In his latest job creation effort, President Barack Obama is trying to find practical and politically feasible ways of spurring hiring among skittish employers. Among the ideas expected in his economic speech Tuesday is an expanded program that gives

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says would 'go and get' bin Laden if it could gather reliable information on his whereabouts

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S.

"How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." -- Henry David Thoreau

President Obama has decided to send more than 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, at a cost of more than $100 billion/year. But America cannot afford a war that does not make us safer, and Congress has the power to stop the escalation. Vote NO on any

If the new Afghanistan war strategy smacks of something vaguely familiar, then look no more, because President Barack Obama has liberally borrowed from an unlikely source: "the playbook of George W. Bush"!?!?

Wow, this is great. The "Educate to Innovate" campaign will aim to improve U.S students' grounding in science, technology, engineering, and math education through $260 million in public-private partnerships, plus the first "National Lab Day" to update...

After 8 years, nearly 5,300 U.S. lives, and $3 trillion, it's time to bring our troops safely home from Afghanistan and Iraq. We urge Congress to vote against any funds for these wars, except to bring our troops safely home..

Never before has a speech by Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric -- and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught.

President Obama aims to step up operations in Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, but he won't be making any speeches about it. The president has quietly authorized an expansion of the CIA campaign...........