Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is telling Congress that China's increasingly sophisticated military is pursuing "new historic missions" that go beyond its traditional role of defending the homeland. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to announce $3 billion in private sector pledges aimed at alleviating hunger in Africa and urge the world's biggest economies to make good on their own financial promises. (...)

The House is debating a $642 billion defense budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 that adds billions of dollars to President Barack Obama's spending blueprint and rejects several of his proposals. The White House has threatened a veto. A look at some of the bill's disputed provisions: (...)

The House is debating a $642 billion defense budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 that adds billions of dollars to President Barack Obama's spending blueprint and rejects several of his proposals. The White House has threatened a veto. A look at some of the bill's disputed provisions: (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A showdown looms in the House over whether to end the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A showdown looms in the House over whether to end the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama's relationship with France, it's out with "Sarkozy the American" and in with Francois Hollande the Socialist. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers intensified their efforts on Thursday to get quick congressional action on heading off automatic tax increases and revamping the federal tax code. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers intensified their efforts on Thursday to get quick congressional action on heading off automatic tax increases and revamping the federal tax code. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are intensifying their demands for quick congressional action on the tax code. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are intensifying their demands for quick congressional action on the tax code. (...)

HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he's not afraid to lose the historic recall election he faces in less than three weeks, but if he wins he intends to govern in a more inclusive, consensus-building way. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the U.S. and Pakistan have decided to "reach a conclusion" to their standoff over Pakistan's blockade of a key supply route. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized products. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized products. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is moving to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized ones. (...)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has declared a Haqqani network communications official and an alleged Taliban money launderer as global terrorists. (...)