All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that it remains the goal of U.S. troops to capture Osama bin Laden alive and "bring him to justice." The comment by Gen.

Disgruntled Colorado voters in both major parties rejected political insiders in straw poll results at caucuses around the state that exposed deep unease with two Senate candidates seen as favored by Washington party bigwigs.

Rep. Steny Hoyer speaks during the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act support reception at the Hart Building on January 27, 2010 in Washington DC.

Financial institutions and their allies mobilized lobbyists and fueled their media campaigns Tuesday in a swift response to a Democratic plan to rein in Wall Street and protect consumers in their banking and borrowing transactions.

With time and tempers short, everyone's playing hardball in the drive to pass - or stop - President Barack Obama's massive health care legislation by the weekend.

A Sri Lankan man walks past a wall pasted with posters of the defeated presidential candidate and the former military chief Sarath Fonseka that reads 'The only challenge,' in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16 Mar 2010 Court martial proceedings have begun in the Sri Lankan capital against the former army chief who challenged the incumbent president in this ...

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration's fierce denunciation of Israel last week has ignited a firestorm in Congress and among powerful pro-Israel interest groups who say the criticism of America's top Mideast ally was misplaced.

President Obama, displaying new urgency in the final days of the health care debate, sought yesterday to rally skittish House lawmakers into voting for his signature health care overhaul, calling for political "courage'' in the capital.

The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.

John McCain and Sarah Palin will campaign together in Arizona next week. It will be their first public appearance together since they conceded the presidential election in Phoenix in 2008.

Usually out of the national spotlight, state legislative races are taking on new prominence this year.

Paul Goulet hopes Connecticut will help him get from under nearly $8,000 he's borrowed for college after losing his job in a paper manufacturing plant.

China is once again the country Congress loves to hate. After a lull last year, U.S. politicians jockeying ahead of crucial November elections have stepped up attacks on China as a way to win support from voters worried that the Asian power is taking American jobs.

The senator trying to rewrite the nation's financial industry rules is dropping plans to create a stand-alone consumer financial protection agency and give a single regulator the power to oversee all banks, according to people familiar with the evolving proposal.