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Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.

The way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government, and Senators should push through changes to the rules that allow obstructionism.

A recent study by Pew Research found little support for the extremist Islamic organizations Hamas and Hezbollah in the Muslim world. Hamas sees mostly negative ratings among Palestinians.

President Obama moved to jump-start the stalled health-care debate Sunday, inviting Republicans in Congress to participate in a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on the subject this month.

President Barack Obama said Sunday he has not ruled out a New York federal court trial for Sept. 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but he was taking into account the objections of the city's mayor and police commissioner.

Barack Obama last night set the American presidential seal of approval on Northern Ireland's political breakthrough by commending those involved

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said he supports President Obama's goal of making the space industry a commercial venture, but is concerned about potential job losses at the agency.

No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress.

To recap, the European Union is comprised of 27 sovereign nations in a common trading bloc, the purpose of which is to compete as a collective more

Plaid Cymru MP Elfyn Llwyd tells the BBC he has a memo showing Tony Blair and George Bush struck a secret deal to invade Iraq a year before the war.

Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes preparing for the possibility of one, and maybe two Supreme Court vacancies this spring. Court watchers believe two of the more liberal members of the court, Justices John Paul Stevens and Ru

WASHINGTON — In the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling that ended most restrictions on corporate funding in elections, a congressional panel was asked Wednesday to enact greater limits on the influence of foreign companies in U.S. elections.

As the Tea Party's first national convention gets under way, members are united in their anger but divided over the future of the movement.

President Obama called Thursday for high-level talks with Republicans on a Democratic health care bill, then putting the resulting legislation to a vote in Congress.