursday that she had taken herself out of the running for an appointment ...
RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - A Metrolink commuter train sideswiped a freight train Thursday, causing no serious injuries but bringing back still-vivid memories of a deadly train wreck in the region just two months ago.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and was taken to a hospital. The Department of Justice said he was conscious but would be kept overnight.
An aide to Barack Obama's transition team says the president-elect is on track to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving.
Verizon employees snuck a peek at President-elect Barack Obama's old cell phone records and will be reprimanded accordingly, the company said late Thursday.
A former Army cook convicted of multiple rapes and murders is set to die next month in what would be the U.S. military's first execution in nearly 50 years.
Mexican emigration has dropped 42 percent over the last two years, the government said Thursday. America has become less appealing amid a sour economy and tougher action against illegal migrants.
At least 26 severely malnourished children have died in recent days in Haiti, and aid groups fear many more deaths unless more help comes quickly to this impoverished Caribbean country.
A look at the political reasoning behind the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to give the Big Three auto makers another shot at a $25 billion loan.
NYT: The business holdings and connections that made Penny Pritzker a key to the Obama presidential campaigns fundraising may have kept her from a job as commerce secretary.
ABC has decided against giving full-season orders to Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone, but is not officially saying that the struggling shows are canceled.
As allergies to peanuts, milk, eggs and gluten have risen, a cult-like following has emerged around the EpiPen, a single-shot of medication that can halt a potentially deadly reaction.
After an eight-month investigation, the Humane Society of the United States accused Petland, the national pet store chain, of selling dogs bred under appalling conditions.
