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President Barack Obama's approval ratings for handling foreign policy issues generally top his ratings for most domestic issues, including the economy and health care, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Nevada's brothel industry came into the crosshairs of Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn's annual " Wastebook " - a year-end hit list of programs he says epitomize financial excess in the federal budget.

Latham, 65, from Clive, will have spent 20 years in Congress and is Iowa's senior U.S. House member.

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf will not seek an 18th term in Congress, he announced Tuesday, giving up the seat he's held since Ronald Reagan was president.

Democrats used their newly initiated lower threshold for defeating filibusters Monday to win Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nomination of former top Pentagon lawyer Jeh C. Johnson to be secretary of homeland security.

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Kentucky's U.S. senators and its five Republican congressmen have inserted themselves into a Supreme Court case, filing a legal brief that challenges environmental regulations on coal-fired power plants.

The Obama administration should make any diplomatic agreement with Iran contingent on Tehran's help finding missing CIA contractor Robert Levinson, a lawyer for his family said Monday.

Republican leaders and several hard-right groups are displaying the classic signs of a political divorce, including bitter name-calling and reprisals against one another.

Bipartisan legislation to soften across-the-board spending cuts gained ground among Senate Republicans on Monday and Democrats expressed optimism it would gain the 60 votes needed to pass by week's end.

The House Ethics Committee is launching a formal investigation into a Florida congressman who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor cocaine possession charge last month.

Once a solidly Republican bastion of Northern snowbirds and conservative retirees, this stretch of coastal beach towns and sprawling subdivisions has moved toward the political middle.

The fired chief of staff for Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander will live with his parents in Maryland and be electronically monitored while he awaits prosecution on charges of possession and attempted distribution of child... An experimental drug is showing promise against a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer.

In this Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 file image taken from video and released by WJLA TV, U.S. Postal police walk with Ryan Loskarn, center, in Washington.

Members of Congress want the Obama administration to demand that U.S. allies back away from proposed restrictions on international data transmissions, saying those actions could hurt U.S. companies.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Vietnam pressing the communist country on democratic and economic reforms and offering U.S. assistance to protect its maritime borders.

After a huge tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs this spring and demolished two elementary schools, killing seven children, a longtime legislator thought the time was ripe for the state to act on a well-known problem.

In this photo provided by Jamey Jacob, Zac Zaloudek, left, Fred Keating, seated, and Ryan Gifford, engineering students at Oklahoma State University, track an unmanned aerial vehicle on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, at OSU's unmanned aircraft flight station in Stillwater, Okla.

Gov. Scott Walker praised fellow Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan on Sunday for the congressman's role in brokering a bipartisan budget bill that's been blasted by a number of conservatives.

Sen. John McCain suggested on Sunday that the CIA has not been forthcoming with the Congress on details about an American who disappeared while on a secret intelligence mission to Iran.