From left: Paul A. Slough, Dustin L. Heard, Nicholas A. Slatten and Evan S. Liberty.
Four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors were convicted Wednesday on charges stemming from a deadly 2007 shooting in Iraq.
Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, seen here in July, has been promoting a roster of 46 House-passed jobs bills that Republicans say could finally make it to President Obama’s desk if voters put them in charge of the Senate.
Anticipating a takeover of Congress, Republicans have assembled an economic agenda that reflects their small-government philosophy, but leaves many economists underwhelmed.
Mr. Bradlee, a quintessential newspaper editor, supervised The Washington Post’s exposure of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
President Obama is meeting with his new Ebola czar, while big-name Republicans are barnstorming battleground states. But many in Washington will be remembering a journalism legend.
Races in Connecticut, Colorado, Florida and Kansas are neck and neck with less than two weeks to go before Election Day, according to new polls released Wednesday.
With every passing week or month, it seems, some American government agency has had a misstep or scandal that has led to a deeply eroded public confidence.
The success of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in reversing the Bush administration’s emphasis on trying terrorism suspects in secret prisons or at offshore military tribunals may be one of his most significant achievements.
Do you have a question about money and politics? Which candidate has raised the most money, or spent the most? Which “super PAC” had the most successful cycle?
From every angle, campaigns for Democratic and Republican candidates are targeting voters concerned about energy and climate change.
A day after a grand jury disclosed that it had indicted Michael G. Hubbard on 23 felony ethics charges, Mr. Hubbard denounced the prosecution as being rooted in matters beyond the law.
The debate between Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist illustrated just how diametrically opposed the two men are stylistically and on almost every issue.
Allison M. Macfarlane, the panel’s first geologist, said she would become the director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy at George Washington University.
David Cohen, a Treasury under secretary, discusses the battle to choke off the flow of illicit revenue to the Islamic State.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has visited the city and other parts of Erie County dozens of times while in office, pledging support to revitalize Buffalo.
Representative Michael G. Grimm, a Staten Island Republican currently seeking re-election, faces federal fraud charges related to a Manhattan restaurant he ran.
A report showed that misdemeanor arrests for marijuana possession were about as frequent as last year, and that many involved “openly displaying” minuscule amounts of pot.
Roy Cho has portrayed Representative Scott Garrett, a sixth-term incumbent in a suburban district, as only a reluctant supporter of relief funds two years ago.
The state joined several other conservative states in allowing same-sex marriage after recent court rulings have struck down state bans as unconstitutional.
Gov. Tom Corbett signed into law Tuesday a measure he said would curb the “obscene celebrity” cultivated by convicts at the expense of victims.
A way of life is eroding as small towns hemorrhage younger residents, a potent but unpredictable undercurrent in a closely fought Senate race.
Through a clever bit of photo manipulation, a new ad by the N.R.A. puts Iowa’s Democratic Senate nominee, Bruce Braley, next to the man many gun owners consider their nemesis: Michael R. Bloomberg.
Oscar de la Renta and Hillary Rodham Clinton became fast friends.
A new study on politics and media – including social media – sheds some fresh light on how the political echo chamber is reverberating online.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey reverted to his blunt style in a speech in Washington on Tuesday, offering a fiercer and more partisan perspective than he has on behalf of Republican candidates.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, argues for changing some of the Senate’s rules of procedure in the latest installment of our video series about fixing Washington.
The tools to target the most valuable segments of the electorate are slowly being put to use.
A study found that an increase in ads in state supreme court races meant a higher chance of rulings against criminal defendants.
Republicans’ use of illegal immigration as an issue in several Senate campaigns is raising questions about what the party wants to be in the longer term.
Party leaders have conceded the futility of a flight ban from Ebola-afflicted West Africa, but are pressing to suspend visas and create “no boarding” lists.
Officials determined that it was no longer necessary to imprison Muhammed Murdi Issa al Zahrani at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where he has been held for more than 12 years.
A group of motel owners challenged a Los Angeles law that allows the police to inspect hotel and motel guest registries without permission from a judge.
Despite all the furor connected to last year’s rollout of the health insurance marketplace, few people are aware that a new deadline is on the way.
Many people still feel a lack of opportunity as wage growth remains stagnant.
Staff Sgt. James F. Burns in Baghdad in 2004.
The Pentagon kept silent as munitions left over from Saddam Hussein’s war with Iran found new targets from 2004 to 2011: American and Iraqi troops.
In hopes of preserving control of the United States Senate, Democratic candidates are keeping their distance from President Obama’s best policies, but that’s a risk.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s re-election campaign veered far south of New York, as he made a symbolic, if brief, trip to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
The appointment of Justice Leslie E. Stein on Friday gave the Court of Appeals a liberal majority for the first time in more than a decade.
Representative Michael G. Grimm and his challenger, Domenic M. Recchia Jr., largely played to type, at times appearing to relish the event’s devolution into shouting.
We want to know: Do you plan to vote in this year’s midterm election? If so, what issues are important to you and why? And if you don’t plan to vote, why not?
The capital is rapidly gaining in cozy neighborhood dining spots with distinctive food.
The party, which aims to control both houses of Congress next year, can learn from the Senate election battle in North Carolina.
Economic anxiety amid a dwindling oil and gas industry is raising difficult questions about the future. It is also shaping a Senate race in which a Democrat is seeking re-election in a state long dominated by Republicans.
Create and share your own forecast for who will win the midterm elections.
More than 12 years after the Bush administration first sent detainees to the prison in Cuba, tensions are mounting over whether President Obama can close it before leaving office.
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