Nearly half of the federal government’s firefighting air tankers are siting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother …

New “partnership” agreements that U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis signed with a number of Latin American nations are aimed at protecting both legal and illegal workers in this country by educating employers and workers about …

The Veterans of Foreign Wars convention this week will not feature a top-tier official from the Obama administration, a breach in tradition that the group’s commander described as an “insult of the highest magnitude.”

Former U.S. President George W. Bush will keynote a summit next month on fighting global extremism, organizers announced Monday.

Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson has been reassigned to a lesser post in the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney for Arizona was also pushed out Tuesday as fallout from Operation Fast and Furious reached …

Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald is planning to run for the U.S. Senate, but likely won’t make it official until October.

Apparently, just setting foot in Texas imbued Mitt Romney with a bit of that Lone Star swagger.

If there’s anything close to a political certainty in 2012, it’s that Barack Obamawill get more than 90 percent of the African-American vote.

GOP candidate Rick Perry continued his assault on the Washington establishment Saturday when he told a crowd in Iowa that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and a “monstrous lie” for young people.

Michele Bachmann, who extended her weekend Florida outreach into Monday, spoke freely about her conversion to Christianity, her parents’ divorce and losing a child through miscarriage as she urged a group of conservatives to spend …