Janet Hook

President Barack Obama and Senate Democratic leaders, propelled by news of the biggest one-month job losses in 35 years, on Friday hammered out a deal that clears the way for...

With the economy still spiraling downward and the political landscape in flux, the Senate on Monday opened debate on an $885 billion stimulus plan that faces bipartisan questions about whether...

The Obama administration is working on a comprehensive recovery strategy to address the escalating crisis in the financial system, the rising tide of home foreclosures and the need to jump-start...

Kennedy seizure: Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who is battling brain cancer, was stricken by a seizure at a post-inaugural lunch with President Barack Obama and members of Congress on Tuesday....

There may be more than one gaffe-meister in the Biden family. Vice President-elect Joe Biden's wife told Oprah Winfrey on Monday that her husband had been offered a choice between...

Only a few weeks ago, congressional leaders talked of approving a huge stimulus package by Inauguration Day. But the drive for quick action has become entangled in the push and...

When money manager Bernard Madoff was arrested in New York this month on charges of engineering a massive Ponzi scheme, Wall Street financiers were left slack-jawed at the unmasking of...

Barack Obama has long presented himself as a hybrid, at once a liberal advocate and a postpartisan bridge-builder, a romantic out to change the world and a canny pragmatist grounded...

A Republican-controlled Senate committee dealt a blow to President Bush's national security agenda Thursday, approving a bill that expands the legal rights afforded to terrorism detainees. The rebuke capped a...