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WASHINGTON -- In one of the most significant reversals yet of the previous administration's policies, President Obama signed an executive order Monday to permit federal funding for human embryonic stem [...]

WASHINGTON A group of Christian Democrats seeking to compete against Republicans for the vote of religious Americans have started a new Web site meant to serve as a forum for [...]

WASHINGTON The sweeping immigration bill the Senate will tackle upon its return to Washington next week has been hailed as a compromise that marries tough border enforcement with humane treatment [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ Michael Powell, chief regulator of the nation's airwaves and telecommunications who was at the center of controversies over his attempts to deregulate media ownership and [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ When America's first lady puts her arm around you, what exactly is the right response, protocol-wise? That delicate question arose during the official photograph President [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ In early 2001, Sen. John Kerry phoned veteran political columnist Martin Nolan and invited him to breakfast at San Francisco's posh Fairmont Hotel. Their meeting [...]

Byline: Frank James and Rick Pearson LAS VEGAS _ Sen. John Kerry questioned President Bush's truthfulness on the Iraq war Thursday, accusing the president of misleading the nation's warriors about [...]

Byline: Frank James NANTUCKET, Mass. _ Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday discarded the long-standing tradition for presidential candidates to lay low the week of the opposing party's convention by scheduling [...]

CRAWFORD, Texas - John Kerry's campaign lashed out at President Bush's military record Sunday, contending the nation would not have rushed ill-equipped troops to a war in Iraq if the [...]

Byline: Rick Pearson and Frank James CRAWFORD, Texas _ John Kerry's campaign lashed out at President Bush's military record Sunday, contending the nation would not have rushed ill-equipped troops to [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ President Bush's campaign is offering up a new reason to vote against his Democratic challenger _ that Sen. John Kerry is too gloomy for the [...]

Byline: Frank James GREEN BAY, Wis. _ On the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, Sen. John Kerry spent Friday in the company of veterans and active duty armed service [...]

Byline: Frank James LAS VEGAS _ At a gathering of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters where he received the union's endorsement, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry promised Sunday that [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ Congressional officials said Wednesday they planned to start reopening Senate office buildings Thursday as Capitol Hill tried to return to normal following the discovery of [...]

Byline: Frank James VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. _ John Allen Muhammad, one of two individuals charged in last year's deadly sniper shootings that traumatized the Washington, D.C., area, was convicted of [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ More a quarter of top brokerage firms have let mutual fund customers illegally trade shares after hours, and nearly a third had disclosed their portfolio [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ On the eve of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President Bush called Wednesday for a controversial expansion of federal law-enforcement powers [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ The nation's media companies should plan to work together in the event of another large-scale terrorist attack to ensure that the public receives vital emergency [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ On Sept. 11, police in helicopters hovering above New York's World Trade Center towers radioed warnings that the buildings appeared in danger of collapsing. But [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ Attorney General John Ashcroft has decided to claim the sweeping power to keep undocumented immigrants in custody indefinitely for national security reasons even if immigration [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ As the Homeland Security Department called on Americans to buy duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal windows and doors in the event of a [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ Pediatricians and the Bush administration will likely soon clash with the powerful drug industry over whether medications that are prescribed for children must be tested [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON_Dr. Mark McClellan, the Food and Drug Administration's new leader, was so precociously smart, says his mother, that he could read words from newspaper ads to her [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ A rising flood of irritating junk e-mails touting everything from get-rich-quick schemes to raunchy pornography, ink-jet cartridges and weight-loss drugs threatens to keep the Internet [...]

WASHINGTON _ The Republican recapture of the U.S. Senate means Sen. John McCain will once again assume the chairmanship of the important Commerce Committee _ a welcome prospect in corporate [...]

BOCA RATON, Fla. _ In the end, Harvey Pitt probably did the best thing he could to restore investor confidence: resign. That's the theme building here as the securities industry [...]

WASHINGTON_Ex-Marine Scott Ritter is a self-described patriot on a self-appointed mission. The 41-year-old former United Nations weapons inspector has said his duty is to be one of the most vocal [...]

WASHINGTON _ As Republicans and Democrats sought political advantage, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that tax receipts into the federal treasury plunged to a degree not seen since [...]