WASHINGTON - It is an old tradition, a White House dinner governed by ritual and protocol that happens to be this city's hottest social event.

The Lou Dobbs-for-Senate rumor had barely crested when the Lou Dobbs-for-president rumor suddenly overtook it this week. Kathy Willens/Associated Press Lou Dobbs, speaking with Bill O'Reilly of Fox News.

The reaction to a brief speech that Gov. David A. Paterson made via webcast on Tuesday morning seemed to ensure that. The governor asked the Legislature to grant him unilateral authority to make cuts to close a $3.2 billion budget ...

The Conservative Party candidate who drove the Republican nominee out of a House special election in upstate New York last month only to lose to the Democrat says he will run again in 2010.

The chief of the Los Angeles County Fire Department plans to retire in March after nearly 21 years as chief. Michael Freeman sent a letter to the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday announcing his retirement.

THE VILLAGES, Fla. - Sarah Palin, who says the 2012 presidential election isn't on her radar, took her "Going Rogue" book tour to the biggest of the battleground states Tuesday, including a stop in the retirement community where tens of thousands of ...

A Hezbollah political official and his son-in-law sought this year to smuggle 1200 machine guns from the United States to the militant Islamist group via Syria, according to indictments made public Tuesday against 10 men in federal ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. - On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the government: a census worker found bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree, the word "fed" scrawled across his ...

Some conservatives on the Republican National Committee reportedly want candidates to undergo a litmus test or risk losing party funding.

WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday fired back at critics who claim he's not supportive enough of domestic energy production, saying their accusations have the same "poison and substance of ...

Google has issued a disclaimer about a crude image of First Lady Michelle Obama appearing on Google search results. At first, Google removed the link to a blog with the image but later restored it.

COLUMBIA, SC - South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford's summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina debated a measure Tuesday that ultimately would remove him from office.

By Kathy Milani, HSUS By Sharon L. Peters Special for, USA TODAY When the biggest dogfighting bust in history - a multi-state, multi-agency effort - went down last summer, the Humane Society of the United States and the American Society for the ...

PRINCETON, NJ, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- President Obama's approval among white Americans has fallen to 39 percent since taking office in January, Gallup Daily poll results indicated.

Dow Constantine was sworn in as King County executive Tuesday afternoon, pledging to be open to new ideas and to represent the urban, suburban and rural parts of one of the nation's largest counties.

(11-24) 18:18 PST OAKLAND -- Alameda County prosecutors declined Tuesday to file felony assault charges against a San Leandro man whose window-shattering arrest at a BART station was posted on YouTube.

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police have released a composite sketch of a man believed to have killed at least 11 people since 1985. The sketch released Tuesday was originally compiled in 1988 after a woman who survived a brutal assault gave a description ...

The city ordered a controversial new bikini espresso stand in Bellevue's Crossroads neighborhood to shut down today unless it stopped using an unauthorized drive-through lane.