Fissures have opened within the Obama administration over the drone program targeting militants in Pakistan, with the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and some top military leaders pushing to rein in the CIA's aggressive pace of strikes.
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Employers spooked by a sputtering economy hit the brakes on May hiring, postponing the upswing needed to put 14 million unemployed back to work.
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The Justice Department is scrutinizing Google, Apple and other likely bidders for a trove of patents being sold by the bankrupt Nortel Networks amid concerns the patents could be used to unfairly hobble competitors in the wireless industry.
At least half the states have begun to rein in safety-net programs that swelled during the downturn, even as high unemployment and slow job growth persist.
A grand jury indicted former Sen. John Edwards on felony charges that he violated campaign-finance laws by accepting more than $900,000 from donors, in part to conceal an extramarital affair and resulting pregnancy.
Lawrence Eagleburger, the only career U.S. foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, died Saturday at 80 years old.
Massey Energy's investigation into a mine explosion that killed 29 workers says the blast was fueled by a natural-gas surge and not coal dust, contradicting the findings of federal regulators and an independent probe.
Friday's disappointing jobs report forced Obama to confront the prospect of facing re-election amid a frail economy, with Democrats debating the best message to take to the voters.
The Southeastern Conference voted unanimously to limit how many football players its universities can sign, following criticism of its handling of players.
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Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder vowed to put his full weight behind a proposed new bridge linking Detroit and Canada, the U.S. border crossing with the most cargo shipments, setting up a legislative battle with members of his own party.
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To cram in their many obligations—and for safety reasons—New Jersey, New York and Connecticut's chief executives get all sorts of travel benefits not available to the voters who elected them.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. will bolster its commitment to defend Southeast Asian allies and invest in technologies to counter weapons meant to keep America out of the Pacific region.
The White House will host Bahrain's crown prince next week, according to senior U.S. officials, in a bid to push for political liberalization in the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom.
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A pair of votes in the House of Representatives challenged Obama's decision to intervene in Libya's conflict, showing the rising uneasiness in Congress over U.S. military action overseas.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill that would have health-care benefits for domestic partners treated in the same way as those for a married couple.
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Alan Greenspan, a high-profile proponent of President George W. Bush's tax cuts, now says the U.S.'s debt troubles have become so worrisome that he would support going back to Clinton-era tax rates.
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Some locals in the birthplace of Nevada mining are now doing all they can to stop an actual mine from opening nearby.
They're eyesores, menaces, botanical thugs. But we shouldn't forget their virtues, especially as emblems of wild, wonderful nature.
The housing market seems to be on a never-ending downward spiral. But the long-term case for home ownership is looking stronger.
It's easy to see where Walt Frazier III got his passion for basketball: The point guard is the son of Walt "Clyde" Frazier, a Hall of Famer who led the Knicks to their only two NBA championships. Less obvious is their shared interest in real estate.
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The man who could make more than $4 billion from the IPO of Groupon is a 41-year-old, unassuming Midwesterner who got his start selling carpets on the street.
Jack Kevorkian, the pathologist whose "suicide machine" thrust the right-to-die movement into the national spotlight in the 1990s, died Friday at age 83.
Former "Gunsmoke" star James Arness died Friday at age 88.
Orlando and New York each have claimed credit as the U.S. destination with the most annual visits, but a closer look suggests it is tough to know which city deserves the top spot.
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It took a trio of veteran Disney Imagineers nearly four years to design and build a theme park ride that put visitors inside the world of animated film hit "The Little Mermaid."
In Friday's pictures, a soldier overlooks protesters at a mass funeral in Yemen, travelers gather at a horse fair in England, fire rages through an arms depot in Russia and more.
The Jack Daniel Distillery is dropping some text from its whiskey's famously wordy label. For the population of Lynchburg, what's been taken off is a real eye-opener.
Pauline Betz, who dominated U.S. women's tennis in the mid-1940s, winning the U.S. National Championship four times, has died at 91.
The 111th Congress, which convened in 2009, is among the oldest in U.S. history. See detailed data since 1948 by Congress, house and party.
Compare results of the 2010 midterm election to the 2008 House of Representatives and see how economics and the health-care vote may have affected mood in some races.
In midterm elections Nov. 2, voters handed control of the House of Representatives to the Republican Party. See how race, gender, key issues and other factors affected voters' choices and compare to 2008 presidential exit polls.
Track state-by-state results at the district and county levels for House, Senate and governors' races. Also, access full lower-level race data.