President Barack Obama said Tuesday U.S. policy makers should be able to reach a bipartisan consensus on high-profile issues such as health care and energy,

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mocked Sarah Palin’s much publicized use of notes written on her hands at the daily White House press briefing

A billboard featuring a picture of former U.S. president George W. Bush and the tagline 'Miss me yet?' left residents of Minnesota wondering what it meant and

President Obama held a meeting at the White House Tuesday with Democrat and Republican congressional leaders, saying that he wanted Congress to work together

U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77.

The Obama administration was expected to unveil a new plan this week to bring healthier school lunches to children across the U.S.

Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, telling a gathering of "tea

While FOX 5 was busy covering the start of the Blizzard of 2010 in D.C. on Friday night, our reporters came across a number of stranded vehicles—but one stood

It's his first full day in the Senate and some of Scott Brown's Republican colleagues have already nicknamed him 41 -- for the number of votes they now have,

Tea Party organizers will Friday propose the closest thing yet to a national organizing strategy for the upcoming 2010 midterm elections at a press conference

By a paper-thin margin on Capitol Hill, the house votes to let the government get two trillion dollars more in debt.  Some house leaders and conservative

Republican Scott Brown is poised to take his Senate seat a week earlier than he planned, ending the Democrats' supermajority in just enough time to block

President Barack Obama said Thursday he prays lawmakers can restore a "spirit of civility" to the nation's capital.

A chilling prediction from U.S. intelligence officials who say al-Qaeda will likely launch an attack on the U.S. sometime in the next three to six months.  

For the first time, government programs next year will account for more than half of all U.S. health care spending, federal actuaries predict, as the weak