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The Obama administration has extended the $700 billion financial bailout program until October, setting up a struggle between Democrats and Republicans.

Amid soaring budget deficits, President Barack Obama is running into congressional qualms over how to pay for his troop buildup in Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama will address the nation on his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

In her first interview since her husband's death, Vicki Kennedy will appear on Winfrey's television talk show Wednesday.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed U.S. District Judge David Hamilton for the Chicago-based federal appeals court, approving a nominee targeted by conservatives as a liberal activist.

The former GOP vice presidential candidate may fashion herself as a go-it-alone maverick, but her book is producing a crowd.

Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections.

Newly released tapes from the Vietnam War era portray President John F. Kennedy wrestling over the fate of South Vietnam's strongman, similar to Obama's Afghan quandary today.

U.S. spy agencies spent $49.8 billion in fiscal year 2009, $2 billion more than in 2008 and the second such multibillion-dollar increase in as many years.

The 97-year-old mother of U.S. Senator John McCain spent the night in a Lisbon hospital after a fall, Portuguese health officials and the senator's office said Friday.