The U.S. Congress has completed action to curb the layoffs of air traffic controllers, which have resulted in thousands of delayed flights in the last few days. The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Friday for legislation that would [...]

WASHINGTON — The debate in Congress over immigration reform has as much to do with the fate of America’s two main political parties as it does with the demographics of the United States. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are pushing [...]

NEW YORK — New York’s mayor and police commissioner told reporters Thursday that the suspects in last week’s deadly Boston bombings made a spontaneous plan to attack New York City — but said it never got beyond the talking [...]

WASHINGTON — Thursday’s dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Texas is sure to rekindle the debate over the former president’s place in history. Public opinion polls showed Bush was highly unpopular when he left office [...]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate recently rejected measures that would expand background checks on potential gun buyers, renew and strengthen a ban on military-style assault weapons and limit ammunition magazines to 10 rounds. The National Rifle [...]

LONDON — The suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon were first identified from surveillance camera images. Debate about the use of the cameras has been ongoing for many years in Britain – a country with one of the highest densities [...]

U.S. investigators have questioned the parents of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the Russian republic of Dagestan, as they try to determine what might have influenced their sons in the months before the April 15 attack. The American [...]

U.S. investigators say preliminary evidence from interviews with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suggest that he and his brother were motivated by Islamic religious extremism, but not linked to any terrorist groups. Government sources say the surviving brother [...]

A new survey of U.S. corporate economists shows that their businesses may be set to hire more workers in the coming months. The U.S. government says that American employers hired just 88,000 more workers in March after several months when more [...]

A federal official says the man charged with sending poison letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge has been released from jail. U.S. Marshals Service deputy Jeff Woodfin says Paul Kevin Curtis has been released [...]