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Over time, the U.S. Capitol has taken on two very different faces. What was once deemed the back side of the building -- facing the Mall -- became a grand, ceremonial front, with the addition of dramatic stairs, terraces and landscaping that emphasized its prominence on a hill. To the east, the o...

Leaving the news conference in Chicago yesterday where he introduced his national security team, President-elect Barack Obama strolled out of the room arm in arm with his choice for secretary of state and onetime rival, Hillary Rodham clinton. The gesture may have been a subtle indication that Obama...

DULUTH, Ga., Dec. 1 -- Declaring "I'll tell ya, I've had Georgia on my mind," former republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin implored Georgia conservatives on Monday to vote for Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Tuesday's runoff election.

The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a bipartisan congressionally mandated task force concludes in a draft study that warns of growing threats from rogue states, nuclear smuggling networks and the spread of atomic know-how...

When Barack Obama stood on the stage in Chicago yesterday with his "dear friend" Hillary clinton at his side, it was the starkest evidence yet that change had come -- to the president-elect.

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team announced yesterday that in the 10 days after the election it raised more than $1.1 million from 1,776 donors to pay for transition costs.

LONDON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played the piano for Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace Monday as a farewell gesture before the end of the Bush administration's term next month.

President-elect Barack Obama's high-powered national security team, introduced yesterday at a Chicago news conference, faces the challenge of managing two wars and various ongoing foreign policy crises even as it helps the president-elect shape what he called "a new beginning, a new dawn of american...

The prospects of losing a seat after the next census could depend on as few as 1,800 people, the state demographer says. So officials are getting the word out.

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