WASHINGTON — A bipartisan trio of key senators is demanding that President Barack Obama take more decisive action to stem the military advance b...

This week's announcement that the Justice Department is going to drop its appeal against providing the morning-after birth control pill to anyone who needs it comes as such a welcome change that we feel the award is deserved.

The claim from every head of the armed services that the military can solve this problem and leave intact the chain of command issues is about to be tested. Issue your orders to your subordinates. Let it be known that the "look the other way" and "boys will be boys" culture is over.

WASHINGTON — Siding with the Pentagon's top brass, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday to keep commanders involve...

WASHINGTON -- The witness table stretched across the front of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing room Tuesday, ready for testimony from 20 pe...

Is Apple so prodigious an American icon that our elected representatives fear a voter backlash? Is that what all their unseemly, inane fawning was about?

Lois Lerner, the embattled head of the Internal Revenue Service's exempt organizations division, has been placed on administrative leave after invokin...

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have neither conducted nor received any analyses that would show whether criminal charges against large fina...

By DONNA CASSATA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress – a wo...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President B...

WASHINGTON -- The war authorization that Congress passed after 9/11 will be needed for at least 10 to 20 more years, and can be used to put the United...

WASHINGTON -- Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in ...

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed President Barack Obama of the latest sexual assault allegations against a soldier who was assigne...

After an election in which hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled through "dark money" nonprofit groups by people like Karl Rove, campaign fina...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama should appoint a White House official to help transfer 86 Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared for release ...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The chairman of a Senate committee says the sexual battery arrest of the Air Force officer who led the branch...

Hours after announcing that he's considering a lawsuit against some of America's biggest banks, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman affirmed h...

WASHINGTON -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has privately criticized the Obama administration and the Department of Justice for not aggr...

WASHINGTON -- Wednesday's vote on expanding background checks for gun sales would have led to headlines in many other countries about a landslide vict...