While President Obama touts the new health care law everywhere he goes, many members of his party are saying just the opposite in re-election ads, making sure their constituents know they voted against the unpopular overhaul.

Attorney General Eric Holder was meeting Tuesday with Muslim and other religious leaders to discuss recent attacks on Muslims and the uproar over a planned mosque near Ground Zero in New York.

The incumbent senator says she's been inundated with calls and e-mails from supporters, asking her not to leave the race, and she's weighing her options

Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election, a stunning decision that apparently ends a political dynasty that dominated the city for more than a half century and paves the way for Rahm Emanuel to chase his dream job.

The White House says President Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon.

The Obama administration's latest get-the-economy-out-of-its-rut proposal will create jobs "immediately," the president says -- so long as immediately doesn't mean this year. 

It may look like a second stimulus and smell like a second stimulus, but President Obama insists that's no way to describe the new set of initiatives he's introducing this week in his latest effort to boost the flagging economy.

The State Department described as "un-American" plans by a controversial church to burn Korans in memory of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks -- though the head of that church says he is not deterred. 

Condoleezza Rice advised President Bush to stay away from Washington in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by raising her voice in a heated exchange and hanging up the phone, the former national security adviser revealed in a documentary interview.

A new wave of polls and projections capping the Labor Day weekend shows voters are souring, perhaps irreversibly, toward the idea of giving Democrats another chance at shaping the agenda in Washington. 

The questioner who triggered an Internet-sensation retort from Rep. Barney Frank at a town hall meeting last year is challenging the 15-term Democrat's re-election bid. 

In an honor that could be misinterpreted as a slap in the face, a Los Angeles school district has named a new academy after Al Gore -- the only problem is the school was built on toxic soil. 

The U.S. government's financial commitment to Afghanistan is likely to linger and reach into the billions long after it pulls combat troops from the country, newly disclosed spending estimates show. 

A Florida church's plan to burn Korans on Sept. 11 isn't doing the troops in Afghanistan any favors, Gen. David Petraeus said Monday.

An accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton's National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping -- and may not even survive, The New York Post has learned.

The proposal, to allow businesses to write off 100 percent of new investment in plant and equipment, tops a raft of announcements, from a proposed expansion of the research and experimentation tax credit to $50 billion in additional spending on roads, railways and runways

The biggest battle of all will be over what to do about the Bush tax cuts, most of which expire at the end of the year

Sean Duffy was supposed to be the 2010 Republican sacrificial lamb running against one of the U.S. House's longest-serving liberal lions, Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., but instead could face Democrat Julie Lassa.