House orders engraving of 'In God We Trust' motto
The national motto, "In God We Trust," will be engraved in the Capitol Visitor Center, responding to critic...
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Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The move increases Democrats' chances of holding on to the former Senate seat of President Barack Obama.
The national motto, "In God We Trust," will be engraved in the Capitol Visitor Center, responding to critic...
Two recent polls reflect the public unhappiness with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. In one poll, 60 perc...
High court nominee Sonia Sotomayor typically handed out tougher prison sentences than her colleagues in the...
Conservative Democrats in the House rebelled against their party leaders Thursday, raising concerns about t...
The nation's hospitals will give up $155 billion in future Medicare and Medicaid payments to help defray th...
Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was driven in part by her wish to help Republican ca...
Actor Kal Penn, who last year portrayed a captive in an orange jumpsuit escaping from Guantánamo, st...
President Barack Obama said Thursday he is uneasy about his own proposal to indefinitely imprison some of t...
Gov. Mark Sanford's "feet are in concrete" in resisting calls for him to leave office, say close friends wh...
President Barack Obama says he recognizes the heavy price tag of revamping the health care system but that ...
The White House says it's not quite time for industrialized nations to pull the plug on economic stimulus e...
President Barack Obama is praising historic American ties with Italy, saying the two countries are cooperat...
President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that "Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people," warning of ...
First lady Michelle Obama visited a community health center Monday to announce the release of $850 million ...
President Barack Obama on Monday declared that the United States still considers Manuel Zelaya to be the pr...
U.S. diplomats are working to ensure the safety of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and his family ...
The Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise an...
President Barack Obama is describing his German counterpart as "smart," and he adds that he can trust what ...
In never-released findings, auditors concluded that top state officials spent thousands commuting to their ...
The special investigator hired by the Florida House of Representatives to investigate Rep. Ray Sansom's dea...
As questions continue about state-plane use by Cabinet officials, Alex Sink orders an internal review of he...
Former House Speaker Ray Sansom faces possible sanctions after an investigator says he may have damaged con...
Travel records show how Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum use st...
Some seemingly cryptic information on a document could be crucial in the prosecution of Ray Sansom, former ...
Investigations into the dealings of former House Speaker Ray Sansom continue, despite his indictment.
A senator suspects Crist's veto of his student transportation bill was a form of retaliation.
The gambling legislation awaiting Gov. Charlie Crist's signature isn't likely to win the Seminole Tribe's c...
Sending criminals to out-of-state prisons is a 'safety valve' for Florida's overpopulated prisons.
Charlie Crist seated his fourth Supreme Court nominee, burnishing his reputation as a center-leaning governor
Sen. Bill Nelson told a congressional panel that the Burmese python, a killer pet thriving in the Everglade...
Democratic attorney general candidate Dave Aronberg says he barely knows an ex-con who arranged a fundraise...
Two veteran Miami city commissioners offer starkly divergent visions and styles as they seek to replace ter...
The president tapped a longtime political presence in Dade to run a minority economic office.
Members of the Miami-Dade School Board took a peek at the 2009-10 budget on Tuesday -- and many said they l...
Some fellow Republicans said that Marco Rubio's fundraising gap against Gov. Charlie Crist puts Rubio's Sen...
Florida's governor listed of net worth of $466,000 for 2008, nearly the same as it was the year before.
A new state study found that child-welfare doctors and case workers aren't following the rules when it come...
In never-released findings, auditors concluded that top state officials spent thousands commuting to their ...
Questions arise about a gubernatorial candidate's schedule of personal and business activities.
In Florida's closely watched governor's race, EMILY's List aims to give Democrat Alex Sink a financial boost.
State-by-state look at cities, counties and communities where stimulus money will be distributed to combat ...
People in the United States could get lower-cost drugs from Canada over the Internet under a plan that has ...
The Senate has again voted to allow the Obama administration to refuse to release new photos showing U.S. p...
President Obama plans to nominate Philip Murphy, a former finance chairman for the Democratic National Comm...
The Senate dealt a blow to the drug lobby Thursday by voting to permit people in the United States to order...
Dozens of orchestras around the nation can keep playing for now, kept in tune by federal stimulus dollars a...
The political crisis in Honduras has cost the country nearly $20 million in U.S. aid - and the price tag co...
The U.S. military on Thursday reluctantly turned over to Iraq five Iranians it had accused of fomenting vio...
As President Barack Obama and other world leaders meet in Italy, a global survey released Thursday reflects...
House Democrats were working Thursday to avert a showdown with President Barack Obama and the CIA over who ...
Amid the great debates of the day over health care, global warming and economic recovery, House Speaker Nan...
Talks to resolve the leadership crisis in Honduras got on track Thursday, with both sides holding closed-do...
Talks between the ousted and de facto Honduran leaders, mediated by a Nobel Peace Prize-winning president, ...
A budding alliance between Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and several small, English-speaking island nation...
Honduras' Manuel Zelaya is expected to meet with U.S. officials in Washington to find another way to reclai...
Once the dust settles from the military coup in Honduras, there's likely to be negotiations between the int...
Mexico's long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party promised Monday it has learned from the past and c...
Honduras' military prevented ousted President Manuel Zelaya from landing in the capital, where thousands wa...
Bayonet-wielding soldiers are not the biggest threat to democracy in Latin America, where more than a dozen...
Cash-strapped Caribbean leaders plan to lobby international financial institutions for assistance.
WASHINGTON - The Organization of American States voted late Saturday to suspend Honduras from the group ove...