The Obama administration formally inaugurated its foray into Middle East peacemaking on Thursday, bringing together the Israeli and Palestinian leaders for face-to-face talks and securing their ...
With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars - to spur hiring and ...
With the economy downshifting into first gear and their poll numbers sagging, the White House and Democratic congressional leaders are desperate for an economic and political game-changer as they ...
In one of the first detailed insider accounts by a member of President Obama's team, a chief architect of the federal bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler has penned a 300-plus page description ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered an olive branch to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as peace talks began in Washington yesterday. Key stumbling blocks include the dismantling of ...
Attorney-general hopeful Sean Coffey is scared that a secret from deep in his past will blow his chance to get the job. "This may cost me the Democratic nomination: I have never used drugs," he joked ...
The government's "cash for clunkers" program boosted auto sales by 360,000 during the two months it was in place, according to a new study. But in the seven months that followed, sales were down by ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Airstrikes by NATO forces that killed 12 people on Thursday in northern Afghanistan have produced sharply conflicting accounts as to whether the attacks hit a team of election ...
THE ISSUE: Comparing the costs of the federal economic-stimulus plan and those of the Iraq war. *** The chart that accompanies your fine editorial, "Obama's Spending Spree" (Aug. 30), disproves, once ...
There's been a lot of talk about Bush nostalgia lately. At Martha's Vineyard, the Obama-bilia wasn't moving like it was during the Obamas' previous visit there. The big seller was a T-shirt depicting ...