The Republican chairman of the House oversight panel is asking a veteran diplomat and a former chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff for sworn testimony about their investigation into the deaths of four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she supports a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, but feels her predecessors' landmark Roe v. Wade ruling 40 years ago was too sweeping and gave abortion opponents a symbol to target.
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking.
Kansas City officials hope a new single-terminal airport will bring in more passengers and flights. Recent terminal projects in other cities show that’s not a sure thing. But some experts say other airports are poised for growth while KCI could get left behind.
Can we agree on this? Americans still think alike much of the time even if our politicians don't.
New Jersey governor and prospective Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie’s struggles to lose weight have become part of his public persona.
The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for what it acknowledges was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul opened his presidential exploration tour Friday with a splashy set of speaking engagements in Iowa designed to broaden his tea party brand into something more mainstream and, perhaps, viable.
Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats.
The general who commands the nation's nuclear forces said Thursday he has ordered further review of failings discovered among Air Force officers who operate nuclear missiles. But he told Congress he was not alarmed by their shortcomings.
A House Republican and Democrat are pushing a bill that would strip the authority of military officers to overturn convictions for major offenses such as sexual assault.
A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, with a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Mark Sanford is headed back to Congress after trouncing Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch with 54 percent of the votes, a 9 percentage point victory that dashed predictions of a close race.
Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent weight-loss surgery in February at the urging of his family, spokesman Michael Drewniak told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The father of four agreed to the surgery, in which a band was placed around his stomach to restrict the amount of food he can eat, after turning 50 in September.
They are young, often low-ranking service members out on the weekend in the late hours. Sometimes they've been drinking. Often those who sexually assault them are in the armed forces, too. But in the vast majority of military sexual assault cases, the victim chooses not to report the attack. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri (pictured) is among the legislators stepping up the drive to curb these assaults.
Former President Bill Clinton says speculating about his wife's political future is a waste of time and the nation needs to be more focused on the big problems.
Secretary of State John Kerry is making his case to Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia to take a tougher stance on Syria at a time when Israel's weekend air strikes against the beleaguered Mideast nation have added an unpredictable factor to the talks.
It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay.
Immigration, guns and national security are dominating the discussion on Capitol Hill, but Americans by and large are still focused on their bottom line. So President Barack Obama is launching a series of quick jaunts around the country to remind Americans he's still got jobs and the economy on his mind.
Lobbyists seeking to influence state laws have spent $380,000 feeding, entertaining and giving gifts to legislators in the first three months of this year.
A 2010 research paper by a pair of Harvard professors said too much public debt seriously undermines growth. But now a school of thought gaining momentum by the day suggests that going lean is the wrong way to go.
In pushing new state constitutional protections for gun rights, Missouri lawmakers have managed to stir fear they could also inadvertently cause a flood of lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of current criminal laws regulating gun possession.
Strong tax revenue figures for April could be the last straw for already struggling efforts to extend a higher sales tax in Kansas. But Gov. Sam Brownback and the Republican-led state Senate aren’t buying.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he’d redouble efforts on a failed first-term campaign promise to close the prison for terrorism suspects at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Even as the White House said it still lacked proof that Syria unleashed chemical weapons against its people, President Barack Obama on Monday raised the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to reach out one of Syria’s key allies.
President Barack Obama will tap Charlotte, N.C., mayor Anthony Foxx as the new secretary of transportation on Monday, a White House official said Sunday, refusing to be named because the announcement is not yet official.
A debate is brewing over the site of an Obama presidential library, one that primarily pits the leafy academic setting of the University of Chicago against the hardscrabble streets of the rest of the city’s South Side.
The City Council’s support for a revamped Kansas City International Airport is already encountering a public backlash. That poses the potential of a political challenge if the city seeks a vote on airport bonds in the next few years.
President Barack Obama used this year's annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner to poke fun at himself and some of his political adversaries, asking if it were still possible to be brought down a peg after four-and-a-half years as commander-in-chief. Conan O'Brien was the headlining entertainer.
In a most basic way, social media — especially Twitter — shrink the sometimes already small world of statehouse politics. There are fewer secrets. More bruised feelings. And everyone can can see story lines play out in real time from any corner of the capitol where someone has a smartphone. The influences run from subtle to pronounced.
Lawmakers say the issue is all but dead for the 2013 session, even after the Missouri governor’s vigorous campaign.
Ann Murguia missed Thursday’s swearing-in of Mark Holland, the man who defeated her in the Wyandotte County mayor’s race.
Akin said “of course” he would take back the remarks that sunk his Senate bid. He also said he won’t rule out another run for public office.
A pair of House Republicans lost their seats on a committee over their refusal to support legislation that would give the state the authority to immediately take over the troubled Kansas City Public Schools.
Kansas is to provide 20 percent of the funds for the agriculture safety lab at K-State, but some lawmakers worry about tight budgets today and higher costs in the future.
President Barack Obama and four former U.S. presidents gathered Thursday for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which houses Bush's library and museum along with his policy institute, on the campus of Southern Methodist University.
The full effect of the $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts is still unknown. Some say it won’t be bad, while others are fearing the worst.
The Kansas City Council’s public safety committee is in no hurry to make the 9 p.m. youth curfew for the Country Club Plaza and four other entertainment districts year-round. On Wednesday the Public Safety and Emergency Services Committee voted 3-1 to delay further discussion for three weeks. That would be May 15, a little more than a week before the summerlong curfew kicks in May 24.
Missouri lawmakers took another step Wednesday toward countering the massive tax cuts enacted last year in Kansas.
The Kansas governor is touring the state campaigning for higher education funding in a political battle that pits him against traditional conservative allies. Regardless of the results, the governor could emerge a victor.
