With weekly jobless claims benefits at a 16-year high, the White House said Thursday that President George W. Bush would quickly sign legislation pending in Congress to provide further unemployment benefits.
As the manual recount in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race began, one volunteer judge asked the city election director what to do if she spotted a questionable ballot and no one else did.
President-elect Barack Obama is urging the United Nations chief to embark on "far-reaching reform" of the world organization to help it address pressing global issues.
Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President George W. Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for the next three years than the U.S. had ever contemplated.
With the Bush administration on the verge of relaxing regulations protecting endangered species, Democratic leaders are looking at ways to overturn any last-minute rule changes.
President-elect Barack Obama is likely to choose Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to be secretary of homeland security, top Obama advisers and several Democrats said Thursday as the shape of Obama's Cabinet begins to emerge.
Eric Holder is in line for nomination by President-elect Barack Obama to the attorney general's job that Holder has long wanted, but the 2001 episode with fugitive financier Marc Rich is stirring partisan acrimony.
Poland's foreign minister said Wednesday he is trying to determine which way President-elect Barack Obama is leaning on U.S. missile defense plans in Europe.
A Syrian facility that Israel bombed last year had similarities to a nuclear reactor and chemically processed uranium particles were found at the site, but a final determination can't be made until Syria provides "the necessary transparency," a new U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency report out Wednesday says.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a veteran of Capitol Hill and a backer of the Clinton administration's failed health-care effort of the early 1990s, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be secretary of health and human services.
The Justice Department and the New York Police Department are feuding over secret terror investigations, with the city pushing for faster approval to spy on suspects - a move that the feds charge could break the law.
Black leaders in Congress don't expect to have an especially close relationship with President-elect Barack Obama.
Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday gave their bloc a decidedly more conservative - and outspoken - tone, as they voted in new leaders who have reputations as sharp-edged partisans.
President George W. Bush embarks Friday on most likely his final foreign mission: bolstering the nose-diving economy by rallying Asia-Pacific nations behind a united response. He is expected to emerge with modest gains, but world peers are peeking ahead to Barack Obama's administration.
The Associated Press asked several interior designers to suggest Obama-style changes for the White House. Some of what they had to say about their designs via e-mail:
Michelle Obama says she wants the White House to feel full of energy.
Two aging symbols of Congress' penchant for pouring billions into lawmakers' pet projects are stepping aside next year. While that will probably do little to change Capitol Hill's culture of spending, the biggest challenge may come from an unlikely source - Barack Obama.
What does an accomplished man of the world get for his 66th birthday?
The Pentagon offered a spirited defense Wednesday of its efforts to thwart an "alarming" spate of pirate attacks off Somalia's coast, saying the world's militaries are doing more than ever against the high-seas crime.
Tom Daschle's new job as secretary of Health and Human Services would mark his return to Washington politics after a bitter Senate defeat left him searching for a way to stay involved.
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