Rep. Chet Edwards, an imperiled Democrat deep in the heart of Republican territory, finds exiting American Legion Post No.

It's been three years since Scott Eckersley was fired after pointing out that his then-boss, former Gov.

A veteran Democratic Texas congresswoman who admitted she awarded Black Caucus Foundation scholarships to relatives and the children of a top aide has repaid the organization.

Outspoken former Democratic congressman Jim Traficant, who served time in federal prison for corruption, has fought his way back onto the Nov.

A man upset with the Discovery Channel's environmental programming took several people hostage at the company's headquarters Wednesday, officials said.

The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in 20 years as substantially fewer undocumented workers from Mexico, Latin America and elsewhere are crossing the border in search of jobs, an independent research group says.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that while the United States is no longer at war in Iraq, history will judge whether the fight was worth it.

The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York said the fight is over more than "a piece of real estate" and could shape the future of Muslim relations in America.

Updated 7:45p.m. ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sen. Lisa Murkowski was booted from office in the Republican primary Tuesday by a little-known conservative lawyer in arguably the biggest political upset of the year.

Below are the remarks of President Obama's speech from the Oval Office on the change in mission of the Iraq War on Aug.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's daughter Caroline is likely to get her shoplifting case dismissed with a day of community service after a judge today accepted an offer to resolve it.

The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year, a top official said on Monday.

Americans with the strongest opinions about the country's most divisive issues are largely unhappy with how President Barack Obama is handling them, an ominous sign for Democrats hoping to retain control of Congress in the fall elections.

As President Barack Obama prepares to officially end the lengthy and divisive U.S. combat operation in Iraq, he'll personally thank some of the soldiers who fought there for their service to a mission he forcefully opposed from the start.

Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says he cannot foresee a circumstance in which the United States would have to send combat troops back to Iraq.

The bear that recently killed a caretaker in a Cleveland suburb was the latest example of animal violence in a state that has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them.

The developer behind an Islamic cultural center and mosque planned near ground zero says it never occurred to him that building it near the site of the Sept.

As political newcomer Reshma Saujani takes on Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary, voters will face competing visions of financial reform in an era when anger against Wall Street excesses and federal bailouts run deep.

Roadside bombs killed seven American troopers on Monday a ' including five in a single blast in Kandahar a ' raising to more than a dozen the number who have died in the last three days.

Vice President Joe Biden returned to Iraq Monday to mark this week's formal end to U.S. combat operations and push the country's leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate blocking formation of a new government.