Mike Dorning

David Jacobson, a Chicago attorney who was a top fundraiser for Barack Obama and organized an influential technology networking forum during the dot-com boom, has been chosen as U.S. ambassador...

The Obama administration is digging deep into the tax code to find ways to help pay for its ambitious plans to cut taxes for middle-income families and small businesses while...

When Americans learned last week that unemployment had reached its highest level in a quarter-century, President Barack Obama was midway through a star turn in Europe. And next week, with...

The nation's unemployment rate surged to the highest level in a quarter-century last month and, despite signs that the economic crisis might be near bottom, hundreds of thousands more Americans...

An invitation to the White House could soon be on the way to your e-mail inbox. A real one. For the first time, the White House is giving away tickets...

Confronted with anticipated legal bills of upwards of $400,000, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) is setting up a defense fund to solicit contributions to defray the costs of his struggle to...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was interviewed Wednesday by the Senate Ethics Committee in its investigation of Sen. Roland Burris, appointed by now-ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill the Senate...

In Washington, proximity to power is the name of the game?and nowhere more so than within the White House, the ultimate seat of power. Above all other amenities?corner offices, stunning...