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The House overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's veto of a $290 billion farm bill, but what should have been a stinging defeat for the president became an embarrassment for Democrats, thanks to a bad printing job.

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, President Bush's nominee to lead U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, supports continued U.S. engagement with international and regional partners to find the right mix of diplomatic, economic and military leverage to address the challenges posed by Iran.

Longtime uber-lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr. is John McCain's man in Washington, a political maestro who is hoping to guide his friend, the senator from Arizona, to the presidency this November.

A day after hearing the diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) left Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and returned to his family compound on Cape Cod, hailed by crowds that lined the streets to wish him well.

Reeling from drubbings in three special elections in the past two months, House Republicans yesterday unveiled a series of tactical and personnel changes at their campaign arm designed to forestall more losses in November.

TAMPA, May 21 -- Sen. Barack Obama sought on Wednesday to win over general-election voters in the critical swing state of Florida, as rival Sen. Hillary Rodham clinton vowed to remain in the race until the state's invalidated primary results are counted, even if that means taking the fight to the...

Five years ago, as troubling reports emerged about the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a career lawyer at the Justice Department began a long and relatively lonely campaign to alert top Bush administration officials to a strategy he considered "wrongheaded."

Top lawmakers in Congress criticized the Department of Homeland security yesterday for failing to provide adequate medical care to detained immigrants, and said they plan to demand explanations today from Secretary Michael Chertoff and Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary for U.S. immigration and ...

The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said it has formed a subcommittee to investigate Rep. Vito J. Fossella (R-N.Y.), who announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection after being charged with drunken driving and after revelations of an extramarital affair with Laura Fay, a...

The House overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's veto of a roughly $290 billion farm bill but what should have been a stinging defeat for Bush became an embarrassing episode for Democrats.