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Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson Jr. and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke faced the firing line at the House Financial Services Committee. The economic turmoil upends presidential politics.

The Christian counseling clinic started by Rep.

New committee member Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) asks what the State Department can do to bolster its role in international economics. Clinton: Obviously

Another Texas anti-abortion rights group is stirring up controversy in the Northeast with marketing materials targeting African-Americans. In late February, a

Stories like these, whenever they surface, are bad news for mainstream conservatives trying to use this energy in a less insane manner. A group that calls

Gallup’s annual, open-ended poll of the most admired Americans finds President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on top. Obama, whom 30

While a cooperative agreement between the U.S. departments of agriculture and labor will provide some opportunities for rural workers, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said by phone Thursday that the effort won’t necessarily be a replacement for Iowa Workforce Development offices scheduled for closure

Last month, Onyango Obama, half-brother to the President Obama’s father, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and then held by authorities due to an

Tomorrow, the House Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the oil pipeline break that spilled about 1 million gallons of oil into a tributary of the

Title XIV of H.R. 5136, the House bill authorizing next year’s Defense Department money, doesn’t look like it carries a major legacy item for President Obama.

Political pop quiz: What could be more important in this race than that combative, buzz-driving VP debate? Well, the new job loss figures are in. For the

It would be premature to label Colorado’s Fourth District one of the nation’s swing districts, but that could change as a result of the 2012 election season. A court will decide the new outline of the district next month but the district is undergoing a more profound transition. It is becoming the thing Iowa is supposed to be: A moderately conservative middle-American political testing ground, where unaffiliated independents make up roughly a third of the voters, where the aging still-mostly-white population is increasingly ethnically mixed and where high-tech and R&D industries are replacing manufacturing and farming as the main drivers of the economy.

James Blunt might have prevented World War III. Facebook kills Gmail (maybe) with a new email service. John McCain finds a new reason to oppose repealing

I don’t have the actual document yet, but here’s the White House’s just-released summary of the executive order on interrogations. Executive Order revokes

The Treasury Department’s report on the progress -- or lack of it -- among servicers doing loan modifications makes it seem like the Obama administration is

So hinted Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who told a crowd gathered this week for an annual meeting of the American Hospital Association that the House might

Ah, Alberto Gonzales. After the then-Attorney General presented a slippery account to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2007 of, among other subjects, the

Two weeks after moving next door to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boise, Idaho, Stanton Healthcare, an anti-abortion center for women with unexpected

Internet junkies and wonks alike may have jumped the gun in looking forward to the new online transparency hyped by House members.

BP CEO Tony Hayward will receive $930,000 when he steps aside as the head of the company, the BBC reported today. According to the BBC: BP chief executive