James Oliphant

Reporting from West Des Moines, Iowa-- In the wake of a bottom-feeder finish in the Iowa GOP caucuses, Michele Bachmann ended a presidential bid Wednesday that once held so much...

A Chicago woman came forward today to accuse presidential hopeful Herman Cain of groping her while the two were in a car 14 years ago while Cain was the head...

Six Republican contenders chasing Mitt Romney largely sidestepped the chance to take shots at the nominal early front-runner during the first significant debate of the 2012 presidential race. Going into...

In this season of good cheer and glad tidings, Congress has become one mean place. Angering Democrats, Republicans recently invoked a rarely used rule that required reading legislation aloud on...

The White House and several advocacy groups banded together Thursday in an attempt to pacify liberals who are furious about compromises in the Senate health care legislation. They said the...

-- The White House announced Tuesday that in addition to using Illinois' Thomson prison to hold terror suspects, it plans to conduct military tribunals for detainees there. The disclosure came...

-- While Republicans on Tuesday largely were supportive of President Barack Obama's decision to commit 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, some expressed grave doubts about his pledge to draw down...

Q.Will abortions be covered by the health care legislation, as it stands now? A. The House health care bill passed this month includes a provision that would bar the government-run...

For the moment, at least, the conservative insurgency in upstate New York can claim a victory. The moderate Republican candidate in a special congressional election, Dede Scozzafava, dropped out of...

A confidential document by the House Ethics Committee, inadvertently made available to The Washington Post, sheds new light on an investigation of the relationship between a powerful House subcommittee and...