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WASHINGTON -- Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described 'bleeding-heart conservative,' died Saturday. He was 73. His spokeswoman Bona Park and longtime friend and former campaign adviser [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali pirates and their hostage American sea captain were adrift in a lifeboat Thursday off the Horn of Africa, shadowed by a U.S. destroyer with more warships [...]

WASHINGTON -- A seething federal judge Tuesday dismissed the corruption conviction of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and took the rare and serious step of ordering a criminal investigation into [...]

WASHINGTON -- Wells Fargo & Co. abruptly canceled Tuesday a pricey Las Vegas casino junket for employees after a torrent of criticism that it was misusing $25 billion in taxpayer [...]

WASHINGTON -- It's one of the ironies of the U.S. financial bailout: The banking executives now managing billions in taxpayer money are the same ones who oversaw the industry's near [...]

WASHINGTON -- Think you could borrow money from a bank without saying what you were going to do with it? Well, apparently when banks borrow from you they don't feel [...]

WASHINGTON -- Wild, unprovoked gunfire and grenades killed 14 innocent Iraqis and hurt dozens more in a 2007 Baghdad attack, prosecutors said Monday in announcing charges with mandatory 30-year prison [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now [...]

WASHINGTON -- The full scope of the housing meltdown is not clear, and already there are ominous signs of a new crisis -- one that could turn out the lights [...]

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would [...]

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's advisers are crafting plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and prosecute terrorism suspects in the U.S., a plan that the Bush administration said Monday [...]

WASHINGTON -- Hate crime incidents decreased slightly last year, despite a surge in crimes targeting gays and lesbians. The FBI reported more than 7,600 hate crime incidents in 2007, down [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified for two hours Friday in an abuse-of-power investigation that has been a distraction to her Republican vice presidential campaign. Palin's leadership was [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A month after she became governor, Sarah Palin's staff ushered Alaska's public safety commissioner into her private office. But Palin wasn't there. Her husband, Todd, had called [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her [...]

WASHINGTON GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin accepted at least $4,500 in campaign contributions in the same fund-raising scheme at the center of a corruption scandal that led to the [...]

WASHINGTON John McCain may have created his own housing crisis. Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, [...]

WASHINGTON Army scientist Bruce Ivins had in his lab highly purified anthrax spores that were linked to the 2001 attacks that killed five and access to the distinctive envelopes used [...]

WASHINGTON Authorities investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks will begin meeting with victims' families today to discuss the case, family members said, an indication that some lingering questions in the investigation [...]

WASHINGTON Anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and severely rattled the post-9/11 nation may have been part of an Army scientist's warped plan to test his cure for the deadly [...]

WASHINGTON Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens pleaded not guilty to corruption charges Thursday and received an unusually speedy trial date, which he hopes will clear his name before voters consider reelecting [...]

WASHINGTON Sen. Ted Stevens, the nation's longest-serving Republican senator and a major figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, was indicted Tuesday on seven felony counts of concealing more than [...]

WASHINGTON A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years [...]

WASHINGTON Close your eyes, reach into your wallet and try to distinguish between a $1 bill and a $5 bill. Impossible? That's why a federal appeals court says the currency [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. Wearing a flag lapel pin, Sen. Barack Obama emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong and humane military Monday, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored West Virginians [...]

GRAFTON, W.Va. Sen. Hillary Clinton toured the birthplace of Mother's Day in rural West Virginia, offering Democrats a subtle reminder Sunday that her fading candidacy remains strong among women and [...]

WASHINGTON Louisiana Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify on behalf of a woman accused of running an upscale Washington prostitution service, attorneys said Monday at the opening of [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, backed Barack Obama for president Friday, moved to deliver his much-coveted endorsement by the senator's speech about race. The New Mexico [...]

WASHINGTON The Justice Department opened a full criminal investigation Wednesday into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes. Attorney General Michael Mukasey put the politically charged probe in the hands of [...]

WASHINGTON The Bush administration must answer questions about the destruction of CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida suspects, a federal judge said Tuesday, rejecting the government's efforts to keep the [...]

WASHINGTON The controversy over destroyed CIA interrogation tapes is shaping up as a turf battle involving the courts, Congress and the White House, with the Bush administration telling its constitutional [...]

WASHINGTON White House press secretaries, who speak for the president and appear before the nation on his behalf, have traditionally kept their secrets while their bosses are in office. That [...]

WASHINGTON Sen. Larry Craig will file court documents today asking to withdraw his guilty plea in a sex sting that seems likely to end his career, his attorney said. Craig, [...]

WASHINGTON The Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program has a built-in feature the Justice Department believes may shield it from ever being challenged as unconstitutional: secrecy. The administration has acknowledged it [...]

WASHINGTON Evidence that doctors are at the heart of a British terrorist plot has foreign-born physicians in the U.S. on edge and wondering whether already stringent immigration security will get [...]

WASHINGTON President Bush on Tuesday left open the possibility of an eventual pardon for former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby. 'As to the future, I rule nothing in [...]

WASHINGTON The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of [...]

BLACKSBURG, Va. In high school, Cho Seung-Hui almost never opened his mouth. When he finally did, his classmates laughed, pointed at him and said: 'Go back to China.' As such [...]

BLACKSBURG, Va. Midway through his murderous rampage, the Virginia Tech gunman went to the post office and mailed NBC a package containing photos and videos of him brandishing guns and [...]

BLACKSBURG, Va. The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note in [...]

WASHINGTON The CIA leak saga did not end with I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's conviction this week. On top of his lengthy appeals, he and senior Bush administration officials face a [...]

WASHINGTON Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that shook the top levels of [...]

WASHINGTON Attorneys for former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby rested their case in the CIA leak trial Wednesday after a day of legal wrangling over classified information and [...]

WASHINGTON Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, in tapes played Monday in the CIA leak trial, pressed Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff on whether Cheney had directed him to [...]

WASHINGTON Former Republican Rep. Bob Ney was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison Friday for trading political favors for golf trips, campaign donations and other gifts in the Jack Abramoff [...]

WASHINGTON FBI agents documented more than two dozen incidents of possible mistreatment at the Guantanamo Bay military base, including one detainee whose head was wrapped in duct tape for chanting [...]

WASHINGTON Domestic violence rates fell sharply between 1993 and 2004, the Justice Department said Thursday, noting that American Indian women and native Alaskan women are far more likely to be [...]

WASHINGTON When Robert Steinbuch discovered his girlfriend had discussed intimate details about their sex life in her online diary, the Capitol Hill staffer didn't just get mad. He got a [...]

WASHINGTON Prominent conservative lawyers joined liberal colleagues Tuesday in opposing Bush administration anti-terror tactics, arguing that an immigrant held as an enemy combatant has a right to seek his freedom [...]