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Democrats and Republicans reached an 11th-hour deal to keep the federal government open for the r...

Posted 2011-04-11

Senators from both parties say they really want to stop the federal government from closing shop ...

Posted 2011-04-04

The Obama team is facing some pointed questions about what the U.S. military is doing attacking L...

Posted 2011-03-28

President Obama's critics say he isn't taking ownership of the Western military attack against Li...

Posted 2011-03-21

Japan is working hard to avoid a total meltdown at several of its nuclear power plants. How big w...

Posted 2011-03-14

The Arab uprisings are being felt far beyond the Middle East and North Africa — at the gas pump a...

Posted 2011-03-07

The West is imposing sanctions on Moammar Gadhafi's government. But are the U.S. and its allied d...

Posted 2011-02-28

Hosni Mubarak's fall has opened up a huge opportunity for the Arab world, and huge risks for desp...

Posted 2011-02-13

The Obama administration is reacting to the rapidly unfolding events in Egypt with some possibly ...

Posted 2011-02-07

The U.S. is walking a fine line between supporting President Hosni Mubarak and encouraging the pr...

Posted 2011-01-31

President Obama is focusing his State of the Union Address on centrist, bipartisan themes. But is...

Posted 2011-01-24

Jared Loughner's shooting spree has sparked an understated partisan war over heated partisan warf...

Posted 2011-01-10

Republicans have high hopes for the 112th Congress. Will they find enough common ground with Pres...

Posted 2011-01-03

What does President Obama's successful lame-duck session, and the preceding midterm "shellacking,...

Posted 2010-12-27

The Senate sent President Obama a bill that will end the 17-year-old policy on gays in the milita...

Posted 2010-12-20

President Obama is getting grief from the Left, and even a little from the Right, over his deal t...

Posted 2010-12-13