WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Committee Chairman renewed efforts Wednesday to obtain names of current and former federal, state and local policymakers — including congressional colleagues — who received sweetheart Mortgage deals from…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama won a showdown vote Wednesday in the GOP-controlled House to kill a costly alternative engine for the Pentagon’s next-generation fighter jet. The win by Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has won a showdown vote in the GOP-controlled House to kill a costly alternative engine for the Pentagon’s next-generation fighter jet. The vote is a switch from where the House stood last year …

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee has approved eliminating a program that subsidizes air service to small airports, often in remote communities. The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted 34-25, mostly along party lines, for the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama wants a civil and reasonable discussion with Republicans as he negotiates reductions in Social Security and Medicare spending. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans say a government report concluding the near financial meltdown of 2008 was avoidable was an ideological exercise by Democrats, not an objective study. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission reported its f…

LONDON (AP) — An Iraqi who has been identified as a key source for the U.S. case for war in Iraq says he is proud that he lied about his country developing mobile biological warfare labs. The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesd…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans have called a halt to a marathon public hearing on their plan to strip almost all public workers of their Collective Bargaining rights. The hearing in front of the Legislature’s finance commit…