Impeachment

Members of Mexico’s ruling party on Sunday chose former congresswoman Josefina Vazquez Mota as their long-shot candidate for president--the first time a woman will vie for the country’s top job on behalf of a major political faction....

Mexico, United States, guns, drug war: Mexican President Felipe Calderon used a two-day visit to ultra-violent Ciudad Juarez to deliver a pointed message to the United States. Standing a stone's throw from the U.S. border, and flanked by some of his...

Reports that President Obama and House GOP leaders were closing in on a deficit-cutting deal Thursday that wouldn't necessarily increase tax revenues led Democrats to erupt like Mount Vesuvius, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) told The Washington Post. That'...

Municipal officials are breathing a little easier after receiving word that a major revenue stream will not be affected by the budget approved by state …...

Local officials have come out against the governor's proposal to withhold local government tax revenue if legislators reject a borrowing plan to pay Illinois’ bills. …...

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's White House fought and lost a battle to avoid making public what it claimed were confidential records of internal deliberations over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in...

* Inquest into Kremlin critic's 2006 poisoning in doubt * Judge partly accepts UK request to keep evidence secret * Without evidence on Russia, hearings would be unfair * Widow "utterly dismayed"; decision a "political deal" By Peter Griffiths...

WASHINGTON — Top career officials in the Internal Revenue Service withheld information from Congress for months about the tax agency's targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny, according to documents released Monday as a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The proliferation of hacking tools known as zero-day exploits is raising concerns at the highest levels in Washington, even as U.S. agencies and defense contractors have become the biggest buyers of such products. White House...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Monday whether Congress violated the 1st Amendment when it required global groups fighting AIDS to explicitly oppose prostitution and sexual trafficking as a condition of receiving federal grants. Several...

ASUNCION, April 18 (Reuters) - Paraguayans will vote for a new president on Sunday. Two center-right candidates are vying for the top job after the left's brief spell in power was cut short by the sudden impeachment of President Fernando Lugo last year....

The bright young people in student government at the Johns Hopkins University no doubt pride themselves on their openness to a diversity of views and their commitment to the free exchange of ideas. That's why the school's Student Government Association'...