A hot dog vending cart was wheeled back and forth. Cocktail waitresses hurried past with trays full of beer.

An aide to Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has been arrested on charges that he brought marijuana into a Senate office building.

The House is expected to reconsider a bill this month to provide up to $7.4 billion to workers sickened during cleanup of World Trade Center site after the Sept.

A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Boeing Co.'s role flying terrorism suspects to secret prisons around the world as part of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program.

Sen. Charles Grassley has asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to address accusations that federal workers ignored complaints about conditions at an Iowa farm involved in a recall of salmonella-tainted eggs.

The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept.

The oil giant BP said Wednesday in its internal report that a series of failures involving a number of companies ultimately led to the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

"No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy," BP said in a statement about the report. "Rather, a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties led to the explosion and fire which killed 11 people and caused widespread pollution in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year."

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is asserting that the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy is beginning to pay dividends.

Smoke rises as a firefighting helicopter alights after taking on water to spray over a wildfire on September 7, 2010 in Boulder, Colorado.

Police disperse crowd near Westlake site where officer shot a day laborer to death.

A deadly bear attack continues to spark controversy. Animals rights activists from PETA are urging township trustees to ban private ownership of exotic animals.

It's power spent, what was left of Tropical Storm Hermine was making its way north Wednesday, having drenched parts of northeastern Mexico and south Texas before weakening.

House Republican Leader John Boehner onWednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy.

President Obama today plans to propose $30 billion in new investment tax breaks for businesses to go along with tens of billions in spending he called for on Labor Day to invigorate the slow recovery.

Construction continues on One World Trade Center , center right, next to the footprints of the former 1 World Trade Center and 2 World Trade Center in the Financial District of Manhattan in this aerial photo taken over New York Photographer: Keyur Khamar/Bloomberg Four office towers, a transit center designed by Santiago Calatrava , a memorial and ...

Vulnerable because of Nevada's dismal economy, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid fought back Tuesday against the charge from GOP challenger Sharron Angle that he is responsible for the state's record downfall.

Another day, another stupid from Sharon Angle. Sitting down with conservative radio talk show host Heidi Harris, Angle once again addressed a topic that brought her a bit of political heat -- including a hard-hitting ad from her opponent Harry Reid-- not too long ago.

Florida pastor Terry Jones will undoubtedly offend and infuriate many people around the world if he follows through on a plan to burn Muslim Qurans at his church this weekend.

Despite two terms as governor of New Mexico and recent visits to 26 states, most Americans have never heard of Gary Johnson.

President Barack Obama doesn't go there anymore. The days of Obama traipsing around the country to states like Montana, Indiana or Arkansas in freewheeling campaign mode - and with sky-high popularity lifting Democratic candidates - are long over.