US House of Representatives News

Iran's leader got a welcoming bear hug from the Brazilian president, who urged Western nations to drop threats of punishment over the Iranian nuclear program and instead negotiate a fair solution.

Two Senate leaders trying to steer a pair of President Barack Obama's high-stakes initiatives through Congress are being dogged by re-election worries, and it's not clear whether their legislative prominence will help or hurt them.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Lucas County convicted murderer Willie Knighten Jr. will be home for Thanksgiving thanks to Gov.

U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore confirmed Monday a decision not to seek a seventh term in 2010.

Boeing's decision to build an assembly plant in South Carolina for its new 787 Dreamliner could spark development of the state's defense industry.

Suddenly, the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag. Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding.

A researcher says a "cultural mismatch" between teachers and students is partly to blame for a huge racial disparity in Illinois school discipline.

Residents from the seven-county area surrounding the Thomson, Ill, prison would be "excellent candidates" for up to 1,400 of the jobs generated in the deal's first year, according to the report by the president's Council of Economic Advisers.

U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin has married Oklahoma City attorney Wade Christensen. The Oklahoman newspaper reports the couple married Saturday at an Oklahoma City church in a ceremony attended only by family.

Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.

A Democratic senator says moderates in his party shouldn't be allowed to dictate the terms of the health care debate and that the final bill should include a government-run option for Americans lacking insurance.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy says Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has barred him from receiving communion because of his support of abortion rights.

House Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton on Friday said the Obama administration may be making a big mistake by trying in U.S. criminal courts the men accused of planning the Sept.

SUPPORTERS of Taiwan in the US Congress on Friday pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would almost certainly anger China.

Annapolis, Md. -- As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is an "unworthy partner" who does not deserve a big boost either in U.S. troops or civilian aid, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

Patrick said Capuano has the experience. Governor Deval Patrick is remaining neutral in his party's ongoing four-way primary for US Senate, but neutrality only goes so far in the Patrick home: the governor's wife, Diane, plans today to endorse US Representative Michael E. Capuano for the Senate seat.

Two congressional Republicans say federal prosecutors rushed into a settlement with a nonprofit operated by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.

Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.

For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around the country.