The intensifying warfare in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has put a new focus on the increasingly hard line that Senator John McCain has taken against Russia in recent years.

Senator Evan Bayh is a leading candidate to be Barack Obama’s running mate, but he differed from Mr. Obama on the Iraq war.

The U.S. and its European allies seemed uncertain how to adjust to Russian actions in Georgia that could undermine democratic gains in the region.

Bob Kelleher, who wants to replace the government with a parliamentary democracy, is the surprise Republican nominee in the race against Senator Max Baucus in Montana.

Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said Monday that he hopes to recommend significant reductions in the number of American troops stationed in Iraq.

The Congressional Budget Office found that the United States this year will have spent $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,131 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Monday:.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign team of highly paid advisers was riven by back-biting, poor management and conflicting strategies.

Patrick J. Leahy and Arlen Specter said that the F.B.I.’s use of the phone records of four reporters at The New York Times and The Washington Post showed a “pressing need” for legislation.

The Bush administration is proposing to let federal agencies decide for themselves whether construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants, according to a draft of rule changes.

To hear the presidential candidates talk, you'd think that lobbyists were about to be exiled from the capital city.

Another scandal, and another politician’s mea culpa makes things worse.

The amendments to Presidential Executive Order 12333 that were released July 31 provided guidance to the U.S. intelligence community based on three years' experience putting into effect the reorganization required by congressional legislation passed in 2004. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who...

BEIJING, Aug. 10 It was a wild scene in the corridor underneath the basketball arena, as President Bush and virtually his entire immediate family showed up to give a little pre-game encouragement to the all-star collection of NBA players who make up Team USA. Daughter Barbara smiled as she posed ...

In the five-year struggle to finish the war in Iraq, military leaders and their troops have said a particular weapon is among the most effective in their arsenal:

TALLAHASSEE -- Herbert Pompey had gone through rehab, stayed sober, held a job, married and started a landscaping business in the two years since he walked out of Taylor Correctional Institution. But what Pompey hadn't done -- and what he assumed a string of felony drug and DUI convictions would...

The Department of Homeland Security swept aside evaluations by government experts and named Mississippi -- home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency -- as a potential location for a $451 million national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, acc...

The opening round of the general-election campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain has produced memorable images, negative ads, snarling e-mails and pointed exchanges over war, the economy and energy. What it has not done is begin to resolve questions among voters that both candidates must...

On the campaign trail, Sen. Barack Obama bashes President Bush for "reckless" economic policies that are "mortgaging our children's future on a mountain of debt." But the Democratic presidential candidate has adopted a key component of Bush's fiscal policy: A novel bookkeeping method that guarantees...