Analysts are anticipating Alaska’s general election after incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski conceded defeat.

With legislation stuck in congress, President Obama may issue an executive order to ease the 50-year-old travel ban to Cuba before Labor Day.

In the second Oval Office address of his presidency, President Barack Obama announced the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. The speech was largely symbolic, as the last combat brigade had already left the country in mid-August.

Buried deep in the new Wall Street reform law is a public disclosure of CEO pay in relation to each company’s average employee.

On Thursday, leaders from the Middle East will meet in Washington, D.C., to resume peace talks mediated by the United States. But many worry current Israeli-Palestinian tensions will prove too much.

The ad, and others like it, are stoking a continuing debate over whether Americans are growing increasingly Islamophobic.

President Obama is back from vacation and focused on foreign policy as he prepares to officially announce Tuesday the end of formal U.S. operation in Iraq.

State leaders are blaming a clerical error for New Jersey’s loss of a potential $400 million for its education system. But some analysts say the state wouldn't have won anyway.

Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally drew a massive crowd of conservatives to the National Mall on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

After federal deficit commission co-chair Alan Simpson made a controversial remark about Social Security being "a cow with 310 million tits," calls have built up for his resignation.