President Barack Obama said Tuesday U.S. policy makers should be able to reach a bipartisan consensus on high-profile issues such as health care and energy,

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mocked Sarah Palin’s much publicized use of notes written on her hands at the daily White House press briefing

A billboard featuring a picture of former U.S. president George W. Bush and the tagline 'Miss me yet?' left residents of Minnesota wondering what it meant and

President Obama held a meeting at the White House Tuesday with Democrat and Republican congressional leaders, saying that he wanted Congress to work together

A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was

The Obama administration was expected to unveil a new plan this week to bring healthier school lunches to children across the U.S.

Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, telling a gathering of "tea

Tea Party organizers will Friday propose the closest thing yet to a national organizing strategy for the upcoming 2010 midterm elections at a press conference

Republican Scott Brown is poised to take his Senate seat a week earlier than he planned, ending the Democrats' supermajority in just enough time to block

President Barack Obama said Thursday he prays lawmakers can restore a "spirit of civility" to the nation's capital.

For the first time, government programs next year will account for more than half of all U.S. health care spending, federal actuaries predict, as the weak

 “Game Change” authors, Time Magazine editor Mark Halperin and New York Magazine Columnist John Heilemann used their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain

The first National Tea Party Convention is slated for the end of this week, but several big names and events have cancelled after questions rose about the high

Former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin posted a note on her Facebook page late Monday calling for President Obama

Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), 77, is in intensive care in a hospital near Washington D.C. after undergoing gall bladder surgery last week, Politico reported

President Barack Obama is promoting an idea to free up more cash for smaller businesses that are hurting in the economic downturn.

Concert tickets to Billy Joel, a taping of the "The George Lopez Show," hotel stays and expensive meals are among the gifts that 31 California lawmakers

The Republican National Committee has narrowed its list of potential cities to host the 2012 Republican National Convention down to three final contenders, Fox

President Barack Obama proposed Monday a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 that will add fuel to the debate over the size and scope of government. The plan

President Barack Obama Friday chided Republicans for portraying his health reform plan as a "Bolshevik plot" and for saying he wanted to do "crazy stuff that

Two conservative lawmakers have backed out of speaking engagements at next week's National Tea Party Convention, the latest trouble for the gathering of tea

President Barack Obama is taking another swing at offering tax credits to companies that hire new workers, a plan that drew a cool reception from Congress last

In his first State of the Union, President Barack Obama laid out his vision for his country in a speech that focused primarily on the economy and the bitter

Republicans late Wednesday hit back at Barack Obama following his first State of the Union speech, saying the U.S. President's call for a three-year freeze on

Declaring "I don't quit,"' an embattled President Barack Obama vowed in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to make job growth his topmost

Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) on Wednesday will give the first live response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech via Facebook.

Congressional leaders are taking health care legislation off the fast track as rank-and-file Democrats, wary of unhappy midterm election voters, look to

A Santa Clarita councilman was under fire at a council meeting Tuesday night for comments he made at a Minutemen rally. Several immigrant rights advocates are

The Senate has rejected a plan backed by President Barack Obama to create a bipartisan task force to tackle the deficit this year.

President Barack Obama offered help for people struggling to pay bills and care for their families, appealing to a middle-class he says has been "under assault

Former presidential candidate John Edwards made a graphic sex tape with his mistress, according to a report.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs previewed President Obama's State of the Union Address, to be delivered Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET, in which the president

President Obama vowed not to walk away from health care reform Friday, but conceded the process to get the legislation passed had "run into a bit of a buzz

Facing a potentially disastrous political shift, President Barack Obama tried Thursday to begin resetting his wounded presidency with a one-two-three populist

Though reeling from a political body blow, House Democrats rejected the quickest fix to their health care dilemma Thursday and signaled that any agreement on

A key legislative committee in California revived a bill Thursday to create a government-run health care system in the nation's most populous state, two days

President Barack Obama assailed on Thursday the Supreme Court's decision to strike down limits on corporate spending, promising a "forceful response" to the

Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown, whose election was heralded as a possible death knell for the Democrats' health care overhaul, said Thursday he was

The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she lacks the votes to push the Senate's sweeping health overhaul bill through the House, a potentially devastating blow to President Barack Obama's

President Barack Obama admitted on Wednesday he had neglected his direct connection to the American people, after a stunning Republican election win shifted

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislators said they're optimistic the federal government will help California bridge a projected $20 billion

Sarah Palin will join John McCain on the campaign trail in Arizona this spring, according to a note posted on the former Alaska governor’s Facebook page

Sarah Palin and John McCain will be together again. McCain's former running mate in his 2008 presidential bid will join him in Arizona in March to help him

White House gate crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi have invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in an appearance before Congress. 

Senator-elect Scott Brown called his daughters "available" in an awkward moment that stood out during his victory speech.

Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley.

Health care stocks were gaining Tuesday morning on the prospects that a Republican could win control of the Senate seat formerly held by the late Edward

President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $1.35 billion to extend an education grant program for states.

