Iraq’s Al Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for the wave of bombings and other attacks that killed dozens in Baghdad and across the country the day before.

The family of war correspondent Marie Colvin, who was killed while covering the violence in Syria, is desperately trying to find out how to get her body back from the country.

A group dedicated to reducing government secrecy gave its annual worst performance award Tuesday to the Justice Department, the agency President Barack Obamaordered in 2009 to lead his drive to open more government records to …

In its effort to reduce paper output, the U.S. Government Printing Office has developed a mobile Web application for people to review the 2013 proposed federal budget, and the agency says it received 53,000 hits …

President Obama is offering his spending blueprint for the next decade — an election-year document that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction through cuts in government spending, higher taxes and inclusion of last …

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew appeared on four separate talk shows Sunday and said that the change to the birth control mandate offered by President Barack Obama on Friday should put the issue …

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum hit back at Mitt Romney on Sunday for criticizing his conservative credentials, saying it showed the former Massachusetts governor’s desperation in the face of declining support.

While criticism surrounding Operation Fast and Furious has so far focused on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, three other federal agencies knew about the operation and some of their agents tried to stop …

For years we have been told that homosexuality is something people are born with – like the color of one’s skin – and that it can’t be changed. Gay-rights activists insist this is so, because, …

President Obama announced a compromise on Friday to the controversial contraception mandate in an attempt to appease religious groups that oppose the rule.