With briefcase in hand and a smile on his face, Attorney General Michael Mukasey returned to work Friday after collapsing during a speech the night before and spurring a 14-hour scare about his health.
A recount watchdog for Norm Coleman flagged a ballot because the voter put a check next to Al Franken's name instead of blacking in the oval. A Franken monitor challenged an apparent vote for Coleman because Franken's name was also marked. And representatives of both men invoked challenges because of marks elsewhere on the ballot that could make them identifiable.
President-elect Barack Obama has waded into Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff, recording a radio ad supporting Democrat Jim Martin, but there's still no word on whether the president-elect will make a personal appearance.
Representative Henry Waxman, an advocate for pollution controls, won the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday, ousting auto-industry ally John Dingell of Michigan.
Three blocks from the White House, on the 10th floor of a sleek glass building, young workers pound at comp...
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska ended his four-decade congressional career Thursday, ushered out by his Senate c...
President-elect Barack Obama is likely to choose Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to be secretary of homeland ...
As the manual recount in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race began, one volunteer judge asked the city election di...
In two undecided open-seat House races, both candidates are playing Congress member-elect this week.
John McCain scored a narrow victory over President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri, putting the states statu...
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a veteran of Capitol Hill and a backer of the Clinton administra...
Former President Bill Clinton has agreed to publicly disclose the names of most donors to his presidential ...
Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday gave their bloc a decidedly more conservative -- a...
John McCain scored a narrow victory over President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri, putting the states statu...
Sen. Ted Stevens conceded the election for U.S. Senate to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich on Wednesday, bringin...
Standing in front of the big screen in the Kendall sports bar, Democrat Joe Garcia congratulated U.S. Rep. ...
Miami's trio of Cuban-American Republican congress members survived their toughest challenge yet on Tuesday...
Democratic efforts to target Miami's three Cuban-American Republican members of Congress fell short despite...
The contest between Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Raul Martinez has been billed as the battle of the titans,...
The race Tuesday for Florida's 25th congressional seat pits incumbent Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and...
Popular Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen faces her first serious challenger in 19 years in political new...
Democrats believe they have their best shot ever at toppling three of South Florida's Republican Congress m...
Raul Martinez, the former Hialeah mayor who is running for Congress, denounced incumbent Republican Rep. Li...
Thousands of dollars continue to flow into South Florida's three hard-fought congressional races, underscor...
A trio of congressional contests billed as a referendum on Miami's evolving Cuban-American community have l...
Congressional candidates Joe Garcia and Annette Taddeo criticized their GOP opponents for not helping war v...
Many more Floridians voted for John McCain on Election Day, but Barack Obama sealed his victory in the stat...
State legislators welcomed new members and elected new leaders but faced continuing budget challenges broug...
Acknowledging the state's challenging fiscal crisis, Florida legislators voted in two new Republican leader...
The Florida Elections Canvassing Commission needed just 13 days to certify the presidential election results.
As both parties lick their election wounds, there's no shortage of criticism and advice within Republican a...
Dueling social-science testimony marked a trial over a gay North Miami man's petition to adopt his two fost...
Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer is being asked to answer to an audit of party books amid que...
The incoming state Senate president patched up a two-year rift by naming a former rival to a powerful commi...
Miami-Dade officials will publicly discuss how the 2002-approved transit tax failed to deliver its promises...
Miami commissioners launched a foreclosure prevention program, while also speeding up capital improvement p...
Gov. Sarah Palin took center stage in the last day of a GOP governors conference where leaders asked themse...
President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, a...
A former GOP lobbyist with ties to Jack Abramoff may be moving toward a plea agreement with the Justice Dep...
Two more senior managers at the Ohio agency where computers were used to dig up information about "Joe the ...
She's been a mother, a lawyer and a first lady, an aggrieved wife, a U.S. senator and a nearly victorious c...
New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner is expected to be President-elect Barack Obama's c...
Two employees of the Interior Department have been fired and eight others disciplined in a scandal over the...
While President-elect Barack Obama publicly sidelined himself during congressional debate over an auto indu...
Senate Democrats are inching close to the magic number of 60, the number of votes that are needed to cut of...
The Associated Press on Friday lifted its suspension on the use of photos provided by the U.S. military aft...
Barack Obama, who threatened during the presidential campaign to withdraw from the North American Free Trad...
On the same day that American voters elected Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States, Bolivian...
Obama, Democrats should support deal with close ally
Government opponents rejected a vote recount that on Thursday confirmed the ruling party's candidate won a ...
Nicaragua's main opposition party said local elections swept by President Daniel Ortega's leftist Sandinist...
An attorney who has defended bankers and businessmen in some of Mexico's highest-profile cases rose to the ...
Uruguay's Senate voted Tuesday to allow abortion during the first trimester - a rare step in a Latin Americ...
Following a day of political violence that swept across the capital and other parts of the country after bo...
Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista party claimed victory Monday in nationwide municipal elections, but rival par...
The Miami trial of a Venezuelan businessman, which ended last week with his conviction, provided a rare opp...
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