Underdog Scott Brown widened his lead over Democrat Martha Coakley ahead of Tuesday's battle for the late Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, according to

Republican California gubernatorial hopeful Steve Poizner says he's won the backing of former California Gov. George Deukmejian.

Democrat Martha Coakley rolled out an eleventh-hour TV ad featuring President Barack Obama amid intense get-out-the-vote efforts by both parties on the eve of

The latest Public Policy Poll shows Republican state Senator Scott Brown with a lead over the Democratic candidate, the state's Attorney General Martha

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has draw the ire of many with his comments about the Obama administration and donating to the Haitian relief effort.

President Barack Obama and the first lady travel to Delaware on Tuesday to attend funeral services for the mother of Vice President Joe Biden.

The Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday said he was disturbed by condescending remarks reportedly made by former President Bill Clinton about Barack Obama during the

John McCain’s top campaign strategist said in an interview Sunday that Sarah Palin was dishonest as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Politico

A double standard, charge Republicans vainly seeking Sen. Harry Reid's immediate resignation as majority leader. A different context than other racial gaffes,

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says concessions made to Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson to win his vote on the health care overhaul bill were a "rip-off"

Republicans on Sunday accused Democrats of a double standard by accepting Sen. Harry Reid's apology for racial remarks about Barack Obama instead of demanding

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologized on Saturday for saying the race of Barack Obama -- whom he described as a "light skinned" African-American "with

Santa Monica Mayor Ken Genser died on Saturday after a long illness, according to city officials. Ken Genser was 59 years old.

President Barack Obama says he's accepted an apology from the Senate's top Democrat for calling him a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect,

The Senate's plan to expand health coverage to 34 million more Americans would raise costs slightly, government economic experts said in a report Saturday.

San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly has made a New Year's resolution that may offend some people.

Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape,

NOTE - This event took place on Saturday, January 9. Admission will be free Saturday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda in

Vice President Joe Biden's 92-year-old mother has died after becoming seriously ill in recent days.

President Barack Obama says troubling jobless numbers for December show that the "road to recovery is never straight" but that the trend is pointing in the

President Barack Obama's most prominent holdover from the Bush administration -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates -- is staying on for at least another year.

President Obama's budget guru has a secret love child -- with the woman he jilted for his hot new fiancee, The Post has learned.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday acknowledged that more pain lies ahead for California as it confronts yet another massive budget deficit, but pledged

President Barack Obama is prodding House and Senate Democrats to get him a final health care bill as soon as possible, encouraging them to bypass the usual

With the 2010 election year barely under way, two senators and one governor — all Democrats — ditched plans to run for re-election in the latest signs of

North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan says he will not seek re-election to the Senate in 2010, a surprise announcement that could give Republicans an opportunity

President Obama has appointed Amanda Simpson, a woman who used to be a man, to a Commerce Department security post, which would make her the highest-level

President Barack Obama asserted on Tuesday that the U.S. government had enough information to foil the attempted bombing on a Christmas Day airline flight but

Freshman Alabama congressman Parker Griffith has lost most of his staff after switching parties from Democrat to Republican last month.

Dick Cheney's withering criticism of the Obama White House's terrorism-fighting policies came under an equally harsh response Sunday, with the former vice

Calif. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo is one of many people who are tired of commercials being blasted out of their televisions. Eshoo wanted to do something to stop this

An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens.

President Obama wished Americans a Happy New Year in a message released by the White House while the Obama family vacations in Hawaii. You can watch the

The federal judge presiding over an upcoming trial on California's same-sex marriage ban says he is considering seeking permission to broadcast the

A Republican senator who has been blocking President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration complains that Democrats are

Attorney General Jerry Brown says he will ask the California Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that overturned a state ban on felons owning or

Karl Rove, a former top adviser to President George W. Bush, was granted a divorce in Texas last week after 24 years of marriage, Politico reported.

Two federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top leaders for nearly a year.

A photo believed to be former President John F. Kennedy on a yacht with several naked women is being called a fake.

House Democrats aren't optimistic that a government insurance plan, a central element of health care legislation passed in their chamber, will survive

Democrats are troubled by the inconsistency of Republican lawmakers who approved a major Medicare expansion six years ago that has added tens of billions of

President Barack Obama has hailed Senate passage of an historic health care bill, saying the government is now "finally poised to deliver on the promise" of

Teresa Heinz, the wife of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (D-Ma.), disclosed that she is battling breast cancer in an editorial in the

Exultant Senate Democrats pushed President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul past a final procedural hurdle Wednesday, setting up a Christmas Eve

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says his only resolution this New Year's Eve will be "jobs, jobs, jobs."

A crucial, middle-of-the-night test vote behind them, Senate Democrats on Monday remained on track to pass historic health care legislation by Christmas,

Sen. John McCain brushed off the semi-controversy over his former running mate's visor Sunday, attributing the blog and talk show chatter about Sarah Palin's

The White House and its Senate allies defended a final push for historic health care legislation Sunday as outflanked Republicans pledged a fight to the end. A

It's one of the oldest spectator sports in American politics: Democrat vs. Democrat. Welcome to the health care overhaul edition.