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A monitor appointed by the state to investigate the East Ramapo School District in Rockland County delivered a sharply critical report on Monday, saying the board had shown favoritism to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Even before President Obama issued his forceful call this week for ''the strongest possible rules'' to protect an open Internet, Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications [...]

Known primarily as number crunchers and tax collectors, treasurers for state and local governments traditionally were limited to activities like processing payrolls, managing budgets, safeguarding pensions and being the target [...]

Byline: Carol Morello A senior Iranian official has suggested Iran may be considering the release of a Washington Post reporter jailed for over 100 days without charges. Hopes that Jason [...]

WASHINGTON -- After commandos and F.B.I. agents snatched a key suspect in the 2012 attack on an American diplomatic compound in Libya, some Republican lawmakers urged the Obama administration to [...]

Every morning David S. Cohen descends into a fortified, cavelike complex in the bowels of the Treasury Department to pore through hundreds of pages of leads -- from raw intelligence [...]

Byline: Dina ElBoghdady WASHINGTON - When it comes to taking out a mortgage, two factors can stand in the way: the price of the mortgage - as in the down [...]

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the military on Wednesday to improve access to treatment, quality of care and patient safety at its hospitals and clinics, giving underperforming hospitals four to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- The Secret Service director is reviewing her agency's actions in a 2011 shooting at the White House as well as during an intrusion this month by an [...]

Byline: William Wan BEIJING - Hong Kong police deployed tear gas to try to disperse thousands of pro-democracy protesters outside government offices Sunday, yielding scenes of unusual chaos in the [...]

Byline: Amanda Paulson When Chicago students left for their first day of school Tuesday, many of them walked by a veritable army of guards designated to keep them safe. The [...]

Byline: Colbert I. King President Obama has been put on the spot over the Islamic State - but not by hawkish conservatives. His own people have placed him there. When [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Klimas, THE WASHINGTON TIMES It will take two years, 1,500 more doctors and more than $17 billion in taxpayer money to fix the problems plaguing the VA, acting [...]

New York State's top financial regulator has taken a big step to bring Bitcoin and other virtual currencies under its purview. On Thursday, Benjamin M. Lawsky, the superintendent of financial […]

The following editorial appeared in Wednesday's Washington Post: Arab states dependent on the United States for military and economic support once went out of their way to avoid public conflict [...]

The Obama administration will take further steps to ease foreclosures, rising rents and scarce mortgages, Jacob J. Lew, the Treasury secretary, said on Thursday at a conference observing the fifth [...]

Byline: Henri J. Barkey The recent directive from Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. essentially banning contacts between members of the intelligence community and the media has been [...]

CIA Director John Brennan is trapped - caught between the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is accusing his agency of lying about the effectiveness of its terrorist interrogation program, and his [...]

Byline: Juliet Eilperin WASHINGTON - Two years ago, Marlon Marshall was deputy national field director for President Barack Obama's disciplined, centralized re-election campaign. His job was to mobilize enthusiastic supporters [...]

Byline: Mary Pat Flaherty and Jenna Johnson ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A top Maryland health official sharpened criticism of the lead contractor on the state's troubled health-exchange project Wednesday, saying Noridian [...]

BERLIN -- German culture officials will begin discussing plans for a new, independent center as part of efforts to strengthen the country's handling of the restitution of art looted by [...]

ISLAMABAD -- Mohammad Zubair was on a dinner cruise in Thailand with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan when he was offered the hardest job of his life: privatizing a [...]

PARIS -- The clock is ticking for the European Union's antitrust chief, whose extensive powers put him in the front line of battles with industrial titans. In his remaining time [...]

Demob happy, and concentrating on his university chancellorship role, Chris Patten outlined the success of the European Union: 'its single market and currency, its ability to act cohesively in the [...]

ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made clear on Monday what has become increasingly obvious to both supporters and opponents of fracking: He is in no rush to make a [...]

Britain's new envoy to Tehran will travel to Iran on Tuesday, the first diplomatic visit by a British official since Britain's embassy in Tehran was stormed more than two years [...]

He has been shushed, booed, called imperious and mocked as the incomprehensible teacher who bleated on and on in Charlie Brown's classroom. In a series of public forums across the [...]

BERLIN -- As the possibility of U.S. strikes against Syria dominates the headlines, the European Union is quietly keeping its attention on Egypt, where a month ago the military ousted [...]

Byline: Luis Fabregas Aug. 24--Michael Moreland wants our nation's veterans to believe he's watching out for them. That much is evident in the latest newsletter produced by the regional director [...]

Byline: Sarah Lynch As protests began again Tuesday, the first outsider allowed to see deposed president Mohammed Morsi said he is doing fine and is being well cared for at [...]