WASHINGTON -- With a wide grin and a quick step, letter carrier Kenny Clark brings more than the day's mail to the people on his route in suburban Maryland. Clark, 49, greets nearly everyone he sees by name. He puts packages under eaves on overcast d ...

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said Friday. Organizations were ...

President Obama practiced golf cart, not shuttle, diplomacy as he and three U.S. senators played a bipartisan round of golf at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Obama, who has been meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats in less formal set ...

DALLAS - Presidents past and present lionized one of their own Thursday, putting politics aside as President George W. Bush dedicated the library that documents his place in history. President Barack Obama praised his predecessor's strength and resol ...

Washington - Redundant federal programs in 162 areas are wasting billions of dollars, congressional auditors say, and the government is slow to adopt changes to fix the problem. The White House says President Obama recognizes the problem and will pro ...

[caption id="attachment_13098" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]President Obama and a divided Congress kick off a week of jockeying over the federal budget as House Republicans and Senate Democrats unveil competing fiscal bluepri ...

[caption id="attachment_4977" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]A screener at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport failed to find the fake bomb hidden in an undercover agent's pants, officials say. Sources told the Ne ...

The Transportation Security Administration is going to let travelers carry small knives and some sports equipment aboard passenger planes for the first time since 2001, which airline attendants say will make flights more dangerous for them and for pa ...

[caption id="attachment_21538" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]By default and past experience, what slim hope remains to relieve the declared federal fisheries disaster before it consumes the surviving core of the groundfishing ...

A federal program subsidizing phones for the poor increased from 6.8 million to 18 million recipients from 2008 -- the year it was expanded to include cell phones -- to May 2012. And fraud and abuse from the expansion have been far more extensive tha ...