WASHINGTON - Half a dozen legislators sat a few feet away, under the crystal chandeliers of the East Room of the White House, as Bob Dylan sang “The Times They Are A-Changin',” poker-faced.

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Michelle Obama, appearing with members of the Watkins Hornets, the 2009 National Championship Pee-Wee football team, spoke yesterday at the White House about her initiative, “Let's Move,'' a campaign to help combat childhood obesity.

(02-09) 04:00 PST Washington - -- Despite the blizzard gripping Washington, Democrats, Republicans and advocacy groups began intense maneuvering Tuesday in advance of the televised health care summit that President Obama has set for Feb.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York State Senate has voted to expel a senator for the first time in almost a century, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

As a frontal assault on the social Web castles of Facebook and Twitter, Google Buzz lets users post status updates, pictures, links, videos and other content in Gmail and share them with users, or the entire Web.

Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts posed with his trusty old pickup truck - one he drove from Boston to Washington on Sunday - before casting his first Senate vote yesterday.

Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of Russia's general staff, said Tuesday that Russian discontent over the planned American missile defense system was holding up negotiations to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or Start.

STONEHAM - The 70-year-old father of Olympic skating star Nancy Kerrigan died last month as a result of a struggle with his son, the state medical examiner ruled yesterday in declaring the death a homicide, ...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a swipe at Sarah Palin Tuesday, mimicking the former vice presidential candidate's decision to use her hand as a notepad at the National Tea Party Convention last week.

Voters were showing their support for most area school districts, with partial returns from Tuesday's special election favoring passage of billions of dollars in levy and bond measures to operate, maintain and build schools.

ALBANY, NY - New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said Tuesday that he would leave only if the voters turned him out through the ballot box, or he's carried out "in a box.

Sri Lankan opposition parties have said they will mount a legal challenge to the detention of defeated presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka.

A South Shore mother was found guilty yesterday of second-degree murder in the death of her 4-year-old daughter, Rebecca, who went to sleep one night after being given toxic levels of psychotropic drugs and never woke up.

The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States fell by 1 million, or 8 percent, between 2007 and 2009, the US government reported Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says American businesses will be able to look ahead with confidence, once they're convinced that officials in Washington have their "act together.

Abuja - The two chambers of the National Assembly: Senate and the House of Representatives, yesterday unanimously resolved to constitutionally empower Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as acting president in line with Section 145 of the 1999 ...

Snow fell near the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Tuesday night. By ANAHAD O'CONNOR A severe snowstorm swept from the Midwest into major East Coast cities Wednesday morning, forcing school and office closures and grounding hundreds of ...

By AP The man who took hostages in 2007 at a presidential campaign office of Hillary Rodham Clinton in Rochester cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday and is a fugitive.

A single billboard in rural Minnesota with the words 'Miss Me Yet' and a photo of President Bush was enough to start a national conversation.